Annual Data Summary for 1991 CERC Field Research Facility

Abstract

This report provides basic data and summaries for the measurements made during 1991 at the US Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (WES) coastal Engineering Research Center's (CERC's) Field Research Facility (FRF) in Duck, NC. The report includes comparisons of the present year's data with cumulative statistics from 1980 to the present. Meteorological and oceanographic data, monthly bathymetric survey results, samples of biannual aerial photography, and descriptions of 18 storms that occurred during the year are summarized in this report. The year was highlighted by a major storm (the Halloween Storm) in late October. Waves with 6-m significant height and periods exceeding 21 sec were measured 6 km from shore. This report is the 13th in a series of annual summaries of data collected at the FRF that began with Miscellaneous Report CERC-82-16, which summarized data collected during 1977- 1979. These reports are available from the WES Technical Report Distribution Section of the Information Technology Laboratory, Vicksburg, MS.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA268754

Entities

People

  • Brian L. Scarborough
  • Clifford F. Baron
  • Kent R. Hathaway
  • Michael W. Leffler

Organizations

  • United States Army Corps of Engineers

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Aerial Photography
  • Army Corps Of Engineers
  • Birds
  • Coastal Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Frequency
  • Intervals
  • Measurement
  • Observation
  • Observatories
  • Research Facilities
  • Spectra
  • Statistics
  • Three Dimensional
  • Waterways

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.