Characteristics of coastal currents based on High Frequency radar and ADCP observations in the Strait of Georgia

2018 International Conference on Civil and Hydraulic Engineering

土木建筑工程;水利工程

Ren, Lei^1 ; Wang, Manman^2 ; Cai, Huayang^3 ; Hu, Zhan^3 ; Yang, Qingshu^1 ; Hartnett, Michael^4

School of Marine Engineering and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, China^1

Ocean Networks Canada, Canada^2

School of Marine Science, Sun Yat-sen University, China^3

College of Engineering and Informatics, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland^4

关键词: Acoustic Doppler Current;    Coastal currents;    Environmental applications;    High frequency HF;    High frequency radar;    Radial currents;    River discharge;    Surface current data;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/189/5/052042/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/189/5/052042

学科分类：土木及结构工程学

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

A good understanding of the water body movement in Strait of Georgia is of great importance and significance for a variety of economic and environmental applications. Circulation of surface currents in this region is influenced by a variety of factors such as tide, wind and river discharge. Hourly maps of surface currents are obtained through combining the radial currents from more than two stations. In order to explore performance of High Frequency (HF) CODAR radar system, currents observed by HF radars were compared with ADCP (Acoustic Doppler Current Profile) measurements. Results indicated that surface current data from HF radars generally had similar trend as the ADCP data.