Accession Number:

ADA171408

Title:

Annual Data Summary for 1982 CERC (Coastal Engineering Research Center) Field Research Facility.

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.,

Corporate Author:

COASTAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER VICKSBURG MS

Personal Author(s):

• Miller,Herman C.
• Leffler,Michael W.
• Grogg,William E. , Jr.
• Wheeler,Stephen C.
• Toensend,C. R. , III

Report Date:

1986-05-01

Pagination or Media Count:

262.0

Abstract:

This report provides basic data and summaries for the measurements made during 1982 at the US Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station WES Coastal Engineering Research Centers CERCs Field Research Facility FRF in Duck, North Carolina. The report includes comparisons of the present years data to those of prior years and cumulative statistics from 1980 to the present. Summarized in this report are meteorological and oceanographic data, monthly bathymetric survey results, samples of quarterly aerial photography, and descriptions and hourly data for 16 storms that occurred during the year. The report is the fourth in a series of annual summaries of data collected at the FRF the first, which summarized data collected during 1977-79, was published as CERC Miscellaneous Paper 82-16 the second, which summarized data collected during 1980, was published as CERC Technical Report 84-1 and the third, which summarized data collected during 1981, was published as CERC Technical Report 85-3. These reports are available from the WES Technical Report Distribution Section, Vicksburg, Mississippi. Author

Descriptors:

• *OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA
• OCEAN WAVES
• INSHORE AREAS
• METEOROLOGICAL DATA
• BATHYMETRY
• STORMS
• NORTH CAROLINA
• NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
• SEDIMENTS
• SEA LEVEL
• OCEAN TIDES

Subject Categories:

• Physical and Dynamic Oceanography

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE