Wave measurements in Upper Galveston Bay, TX (USA)

Author

Corson, W.D. ; Rhee, J.P. ; Welp, T.E. ; McKinney, J.P.

Author_Institution

Prototype Meas. & Anal. Branch, US Army Corps, Vicksburg, MS., USA

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

6-9 Oct 1997

Firstpage

1099

Abstract

In support of erosion protection efforts for an aquatic confined dredged material placement area, analyses of pressure time series recorded in Upper Galveston Bay near the Houston Ship Channel provide data on (a) wind-waves, (b) ship-wakes, (c) ship draw-down, and (d) mean water-level. Time series are 2048 seconds long and sampled at 2 hertz. Approximately 34-minute records are taken every 40 minutes. The nearly continuous recording was selected to record waves from as many passing ships as possible, provide data on wind-waves and mean water-level, and allow for deployment of the internal recording gage for nearly 3 weeks

Keywords

erosion; ocean waves; oceanographic regions; ships; time series; wakes; Houston Ship Channel; Texas; USA; Upper Galveston Bay; aquatic confined dredged material placement area; continuous recording; erosion protection efforts; internal recording gauge deployment; mean water level; passing ships; pressure time series; ship draw-down; ship wakes; time series; wave measurements; wind waves; Data engineering; Fourier transforms; Frequency; Marine vehicles; Performance analysis; Protection; Sampling methods; Tides; Time domain analysis; Time series analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS '97. MTS/IEEE Conference Proceedings

Conference_Location

Halifax, NS

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4108-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANS.1997.624145

Filename

624145