University of Massachusetts Marine Renewable Energy Center Waverider Buoy Data

Description

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.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
33 Document with coordinates of deployments and map showing bouy locations. https://mhkdr.openei.org/files/54/Deployment_Map.pdf
57 Archived data file containing the data description, map, manuals, and raw and unpacked (matlab format) data for two deployments: 19 April - 28 July, 2012 off Martha's Vineyard and 26 June - 24 September, 2013 at Nantucket Shoals. See ReadMe.pdf for descriptions of individual files. https://mhkdr.openei.org/files/54/DOE_data.zip
33 README data dictionary explaining the file formats within the data archive and the column headers within individual data files, including descriptions of individual fields. https://mhkdr.openei.org/files/54/ReadMe.pdf

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  • vineyard
  • datawell
  • sdt
  • spectral-bandwidth
  • mean-direction
  • data
  • normalized-height-power-spectrum
  • instrumentation
  • frequency
  • hydrokinetic
  • geospatial-data
  • wave-height-spectrum
  • nantucket-shoals
  • martha
  • unpacked
  • waverider
  • nantucket
  • buoy-orientation
  • mhk
  • binary
  • directional-spread
  • matlab
  • magnetic-field-inclination
  • significant-wave-height
  • raw
  • marine-renewable-energy-center
  • marine
  • ocean
  • burst
  • datalogger
  • woods-hole-oceanographic-institution
  • accelerometer
  • rdt
  • characterization
  • marthas
  • rhode-island
  • oceanographic
  • unpacked-data
  • raw-data
  • accelerometer-data
  • bouy-data
  • wave-data
  • resource
  • energy
  • time-series
  • binary-data

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