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Field Data

FIGURE 1: Schematic of locations of sensors deployed in the Nearshore Canyon Experiment (NCEX) in Oct and Nov 2003. Time series and processed data products from instruments deployed by Elgar-Guza-Raubenheimer in less than 10-m water depth are available through this WWW site. Links to additional data sets will be posted here when available. The colors are depth contours (relative to mean sea level, as indicated by the labeled contour curves). Symbols are wave and current sensors (see legend).



FIGURE 2: A cross-shore transect at the northern edge of the NCEX study area. The 5 tripods in the foreground hold vertical stacks of 2-axis ADVs with colocated pressure sensors for observing waves and currents in the swashzone. The array extends from the shoreline to 15 m water depth (tripods that hold 3-axis ADVS and colocated pressure sensors are marked with orange flags across the surfzone).




FIGURE 3: Kelp on the acoustic transducer arms of a SONTEK ADV deployed during NCEX. The data on this WWW site have undergone extensive quality control (» see Elgar, Steve, B. Raubenheimer, & R.T. Guza, 2005, Quality control of acoustic Doppler velocimeter data in the surfzone, Measurement Science and Technology 16, 1889-1893.). However, there are no guarantees that the quality control processing was perfect. If you find questionable data, please contact Steve Elgar () or Britt Raubenheimer () so we can investigate further.


 

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