Dataset documentation Sediment atlas wadden sea

Sediment Atlas Wadden Sea data in OpenEarth:

1. Raw data + scripts (ascii + Matlab)
   • Sediment Atlas WaddenZee executable, with option to export grain size distributions as txt file.
     http://www.waddenzee.nl/ > http://www.waddenzee.nl/fileadmin/mydocs/nieuwsarchief/1998/Onderzoek_en_Monitoring/Sediment-atlas.html
     The original file has been removed from the internet, and original institute has ceased to exist, parts of it merged into Deltares. Deltares now hosts the original data as part of OpenEarth:
   • Raw ascii data + Matlab tools for conversion to netCDF
     https://svn.oss.deltares.nl/repos/openearthrawdata/trunk/rijkswaterstaat/sedimentatlas_waddenzee/ (register at oss.deltares.nl)
2. Standardized data (netCDF on OPeNDAP)
   • http://opendap.deltares.nl/thredds/catalog/opendap/rijkswaterstaat/sedimentatlas_waddenzee/catalog.html
3. Visualized data (kml)
   • color dots with mud content: http://dtvirt5.deltares.nl/kml/rijkswaterstaat/sedimentatlas_waddenzee/
   • with pop-ups with grain size curves: http://kml.deltares.nl/kml/rijkswaterstaat/sedimentatlas_waddenzee/sed_distr_and_mud_content_in_waddensea_incl_png.kmz (50 MB!)

See also

• NIOZ SIBES (Synoptic Intertidal Benthic Survey ) report "synoptic intertidal benthic surveys across the dutch wadden sea 2008 to 2011" for NAM (pdf)
• vanHeuvel_1991_Sedimenttransport in het Eems-Dollard estuarium volgens de methode McLaren.pdf
• waddenzee_mclaren_steyaert_powys.pdf

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