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Wave height measurements using acoustic surface tracking
T. Pedersen,S. Nylund +1 more
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In this article, a vertical, acoustic beam that detects the surface is used to measure the orbital velocities close to the surface and incorporating the Maximum Likelihood Method (MLM) estimate technique (Krogstad et al., 1988).Abstract:
Nortek has improved upon its AWAC, a current and wave measurement sensor package, by introducing a vertical, acoustic beam that detects the surface. This added functionality allows for directly measuring waves as opposed to inferring wave estimates from wave energy spectra. Traditionally, wave measurements from bottom-mounted instruments, such as the combined pressure-velocity (PUV) approach, are limited in their frequency response. This is due to attenuation of the surface signal with increasing depth. Recent advances employ the alternative solution of measuring orbital velocities close to the surface and incorporating the Maximum Likelihood Method (MLM) estimate technique (Krogstad et al., 1988). This improves the accuracy at higher frequencies. However, for deployment depths of 10 meters or deeper, these methods cannot resolve waves periods that are 3 seconds or shorter. Moreover, these bottom-mounted systems do not measure the real surface time series, which makes it difficult to calculate extreme value statistics. The following paper provides an overview of (1) the process of developing the surface track algorithms, (2) comparing with Datawell wave buoys off the coasts of Carqueiranne, France and Gabbard, UK (3) and finally we show how the same technology has been transferred from a 1 MHz to a 600 kHz AWAC to achieve similar accuracy and resolution at depths of 60 meters.read more
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Possibilities and limitations of acoustic surface tracking
T. Pedersen,A. Lohrmann +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a vertical, acoustic beam that detects the surface is used to measure the frequency response of the acoustic surface tracking (AST) with the vertical acoustic beam and when it is permissible to use it to determine water level.
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Field data-based evaluation of methods for recovering surface wave elevation from pressure measurements
TL;DR: In this paper, the surface elevation of irregular waves propagating outside the surf zone from pressure measurements at the bottom was compared with the traditional transfer function method, based on the linear wave theory, which predicts reasonably well the significant wave height but cannot describe the highest frequencies of the wave spectrum.
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Non-hydrostatic, Non-linear Processes in the Surf Zone
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used subsurface pressure and lidar data to study the non-linear and non-hydrostatic character of surf zone waves and found that the nonlinear effects remain strong over the entire surf zone; that is, fluid accelerations are important and the hypothesis of a hydrostatic pressure field leads to large deviations of the real surface elevation.
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ANN-Based Airflow Control for an Oscillating Water Column Using Surface Elevation Measurements
TL;DR: This work aims to use the power of artificial neural networks (ANN) to recognize the different incoming waves in order to distinguish the strong waves that provoke the stalling behavior and generate a suitable airflow speed reference for the airflow control scheme.
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Wave characteristics in the nearshore waters of Sanmen bay
TL;DR: In this article, the wave characteristics in the bay of central coast of Zhejiang are studied based on the AWAC-measured data for 1 year off Sanmen at 7.5m water depth.
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