AKA: none
Other ID: BB_Skagit Wave Gages
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s): Climate Change Impacts to the U.S. Pacific and Arctic Coasts (ZP00F00)
Principal Investigator(s): Eric Grossman
Affiliate Investigator(s): Sean Crosby
Information Specialist(s): Eric Grossman
Data Type(s): Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Examine wave climate that affects shorelines, infrastructure, and habitats
Vehicle(s): None
Start Port/Location: Bellingham, WA
End Port/Location: Bellingham, WA
Start Date: 2017-11-27
End Date: 2018-02-09
Equipment Used: RBR Duo
Information to be Derived: time-series of water levels, wave heights, periods, wave energy
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected continuous water level and wave data at 1 hz over the period Dec 2017 to Feb 2018 at three sites in Skagit Bay, WA.
Staff:
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: Local day trips to deploy and recover RBR Duos fixed to bottom mounts in water depths of ~-2-3 m MLLW.
Location:
Northern Puget Sound, western Washington, US, Pacific Ocean
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 48.88639178 | South: 47.08508536 | West: -123.44238281 | East: -122.16796875 |
Platform(s):
Other |
Crosby, S.C., and Grossman, E.E., 2019, Wave observations from nearshore bottom-mounted pressure sensors in Skagit and Bellingham Bays, Washington, USA from Dec 2017 to Feb 2018: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9JZ5F00.
Grossman, E.E., and Crosby, S.C., 2024, Wave observations from bottom-mounted pressure sensors along the West side of Whidbey Island, Washington from Dec 2018 to Jan 2020: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P907B0YM.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| RBR Duo | --- | Mooring (physical oceanography) | Wave observations from bottom-mounted pressure sensors in Bellingham Bay, Washington from Dec 2017 to Jan 2018 (RBRduo pressure and temperature sensors (early 2015 generation), mounted on aluminum frames, were moored in shallow (< 6 m) water depths in Bellingham Bay, Washington, to capture wave heights and periods. Continuous pressure fluctuations are transformed into surface-wave observations of wave heights, periods, and frequency spectra at 30-minute intervals.) Wave observations from bottom-mounted pressure sensors in Skagit Bay, Washington from Dec 2017 to Feb 2018 (RBRduo pressure and temperature sensors (early 2015 generation), mounted on aluminum frames, were moored in shallow (< 6 m) water depths in Skagit Bay to capture wave heights and periods. Continuous pressure fluctuations are transformed into surface-wave observations of wave heights, periods, and frequency spectra at 30-minute intervals.) Wave observations from bottom-mounted pressure sensors along the West side of Whidbey Island, Washington from Dec 2018 to Jan 2020 (RBRduo pressure and temperature sensors mounted on aluminum frames, were moored in shallow (4-9 m) water depths along the West side of Whidbey Island, Washington, to measure wave heights and periods. Continuous pressure fluctuations were transformed into surface-wave observations of wave heights, periods, and frequency spectra at 30-minute intervals.) timeseries (Contains continuous temperature and pressure observations recorded by each instrument at sites B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, and B6.) wave_statistics (Wave conditions averaged over each 30-min interval.) |
