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WA-IMOS ADCPs

Ming Feng, Mark Snell, Lulu Lodder, Dirk Slawinski, Ian Darby

CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Flagship, Floreat WA

Workhorse 300kHz WH-600kHz Long Ranger 75kHz WATR15 NRSROT-ADCP WATR50 NRSESP-ADCP WATR04 RDI

Continental 190kHz Aquadopp 400kHz

WATR20 WATR10

WACA20

NORTEK

Typical settings

Instrument Locations Range Sample interval

Cell size Deployment

RDI Sentinel 600kHz

NRSROT NRSESP WATR04

50m 10 mins 2m 3-4 months

RDI Sentinel 300kHz

WATR15 110m 15 mins 5m 6 months

RDI Long Ranger 75kHz

WACA50 WATR50

600m 15 mins 16m 6 months

Nortek Continental 190kHz

WACA20 WATR20

250m 15 mins 6m 6 months

Nortek Aquadopp 400kHz

WATR10 90m 15 mins 2m 6 months

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NRS-ROT-ADCP WATR15

WATR20 / WACA20

WATR10

NRSESP-ADCP

ADCP Deployments

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24/01/2010

24/05/2010

24/09/2010

24/01/2011

24/05/2011

24/09/2011

24/01/2012

24/05/2012

24/09/2012

24/01/2013

24/05/2013

24/09/2013

24/01/2014

24/05/2014

24/09/2014

NRSROT

NRSESP

WACA20

WATR04

WATR10

WATR15

WATR20

WATR50

Default values for QC routines

Toolbox QC’d data plot – Rottnest NRS

QC Stats for teledyneQC and sidelobeQC depending on order of implementation

RDI 600kHz (NRSROT)

Nortek Aquadopp (WATR10)

RDI 300kHz (WATR15)

Nortek Continental (WATR20)

RDI 75kHz (WATR50)

Wind data comparisons

Wind data from Rottnest Island

ACORN Radars’ WA Coverage

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WATR20 Radar comparisons

• WA, Two Rocks 200m

• Nortek Continental ADCP

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WATR50 radar Comparisons

• WA, Two Rocks 500m

• RDI Long Ranger ADCP

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Oke and Sakov

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