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TRIAXYS™ Wave Buoy and RD Instruments ADCP

Comparison of Directional Wave Parameters
Georgia TechP.A. Work, Ph.D., P.E.
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Tech – Savannah, Georgia, USA

Since July 2004 the author has been routinely measuring waves 10km offshore Savannah, Georgia, at a site with mean water depth of 13m, using a TRIAXYS™ Wave Buoy. This report summarises a comparison of directional wave parameters from the buoy and 1,200kHz RD instruments Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) equipped with pressure transducer and waves firmware.
TRIAXYS Wave Buoy Deployment Site
The ADCP was deployed beside the wave buoy, resulting in 72 days of comparative simultaneous hourly measurements of directional wave-energy spectra from the two systems. The goal of this report is to provide some results for objective comparison of the two instrument systems. No instrument exists which can reliably report the true wave-energy spectrum: all report an estimate. So the goal here is to compare these estimates with emphasis on scalar parameters derived from the directional spectra.

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