Hurricane Ivan Nearshore Wave Data, Perdido Pass, Alabama

Abstract

In November 2001, the U.S. Army Engineer District, Mobile, funded the Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) to deploy a bottom mounted wave gage in 30 ft of water approximately 1 mile offshore of Perdido Pass, AL. On 16 September 2004, Hurricane Ivan made landfall 20 miles west of Perdido Pass as a category 3 hurricane with 120 miles-per-hour maximum winds. The gage was located and recovered in August 2007 by Emerald Ocean Engineering and returned to ERDC, and the data were found to be intact. Nearshore waves from Hurricane Ivan were recorded by the wave gage. Highest significant wave height of 5.11 m occurred at 0500 GMT on 16 September 2004, with a peak period of 12.8 sec.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA508612

Entities

People

  • James P. Mckinney
  • Linda Lillycrop
  • Margaret A. Sabol

Organizations

  • Engineer Research and Development Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army Corps Of Engineers
  • Barometric Pressure
  • Birds
  • Coastal Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Hurricanes
  • Hydraulics
  • Monitoring
  • Navigation
  • Pressure Transducers
  • Sea Level Rise
  • Shore Protection
  • Shores
  • Storm Surges
  • Storms
  • Tropical Cyclones

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Hydrologic Risk Analysis and Mitigation.
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers