Hurricane Wave Data with ADP

Fall, 1998 - A Florida engineering firm deployed a 1.5-MHz SonTek Acoustic Doppler Profiler (ADP), equipped with a pressure sensor and our SonWave wave spectra software package, in 25 m of water off the Southeast Florida coast. The ADP collected ocean-current profile data and wave data during Hurricane Georges in the Fall of 1998. In the graphs below, the preliminary analysis of the wave data during the passing of Georges over the experimental site shows a rapid increase in the wave energy, with significant wave height H_mo in excess of 3 m.

Wave data collected during Hurricane Georges by ADP using SonWave

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