Current Meter Study for Agate, Port Orchard, and Rich Passages
Abstract
This document presents a study plan to obtain current data for Agate, Port Orchard, and Rich Passages in the central Puget Sound, Washington (Figure 1). The study will be conducted as a cooperative project among the Puget Sound Marine Environmental Monitoring (PSMEM) partnership; the study will be performed by the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility (Shipyard), the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center San Diego (SSC-SD), and the Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology). The study will be conducted during September to December 2005 and will be designed to collect 1 to 3 month long current records for strategic stations within the passages and one station adjacent to the Shipyard in Sinclair Inlet (Figure 2). Data from this study will be used to calibrate and verify coupling between the inlet-scale models being developed for the Inlets and passages utilizing the curvilinear hydrodynamics in 3- dimensions (CH3D) model (Wang and Richter 1999, Wang et al. 2005) and the sound-scale circulation model developed for the larger Puget Sound using the Princeton Ocean Model (POM) (Kawase 2002, Sarason 2004, 2005).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 29, 2005
- Accession Number
- ADA517512
Entities
People
- R. K. Johnston
- Skip Albertson