U.S. Geological Survey researchers collected high-resolution measurements of waves, currents, water levels, temperature, salinity, and turbidity in Hanalei Bay, Kauai, during the summer of 2006. The data set was gathered using bottom-mounted instrument packages deployed in water depths under 10 meters, supplemented with vertical water column profiles. This work supports the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program's Pacific Coral Reef Project to understand particle transport in coral reef settings.
Use Cases
- Modeling sediment transport by correlating turbidity measurements with wave height and current velocity data.
- Analyzing water column stratification by examining vertical profiles of temperature and salinity.
- Studying wave-current interactions on coral reefs using concurrent time-series measurements of waves and currents.
- Assessing the impact of river floods on coastal embayments by analyzing water level and turbidity data during quiescent summer conditions.
Strengths
- High-resolution measurements of multiple physical oceanographic parameters.
- Data collection includes both long-term bottom-mounted instruments and spatial water column profiles.
Limitations
- Dataset is temporally limited to a single summer season (June-September 2006).
- Spatial coverage is restricted to one specific bay (Hanalei Bay, Kauai).
- Sample size and row count are unknown from the provided description.
Provenance
- Source
- U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Coastal and Marine Geology Program's Pacific Coral Reef Project.
- Collection Method
- Bottom-mounted instrument packages deployed in water depths under 10 meters, supplemented with vertical water column profiling.
- Time Range
- June-September 2006.
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Hanalei Bay, northern Kauai, Hawaii.