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Velocity and Turbulence Measurements at Three Locations in the Salish Sea, WA, 2017
Abstract
This submission contains raw and processed datasets of water velocity and turbulence measurements from 3-day deployments of Deepwater Buoyancy StableMoor buoys carrying acoustic Doppler instrumentation at locations in Rosario Strait, Bellingham Channel, and Tacoma Narrows, WA in 2017. Two StableMoor buoy configurations were used at these sites. The StableMoor500 carried a nose-mounted acoustic doppler velocimeter (ADV) and a down-looking acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP), and the StableMoor400 carried dual wing-mounted ADVs located on either side of the nose and a down-looking ADCP. Each StableMoor was designed to fly at an altitude of 10 m above the seafloor. The StableMoor500 was deployed in Bellingham Channel at 48.5601 N, 122.7501 W in 86 m of water from July 24, 2017 - July 27, 2017. The down-looking ADCP malfunctioned, and therefore there is no ADCP data at this site. The StableMoor400 was deployed in Rosario Strait mooring at 48.5800 N, 122.6597 W in 52 m of water from July 24, 2017 - July 27, 2017. Both buoys were deployed in Tacoma Narrows at 47.2766 N, 122.5466 W and 47.2769 N, 122.5471 W in 36 m of water from Nov 14, 2017 - Nov 17, 2017. Nortek Vector ADV measurements were recorded continuously atmore »
- Publication Date:
- Other Number(s):
- 563
- Research Org.:
- Marine and Hydrokinetic Data Repository (MHKDR); Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Water Power Technologies Office (EE-4WP)
- Collaborations:
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Subject:
- 16 TIDAL AND WAVE POWER; ADCP; ADV; Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler; Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter; Bellingham Channel; MHK; MRE; Marine; Nortek Vector; Python; Rosario Strait; Salish Sea; StableMoor400; StableMoor500; Tacoma Narrows; Teledyne RDI Workhorse; WA; Washington; acoustic Doppler; characterization; marine renewable energy; netCDF4; processed data; raw data; resource; turbulence; water velocity
- OSTI Identifier:
- 2476636
- DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.15473/2476636
Citation Formats
McVey, James, and Kilcher, Levi. Velocity and Turbulence Measurements at Three Locations in the Salish Sea, WA, 2017. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.15473/2476636.
McVey, James, & Kilcher, Levi. Velocity and Turbulence Measurements at Three Locations in the Salish Sea, WA, 2017. United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.15473/2476636
McVey, James, and Kilcher, Levi. 2017.
"Velocity and Turbulence Measurements at Three Locations in the Salish Sea, WA, 2017". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.15473/2476636. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/2476636. Pub date:Mon Jul 24 04:00:00 UTC 2017
@article{osti_2476636,
title = {Velocity and Turbulence Measurements at Three Locations in the Salish Sea, WA, 2017},
author = {McVey, James and Kilcher, Levi},
abstractNote = {This submission contains raw and processed datasets of water velocity and turbulence measurements from 3-day deployments of Deepwater Buoyancy StableMoor buoys carrying acoustic Doppler instrumentation at locations in Rosario Strait, Bellingham Channel, and Tacoma Narrows, WA in 2017. Two StableMoor buoy configurations were used at these sites. The StableMoor500 carried a nose-mounted acoustic doppler velocimeter (ADV) and a down-looking acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP), and the StableMoor400 carried dual wing-mounted ADVs located on either side of the nose and a down-looking ADCP. Each StableMoor was designed to fly at an altitude of 10 m above the seafloor. The StableMoor500 was deployed in Bellingham Channel at 48.5601 N, 122.7501 W in 86 m of water from July 24, 2017 - July 27, 2017. The down-looking ADCP malfunctioned, and therefore there is no ADCP data at this site. The StableMoor400 was deployed in Rosario Strait mooring at 48.5800 N, 122.6597 W in 52 m of water from July 24, 2017 - July 27, 2017. Both buoys were deployed in Tacoma Narrows at 47.2766 N, 122.5466 W and 47.2769 N, 122.5471 W in 36 m of water from Nov 14, 2017 - Nov 17, 2017. Nortek Vector ADV measurements were recorded continuously at 16 Hz. Data was motion-corrected using the internal measurement unit (IMU) and external ADCP bottom-track data, bin-averaged into 10 minute bins, and then converted to the Principal (streamwise, cross-stream, vertical) coordinate system. Parameters include water velocity, turbulence intensity, turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) components, Reynolds shear stress components, TKE dissipation and production. Teledyne RDI Workhorse 1200 kHz ADCP measurements were recorded continuously at 2 Hz with bottom-track enabled. Water velocity was averaged into 10 minute bins and converted into the Principal coordinate system. One ADV with the highest quality motion-corrected was fully processed from each deployment site: the nose-mounted ADV at Bellingham Channel, the starboard-wing mounted ADV at Rosario Strait, and the port-wing mounted ADV at Tacoma Narrows. Raw data stored in this submission can be read using DOLfYN v1.3.1, available through the MHKiT python package, and was processed using Tsdat v0.7.5. Processed data are stored in netCDF4 format and can be easily viewed using the Linux "ncdump" command or read through the Xarray python package.},
doi = {10.15473/2476636},
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place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jul 24 04:00:00 UTC 2017},
month = {Mon Jul 24 04:00:00 UTC 2017}
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