The Internal Waves on the Continental Margin (IWAVES) experiment is an oceanographic study of internal waves on the continental slope and shelf. The primary goals of the study are:
The site for this experiment was the slope and shelf waters off of Mission Beach, California. The field work began in the summer of 1996 and continued through October 1997. Arrays of moorings were deployed in four different configurations in an attempt to address the stated goals. The instruments on the array moorings were bottom-mounted acoustic doppler current profilers (ADCP's) and temperature loggers strung along the mooring lines. Two of the arrays (referred to as pilot1 and main1 , respectively) extended approximately from 1 km to 15 km offshore in depths ranging from 15 m to 500 m. The other two arrays (referred to as pilot2 and main2 , respectively) were designed to be coherent at all internal wave frequencies. These arrays extended from 1 km to 3.5 km offshore in depths of 15 m to 30 m. The main1 and pilot2 arrays also had alongshore elements for at least part of their deployments to study the alongshore structure of the internal wave field. Sample rates were 0.5 to 1 Hz for velocities and 4 Hz for temperatures. In addition, ctd yoyo's were conducted near some of the moorings over periods ranging from 3 to 24 hours to provide information on stratification variability at tidal and smaller time scales. Surface and bottom pressure time series were collected at some of the mooring locations. Wind velocity was also collected during all array deployments at a nearby location.
Lerczak, J. A., M. C. Hendershott, and C. D. Winant. 2001. Observations and modeling of coastal internal waves driven by a diurnal seabreeze. Accepted by J. Geophys. Res. To get a pdf version, click here.
Lerczak, J. A., M. C. Hendershott, and C. D. Winant. 2001. Coherence between the semidiurnal barotropic tide and internal tidal currents on the southern California shelf and slope. Submitted to J. Phys. Oceanogr. To get a pdf version, click here.
Lerczak, J. A., C. D. Winant, and M. C. Hendershott. 2001. Observations of the semidiurnal internal tide on the southern California shelf. Submitted to J. Geophys. Res. To get a pdf version, click here.
This tar file contains all the files I used to run my secondary circulation simulations. The re-start file (estuary8_5_rst.nc) was generated when I ran the program with estuary8_5.in. There are a few matlab files for generating the grid nc file. The one I used for most of my runs (including estuary8_5) is estuary4_grd.nc. Give me a call if you have any questions. It might be easiest to explain things over the phone.
This power point file contains photos taken by the owners in September, 2002 (I believe) and some photos that I took during the home inspection.
Analysis of nearshore data