A complete database of Black Sea beaches have been digitalized in Google Earth Pro Application. The dataset are in shapefile format and contain an attribute table with a brief description of the surrounding environment (geometry of the beach, information on images used, presence or absence of wave and/or river, and an appreciation of the sediment size) and percentages of beach's surface loss estimated by the lowest and the highest retreat prediction for three level rise scenarios (0.5 m, 0.82 m and 1 m).
Beach erosion vulnerability has been assessed by combining Black Sea beaches geodatabase with coastal retreat prediction induced by sea level rise scenarios.
Coastal retreat was estimated using an ensemble of 6 analytical (Edelman, 1972; Brunn, 1988; Dean, 1991) and numerical (Larson and Kraus, 1989; Leont’yev, 1996; Roelvink (Xbeach), 2010) models for a vast range of environmental condition, to better reflect the entire Black Sea basin.

The map shows the maximum beach’s surface loss in percentage induced by a sea level rise of 0.5 m (max. retreat prediction of 21.4 m).

Reference: Allenbach K., Garonna I., Herold C., Monioudi I., Giuliani G., Lehmann A., Velegrakis A. (2015) Black Sea beaches vulnerability to sea level rise. Environmental Science and Policy 46:95-109
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901114001373

ATTRIBUTES:
NAME: Code name of the beach 3 first letters are the country followed by a clock-wise numbering
ORIENT:Calculated orientation of the beach in degree
LENGTH:Calculated length of the beach in meters
MAX:Calculated maximum width of the beach in meters
MEAN:Calculated mean width of the beach in meters
AREA:Calculated area in square meters
B_NAME:Name of the beach when available

P_CODE:Code for protection description
1: Groynes, breakwaters, headlands
2: Natural coves
3: Natural beach without protection
4: Training wall
5: Seawall and revetments

FRONT: Simplified code for coast description
1 presence of vegetation
2 presence of urban
3 presence of dunes
4 presence of cliff
5 presence of agriculture
6 presence of marshlands
7 presence of water
ex: 123 presence of vegetation-urban-dune

RIVER: presence 1 or absence of river 0

G_CODE: Sediment size appreciation (Google photographies)
0 not available
1 Fine (only sand)
2 Medium (sand-pebble-shells)
3 Coarse (only pebble)

C2: Front beach description (coast) categories
11 Vegetation and sand mixture
12 Grass vegetation
13 Shrub vegetation
14 Tree vegetation
21 Buildings
22 Road
23 Wall
24 Seawall and revetments
31 Dune
32 Dune with vegetation
41 Vegetation on steep slope
42 Little vegetated escarpment
43 Steep rocky slope
51 Agriculture
61 Marshes
71 Lake, Lagoon
72 River

WAVE: Presence 1 or absence of waves in the image

DATE: Date of the satellite image used

SLR1min: minimum % of the beach surface loss by a coastal retreat of 4.1 meters induce by a SLR of 0.5 m
SLR1max: maximum % of the beach surface loss by a coastal retreat of 21.4 meters induce by a SLR of 0.5 m
SLR2min: minimum % of the beach surface loss by a coastal retreat of 6.9 meters induce by a SLR of 0.82 m
SLR2max: maximum % of the beach surface loss by a coastal retreat of 31.6 meters induce by a SLR of 0.82 m
SLR3min: minimum % of the beach surface loss by a coastal retreat of 8.5 meters induce by a SLR of 1 m
SLR3max: maximum % of the beach surface loss by a coastal retreat of 37.3 meters induce by a SLR of 1 m