Upward-profiling ADCP wave and current measurements from Lake Michigan near Ogden Dunes/Burns Harbor, Indiana

Description

The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is evaluating the placement of dredged material in the nearshore areas of Lake Michigan as a means to replenish sand at selected beaches. In order to elucidate the physical processes in the nearshore environment that transport and distribute sand to the beach, the USACE-Chicago District and the US Geological Survey (USGS) developed a plan for a beach nourishment study on Lake Michigan near Burns Harbor/Ogden Dunes, Indiana. In support of this effort, the USGS deployed an upward-profiling acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) to the Burns Harbor/Ogden Dunes study area to collect wave and current data. The ADCP was located at the following World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84) coordinates: 41⁰37’44.90" N, -87⁰12’06.90" W. This metadata file describes the wave parameters and current data exported from the Teledyne RDI Waves software package.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/F7R49PQX
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.59d7e65be4b05fe04cc81d64.xml

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  • burns-harbor
  • indiana
  • portage-in
  • porter-county
  • ogden-dunes
  • beach-nourishment
  • lake-michigan
  • usgs-59d7e65be4b05fe04cc81d64
  • acoustic-doppler-current-profiling
  • surface-water-non-marine

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