Nearshore directional wave measurements by surface-following buoy and acoustic Doppler current profiler

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 8-9, 2008, Pages 727-737

  Work, Paul A ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic Doppler current profiler; Directional wave energy spectra; Ocean surface waves; Savannah River Entrance Channel; Triaxys; Wave buoy; Wave measurement

Indexed keywords

BUOYS; COASTAL ZONES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER WAVES;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; DIRECTIONAL WAVE ENERGY SPECTRA; MAXIMUM ENTROPY METHOD;

HYDRODYNAMICS;

BUOYS; COASTAL ZONES; HYDRODYNAMICS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER WAVES;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; COASTAL ZONE; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MOORING SYSTEM; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; OCEAN WAVE; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SURFACE WAVE; WAVE DIRECTION; WAVE ENERGY;

NORTH AMERICA; SAVANNAH RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 42049110342     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2008.02.005     Document Type: Article

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