RESEARCH DATA IN PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY: ADCP mooring on the north coast of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

This dataset consists of wave, current, and water level data from five Nortek
AWAC 1 MHz profiler moorings. In the first two moorings, the equipment was installed
at a depth of 12 m, and in the last three, at 14 m. All the moorings were made on the
north coast of Rio Grande do Sul, near the beach of Tramandaí, Brazil. Data were
processed using Nortek Storm software. Five oceanographic moorings were made and
distributed between December 2013 and September 2017. The complete methodology
for collecting this research data is described in the doctoral thesis Coastal Circulation
Patterns of the North Coast of Rio Grande do Sul, by Andrade (2019)
[https://lume.ufrgs.br/handle/10183/188435]. ADCP data mooring can help calibrate and validate numerical
models, determine dispersion patterns of pollutants, oil, and fish larvae, and calculate
the potential for power generation in the northern portion of the RS coast.