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Data description paper
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27 Jun 2023
Data description paper |
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| 27 Jun 2023
Wind wave and water level dataset for Hornsund, Svalbard (2013–2021)
Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Mateusz Moskalik
Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Agnieszka Herman
Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland
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Monitoring ocean waves is important for understanding wave climate and seasonal to longer-term (years to decades) changes. In the Arctic, there is limited freely available observational wave information. We placed sensors at the sea bottom of six bays in Hornsund fjord, Svalbard, and calculated wave energy, wave height and wave period for full hours between July 2013 and February 2021. In this paper, we present the procedure of deriving wave properties from raw pressure measurements.
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