University of Massachusetts Marine Renewable Energy Center Waverider Buoy Data

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The compressed (.zip) file contains Datawell MK-III Directional Waverider binary and unpacked data files as well as a description of the data and manuals for the instrumentation. The data files are contained in the two directories within the zip file, "Apr_July_2012" and "Jun_Sept_2013". Time series and summary data were recorded in the buoy to binary files with extensions '.RDT' and '.SDT', respectively. These are located in the subdirectories 'Data_Raw' in each of the top-level deployment directories. '.RDT' files contain 3 days of time series (at 1.28 Hz) in 30 minute "bursts". Each '.SDT' file contains summary statistics for the month indicated computed at half-hour intervals for each burst. Each deployment directory also contains a description (in 'File.list') of the Datawell binary data files, and a figure ('Hs_vs_yearday') showing the significant wave height associated with each .RDT file (decoded from the filename). The corresponding unpacked Matlab .mat files are contained in the subdirectories 'Data_Mat'. These files have the extension '.mat' but use the root filename of the source .RDT and .SDT files.

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TY - DATA AB - The compressed (.zip) file contains Datawell MK-III Directional Waverider binary and unpacked data files as well as a description of the data and manuals for the instrumentation. The data files are contained in the two directories within the zip file, "Apr_July_2012" and "Jun_Sept_2013". Time series and summary data were recorded in the buoy to binary files with extensions '.RDT' and '.SDT', respectively. These are located in the subdirectories 'Data_Raw' in each of the top-level deployment directories. '.RDT' files contain 3 days of time series (at 1.28 Hz) in 30 minute "bursts". Each '.SDT' file contains summary statistics for the month indicated computed at half-hour intervals for each burst. Each deployment directory also contains a description (in 'File.list') of the Datawell binary data files, and a figure ('Hs_vs_yearday') showing the significant wave height associated with each .RDT file (decoded from the filename). The corresponding unpacked Matlab .mat files are contained in the subdirectories 'Data_Mat'. These files have the extension '.mat' but use the root filename of the source .RDT and .SDT files. AU - Lohrenz, Steven DB - Marine and Hydrokinetic Data Repository DP - Open EI | National Renewable Energy Laboratory DO - 10.15473/1245829 KW - MHK KW - Marine KW - Hydrokinetic KW - energy KW - wave data KW - oceanographic KW - bouy data KW - Waverider KW - binary data KW - unpacked data KW - RDT KW - SDT KW - time series KW - Matlab KW - significant wave height KW - accelerometer data KW - Nantucket KW - Rhode Island KW - datawell KW - datalogger KW - data KW - raw KW - binary KW - resource KW - raw data KW - Nantucket Shoals KW - instrumentation KW - Martha KW - Vineyard KW - Marthas KW - Marine Renewable Energy Center KW - characterization KW - ocean KW - unpacked KW - spectral bandwidth KW - frequency KW - normalized height power spectrum KW - mean direction KW - directional spread KW - burst KW - geospatial data KW - wave height spectrum KW - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution KW - buoy orientation KW - magnetic field inclination KW - accelerometer LA - English DA - 2015/10/07 PY - 2015 PB - University of Massachusetts T1 - University of Massachusetts Marine Renewable Energy Center Waverider Buoy Data UR - https://doi.org/10.15473/1245829 ER -
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Lohrenz, Steven. University of Massachusetts Marine Renewable Energy Center Waverider Buoy Data. University of Massachusetts, 7 October, 2015, Marine and Hydrokinetic Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.15473/1245829.
Lohrenz, S. (2015). University of Massachusetts Marine Renewable Energy Center Waverider Buoy Data. [Data set]. Marine and Hydrokinetic Data Repository. University of Massachusetts. https://doi.org/10.15473/1245829
Lohrenz, Steven. University of Massachusetts Marine Renewable Energy Center Waverider Buoy Data. University of Massachusetts, October, 7, 2015. Distributed by Marine and Hydrokinetic Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.15473/1245829
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Data from Oct 7, 2015

Last updated Jul 30, 2020

Submitted Oct 7, 2015

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University of Massachusetts

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Steven Lohrenz

508.910.6550

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Steven Lohrenz

University of Massachusetts

DOE Project Details

Project Name Marine Renewable Energy Center

Project Lead Alison LaBonte

Project Number EE0000299

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