East Pass and Ludington Sand Transport Data Collection Projects: Data Report

Abstract

This report is a compilation of data collected during two field data collection projects designed to measure the longshore sand transport rate. The field projects were conducted at East Pass, Florida, in September 1987 and Ludington, Michigan, in September 1988. Portable sand traps were used to make point measurements of longshore sand transport rates, with corresponding measurements of waves and currents. At Ludington, comparisons were made between the streamer traps and Optical Backscatter Sensors (OBS) under similar surf zone conditions. A complete listing of the sand transport rate, wave height and period, longshore current, water level, sand grain size data is presented for each field data collection project.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA239304

Entities

People

  • Julie Dean Rosati
  • Kathryn J. Gingerich
  • Nicholas C. Kraus

Organizations

  • Coastal Engineering Research Center

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Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army Corps Of Engineers
  • Civil Engineering
  • Coastal Engineering
  • Data Analysis
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Grain Size
  • Great Lakes
  • Lake Michigan
  • Lakes
  • Measurement
  • Sedimentation
  • Shore Protection
  • Shores
  • Statistics
  • Surveys
  • Waterways

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Coastal and Marine Engineering/Sediment Transport/Hydraulic Engineering
  • Oceanography.