Quality Controlling Surf Zone Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter Observations to Estimate the Turbulent Dissipation Rate
Quality Controlling Surf Zone Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter Observations to Estimate the Turbulent Dissipation Rate
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DOI:
10.1175/2010jtecho783.1
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发表时间:
2010-12
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2.2
通讯作者:
F. Feddersen
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作者:
F. Feddersen
High-quality measurements of the turbulent dissipation rate are required to diagnose field surf-zone turbulence budgets. Quality control (QC) methods are presented for estimating surf zone with acoustic Doppler velocimeter (ADV) data. Bad ADV velocity data points are diagnosed with both the ADV signal strength (SS) and correlation (CORR). The fraction of bad SS data points (dSS) depends inversely upon the wave-amplitude-normalized transducer distance below the mean sea surface. The fraction of bad CORR data points dCORR can be elevated when dSS is low. The dCORR depends inversely upon the wave-amplitudenormalized sensing volume distance below the mean sea surface, and also increases with increased wave breaking, consistent with turbulence- and bubble-induced Doppler noise. Velocity spectra derived from both ‘‘patched’’ and ‘‘interpolated’’ time series are used to estimate . Two QC tests, based upon the properties of a turbulent inertial subrange, are used to reject bad data runs. The first test checks that the vertical velocity spectrum’s power-law exponent is near 2 5 /3. The second test checks that a ratio R of horizontal and vertical velocity spectra is near 1. Over all dCORR, 70% of the patched and interpolated data runs pass these tests. However,for larger dCORR .0.1 (locationshigherin the watercolumn),50%more patchedthaninterpolated datarunspasstheQCtests.PreviousQCmethodsdesignedforwavestudiesarenotappropriateforQC.The resultssuggestthatcanbe consistentlyestimatedoverthelower 60%of thewater columnand .0.1 m above the bed within a saturated surf zone.