2017 Western Passage Tidal Energy Resource Characterization Measurements

Kilcher, Levi

doi:10.15473/1635227

Title: 2017 Western Passage Tidal Energy Resource Characterization Measurements

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These data are from tidal resource characterization measurements collected between April and July 2017 in Western Passage near Eastport, Maine, USA. The dataset contains the following four sub-datasets, each of which is described in more detail in the README.pdf. 1. A bottom-mounted Teledyne RDI Workhorse 600 kHz acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) was deployed at 44.92015 N, 66.98915 W in ~50 m of water from 3 April to 18 July (106 days). Data were recorded in 6-minute increments in the ENU (East, magnetic North, Up) coordinate system with bin-mapping enabled. 2. A bottom-mounted Nortek Signature 500 kHz ADCP was deployed at 44.92192 N, 66.98913 W in ~50 m of water from 4 April to 18 July (105 days). Data were sampled and recorded at 2 Hz and recorded in the ENU (East, magnetic North, Up) coordinate system. 3. Between those stations along a cross-channel transect, a Stable Tidal Turbulence Mooring (STTM) positioned ~10 m above the seabed was deployed for one week during a spring tide. The STTM was outfitted with two Nortek Vector acoustic Doppler velocimeters equipped with inertial motion units (ADVs), a bottom-tracking downward-looking Teledyne RDI Workhorse 600 kHz ADCP to provide motion-corrected flow and turbulence characteristics atmore »« less

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Kilcher, Levi

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Publication Date:: Mon Jul 31 04:00:00 UTC 2017

Other Number(s):: 323

Research Org.:: Marine and Hydrokinetic Data Repository (MHKDR); National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Wind and Water Technologies Office (EE-4W)

Collaborations:: National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Subject:: 16 TIDAL AND WAVE POWER; ADCP; Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler; DOLfYN; Hydrokinetic; MATLAB; MHK; MLLW; Marine; Nortek; Ocean Contour; RDI Sentinel; RDI WorkHorse; STTM; Stable Tidal Turbulence Mooring; StableMoor; Teledyne; Western Passage; air pressure; depth; energy; flow; height; maine; mean lower low water; power; processed data; raw data; resource; resource assessment; resource characterization; sea surface height; tidal; turbulence; velocimetry; velocity

OSTI Identifier:: 1635227

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.15473/1635227

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@article{osti_1635227,

  title        = {2017 Western Passage Tidal Energy Resource Characterization Measurements},

  author       = {Kilcher, Levi},

  abstractNote = {These data are from tidal resource characterization measurements collected between April and July 2017 in Western Passage near Eastport, Maine, USA. The dataset contains the following four sub-datasets, each of which is described in more detail in the README.pdf. 1. A bottom-mounted Teledyne RDI Workhorse 600 kHz acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) was deployed at 44.92015 N, 66.98915 W in ~50 m of water from 3 April to 18 July (106 days). Data were recorded in 6-minute increments in the ENU (East, magnetic North, Up) coordinate system with bin-mapping enabled. 2. A bottom-mounted Nortek Signature 500 kHz ADCP was deployed at 44.92192 N, 66.98913 W in ~50 m of water from 4 April to 18 July (105 days). Data were sampled and recorded at 2 Hz and recorded in the ENU (East, magnetic North, Up) coordinate system. 3. Between those stations along a cross-channel transect, a Stable Tidal Turbulence Mooring (STTM) positioned ~10 m above the seabed was deployed for one week during a spring tide. The STTM was outfitted with two Nortek Vector acoustic Doppler velocimeters equipped with inertial motion units (ADVs), a bottom-tracking downward-looking Teledyne RDI Workhorse 600 kHz ADCP to provide motion-corrected flow and turbulence characteristics at high temporal resolution, and an upward-looking Teledyne RDI Sentinel V20 ADCP. The STTM was deployed at 44.92098 N, 66.98922 W from 24-31 May. 4. A vessel-mounted Teledyne RDI Workhorse 300 kHz ADCP collected current data along three transects over two days, 4-5 April. The data processing used DOLfYN version 0.11.2. All hdf5 files (i.e., files ending in `.h5`) contained here can be opened using that version of DOLfYN (e.g., `dat = dolfyn.load('')`). All distances are in meters (e.g., depth, range, MLLW, hab, eta, z_), and all velocities in m/s. See the DOLfYN documentation https://lkilcher.github.io/dolfyn/), and/or the Nortek and Teledyne RDI documentation for additional details. Additional details on the dataset can be found in the README.pdf, including: - Format details of each data file. - How to regenerate the data-processing (using the files in the `wp2017_processing.zip` archive).},

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  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Mon Jul 31 04:00:00 UTC 2017},

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