U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

icon-dot-gov

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

icon-https

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Spatial Extent of Data

USGS Thesaurus Keywords

ISO 19115 Topic Category

Other Subject Keywords

Place Keywords

Field observation of wind waves and current velocity (2020) along the Fog Point Living Shoreline, Maryland

This dataset contains measurements of wave height, peak wave period, and water depth taken every 0.5 hours from February 13 to June 12, 2020, at three wave gauge locations along the Fog Point shoreline in Martin National Wildlife Refuge, Maryland. These wave gauges were continuously sampled at 10 Hz, capturing 20-minute bursts every 30 minutes (peak wave periods longer than 7s were removed). Additionally, the dataset includes measurements of current velocity at one location during the same period. A tilt current meter (TCM, Lowell Instruments LLC, short-TCMs, range of 0-60 cm/s), consisting of a tilt-corrected compass in a buoyant casing and attached to a concrete tile at the sediment surface, was used to measure current velocities. The TCM was sampled at 16 Hz in bursts of 20 seconds. The measured wave and current data were used for the analysis of wave attenuation along the living shoreline.

Get Data and Metadata
Author(s) Hongqing Wang orcid, Qin Chen orcid, William D Capurso orcid, Nan Wang orcid, Lukasz M Niemoczynski, Matt Whitbeck, Ling Zhu orcid, Gregg Snedden orcid
Publication Date 2023-09-25
Beginning Date of Data 2020-02-13
Ending Date of Data 2020-08-05
Data Contact
DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P9TXZX5W
Citation Wang, H., Chen, Q., Capurso, W.D., Wang, N., Niemoczynski, L.M., Whitbeck, M., Zhu, L., and Snedden, G., 2023, Field observation of wind waves and current velocity (2020) along the Fog Point Living Shoreline, Maryland: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9TXZX5W.
Metadata Contact
Metadata Date 2023-11-07
Related Publication
Citations of these data

Loading https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apor.2023.103782


Loading https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20241004

Access public
License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
Loading...
Harvest Source: ScienceBase
Harvest Date: 2023-11-28T04:35:19.969Z