OC4213 LAB 2 - SUPPLEMENT

Web sites to explore:

1. CDIP Data site for Monterey Bay:

http://cdip.ucsd.edu/

Offshore data: Click on Recent and select the Nowcast Models option near the top of the page. Scroll down a bit and click on Model Archives on the lower left. Use the menus to select and examine images and data plots for some of the CDIP locations. For lab 2, we will be using this page to examine map images of wave conditions off Monterey Bay.

2. Monterey Inner Shelf Observatory (MISO) website:

http://www.oc.nps.navy.mil/~stanton/miso/

For ADCP data: Click on Waves and Currents and then choose Sand City ADCP. You will use this data in your lab work.

3. Marina and Sand City wave buoys (Prof. T.H.C. Herbers):

http://www.oc.nps.navy.mil/wavelab/loc_wav.html

Click on the Marina Wavebuoy and Sand City Wavebuoy links. (As of early 2003, this data is no longer available.)

4. NOAA Buoy website (source of above CDIP data):

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/Maps/Northwest.shtml

5. General data site:

http://www.coastal-guide.com/

Make a selection under the heading "Coastal and Marine Data".

6. Another general site is:

http://www.coastal.udel.edu/coastal/coastal.html

7. Kinematic wave examples located at:

http://www.oc.nps.navy.mil/nearshore/

Click on "Java Applets"; try out "Linear Wave Kinematics" and "Superposition of Waves".
(Only available on machines with Java software.)