Land-Ocean Interaction Study

Currents and SPM (suspended particulate material) measurements
Holderness, East Coast, England
November - December 1993, October 1994 - February 1995
and October 1995 - January 1996

A Lane
Report No. 45 1997
Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory

Centre for Coastal and Marine Sciences
Natural Environment Research Council

Abstract

This report describes the data collected by instruments mounted on PMPs which were deployed at several sites off the Holderness Coast in the pilot study during winter 1993, and in surveys during the following two winters, 1994-95 & 1995-96.

These surveys form part of the River-Atmosphere-Coastal Study (RACS), which is a component of the Land-Ocean Interaction Study (LOIS), an inter-disciplinary research project of the UK Natural Environment Research Council.

1. INTRODUCTION

2. SUMMARY OF DEPLOYMENTS

2.1 Deployment inventory 1993

2.2 Deployment inventory 1994-95

2.3 Deployment inventory 1995-96

3. MOORING SYSTEM DESCRIPTION

4. INSTRUMENTATION

4.1 Acoustic Doppler current profiler (POL 1 MHz)

4.2 S4 electromagnetic current meter

4.3 Water-level recorder

4.4 Environment monitoring package

4.5 Transmissometer

5. DATA PROCESSING

5.1 Raw data transfer

5.2 Processing steps

6. STATISTICS

6.1 Current component statistics

6.2 Variance ellipse statistics

7. DATA OUTPUT FORMAT

7.1 Mooring information

7.2 Meter information

7.3 Graphical output

7.4 Single ADCP bin

8. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

9. REFERENCES

DATA RESULTS

Acoustic Doppler current profiler (POL 1 MHz)

S4 electromagnetic current meter

Water-level recorder

Environment monitoring package

Transmissometer