Articles | Volume 15, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-5135-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-5135-2023
Data description paper
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27 Nov 2023
Data description paper |  | 27 Nov 2023

Measurements of nearshore ocean-surface kinematics through coherent arrays of free-drifting buoys

Edwin Rainville, Jim Thomson, Melissa Moulton, and Morteza Derakhti

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Measuring ocean waves nearshore is essential for understanding how the waves impact our coastlines. We designed and deployed many small wave buoys in the nearshore ocean over 27 d in Duck, North Carolina, USA, in 2021. The wave buoys measure their motion as they drift. In this paper, we describe multiple levels of data processing. We explain how this dataset can be used in future studies to investigate nearshore wave kinematics, transport of buoyant particles, and wave-breaking processes.
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