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.

本数据集涵盖5套Nortek AWAC 1 MHz剖面观测仪锚定站点的波浪、海流与水位观测数据。其中前2套锚定站点的设备布设水深为12米，后3套站点的布设水深为14米。所有锚定站点均布设于巴西南里奥格兰德州（Rio Grande do Sul）北部海岸，紧邻特曼达伊（Tramandaí）海滩。全部观测数据均采用Nortek Storm软件进行处理。本研究共布设5套海洋学锚定观测站点，布放周期覆盖2013年12月至2017年9月。本数据集的完整采集方法已详细记载于Andrade（2019）的博士学位论文《巴西南里奥格兰德州北部海岸环流模式》（Coastal Circulation Patterns of the North Coast of Rio Grande do Sul），访问链接为：https://lume.ufrgs.br/handle/10183/188435。该锚定站点的ADCP（Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler，声学多普勒海流剖面仪）观测数据可用于数值模型的校准与验证、污染物、石油及鱼类幼体输运扩散模式的解析，以及南里奥格兰德州北部海岸的海洋发电潜力评估。