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Tidal Energy Resource Characterization, Velocity and Turbulence Measurements, Processed Data, Cook Inlet, AK, 2021
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Overview

This submission contains processed datasets from a long-term deployment of 3 moorings and a transect survey of the proposed tidal energy site off the East Forelands in Cook Inlet, AK. The long-term mooring datasets were created from 8 instruments mounted on a Terrasond High Energy Oceanographic Mooring (THEOM) bottom lander and two Mid-Water Mooring (MWM) Stablemoor buoys from 1 July 2021 to 31 August 2021 (60 days). The west-most mooring (MWM1) was deployed at 60.720225 N, 151.436196 W in ~50 m of water. The middle mooring (THEOM) was deployed at 60.720703 N, 151.429500 W in ~52 m of water. The east-most buoy (MWM2) was deployed at 60.720081 N, 151.420896 W in ~50 m of water. Each Stablemoor carried three instruments: 1. A Nortek Vector acoustic Doppler velocimeter (ADV) mounted at the Stablemoor's nose. Data were recorded at 8 Hz on a 5 minute duty cycle every 20 minutes. Data was motion-corrected using the internal IMU and external ADCP bottom-track data and then bin-averaged into 4 minute bins and converted to the Principal (streamwise, cross-stream, vertical) coordinate system. (Note: 30 seconds were trimmed from the beginning and end of each 5 minute duty cycle to account for the filter end-effects from turning on and turning off the IMU.) 2. A down-looking Nortek Signature 1000 kHz acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) mounted in the first Stablemoor instrument well. Data were recorded in 2 Hz with 5-beam burst and bottom-track enabled. Processed data has been averaged into 10 minute bins and converted into the Principal coordinate system. 3. An up-looking Nortek Signature 1000 kHz acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) mounted in the second Stablemoor instrument well. Data were recorded at 4 Hz with 5 beam burst enabled. Processed data has been averaged into 10 minute bins and converted into the Principal coordinate system. Note: the down-facing ADCP on MWM1 failed on July 10th, 2021, only recording 9 days of data. Because ADV motion-correction required bottom track, the ADV from MWM1 also only has 9 days processed. Additionally, only 25 days of data were processed from the MWM2 ADV because it appeared to have been impacted by debris on 7/25. Two instruments were mounted on the THEOM (see MHKDR link further below for THEOM raw data): 4. A Nortek Vector acoustic Doppler velocimeter (ADV). Data were recorded at 8 Hz on a 5 minute duty cycle every 20 minutes. Data was bin-averaged into 5 minute bins, and converted to the Principal coordinate system. 5. A Nortek Signature 500 kHz acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP). Data were recorded in 4 Hz in the beam coordinate system from all 5 beams. Processed data has been averaged into 10 minutes bins and converted to the Principal coordinate system.

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Dcat Issued2021-08-31T06:00:00Z
Dcat Modified2026-04-17T17:40:12Z
Dcat Publisher NamePacific Northwest National Laboratory
Guidhttps://data.openei.org/submissions/8049
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Harvest Source Id4eb7107f-a2b1-40e3-b36a-8161aa98a56e
Harvest Source TitleOpenEI Data Portal
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Files
  • MWM1 ADV measurements - 4 min windows - netCDF.zip

  • MWM1 down-looking ADCP measurements - 10 min windows - netCDF.zip

  • THEOM ADV measurements - 5 min windows - netCDF.zip

  • MWM2 ADV measurements - 4 min windows - netCDF.zip

  • THEOM ADCP measurements - 10 min windows - netCDF.zip

  • MWM2 up-looking ADCP measurements - 10 min windows - netCDF.zip

  • MWM1 up-looking ADCP measurements - 10 min windows - netCDF.zip

  • MWM1 ADV measurements - 4 min windows - MATLAB.zip

  • MWM1 down-looking ADCP measurements - 10 min windows - MATLAB.zip

  • THEOM ADV measurements - 5 min windows - MATLAB.zip

  • MWM2 ADV measurements - 4 min windows - MATLAB.zip

  • THEOM ADCP measurements - 10 min windows - MATLAB.zip

  • MWM2 down-looking ADCP measurements - 10 min windows - MATLAB.zip

  • MWM2 up-looking ADCP measurements - 10 min windows - MATLAB.zip

  • MWM1 up-looking ADCP measurements - 10 min windows - MATLAB.zip

  • MWM2 down-looking ADCP measurements - 10 min windows - netCDF.zip

  • TRDI WinRiver files raw transect survey - PD0.zip

  • Transect Survey - MATLAB.zip

  • Transect Survey - netCDF.zip

  • THEOM Bottom Lander measurements

  • 0_READ_ME.txt

  • MWM1 up-looking ADCP measurements - binary - ad2cp.zip

  • MWM1 down-looking ADCP measurements - binary - ad2cp.zip

  • MWM1 ADV measurements - binary - vec.zip

  • MWM2 up-looking ADCP measurements - binary - ad2cp.zip

  • MWM2 ADV measurements - binary - vec.zip

  • MWM2 down-looking ADCP measurements - binary - ad2cp.zip

  • Version 2 - Tidal Energy Resource Characterization Velocity and Turbulence Measurements Cook Inlet AK 2021

  • East Foreland Elevation UTM5.zip