Data: Cutting the costs of coastal protection: how vegetation reduces global flood hazard

File: levee_crest_height_reduction_per_country_version_April2021.nc
Fields:     (1) Crest height reduction m per km along the populated coastline susceptible to flooding (return period = 100 years)
                (2) Crest height reduction cost saving per country in billion USD2005 along the populated coastline susceptible to flooding (return period = 100 years)
           (3) Cost savings as percentage of GDP along the urban populated coastline susceptible to flooding (return period = 100 years)

File: transectdata_version_April2021.nc
 Transectdata of vegetated transects within the study area.
Fields: 
(1) rps             = return period            
(2) fid             = id of the transects
(3) centroids       = coordinates of the transects
(4) inun            = (1) in area susceptible to flooding
(5) urban           = (1) in urban area, (0) not in urban area
(6) veg_width       = derived vegetation width along the foreshore
(7) veg_type        = derived vegetation type along the foreshore (1: salt marshes, 2: mangroves)
(8) hsig            = Offshore significant wave heights (multiple return periods) corresponding to the transects
(9) wave period     = Offshore peak wave period (multiple return periods) corresponding to the transects
(10) surge          = Extreme water level combination of surge and tide (m +MSL) (multiple return periods)
(11) veg_z0         = elevation at the start of the vegetated zone (m +MSL)
(12) hrms_end_noveg = root mean square wave height at the end of the foreshore (without vegetation) (multiple return periods)
(13) hrms_endveg       = root mean square wave height at the end of the foreshore (with vegetation) (multiple return periods) 
(14) pdens_15km        = population density derived using buffer of 15 kilometre radius