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Visualization of Drifting Buoy Deployments on Upper Detroit River within the Great Lakes Waterway from August 28-30, 2001

US Geological Survey Open File Report 02-1
Lansing, Michigan 2002

By: David J. Holtschlag and Steve A. Aichele

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Web Page format of this report is at:
http://mi.water.usgs.gov/pubs/OF/OF02-1/OF02-1LW.php

Table of Contents including Figures, Maps, Graphs, Tables, Appendix, Conversion Factors and Vertical Datum, and Additional Information:
http://mi.water.usgs.gov/pubs/OF/OF02-1/OF02-1TOC.php

Abstract

Detroit River is a connecting channel on the Great Lakes waterway that joins Lake St. Clair with Lake Erie. The river forms part of the international boundary between the United States and Canada in southeastern Michigan and southern Ontario. Drifting buoys were deployed on Detroit River to help investigate flow characteristics of four selected reaches as part of a source water assessment study of public water intakes. The drifting buoys contained global positioning system (GPS) receivers to help track their movements following their deployment. In some deployments, buoys were released across a transect at approximately uniform intervals to better understand flow patterns. In other deployments, buoys were released in clusters to investigate turbulent dispersion characteristics. Computer animations of buoy movements, which can be viewed through the Internet, are developed to help visualize the results of the buoy deployments.

Links of interest:

Drifting Buoy Deployments of August 29, 2001 on Detroit River near Fort Wayne
http://mi.water.usgs.gov/pubs/OF/OF02-1/docs/FortWayne.html

Drifting Buoy Deployments of August 29, 2001 on Detroit River near the Renaissance Center
http://mi.water.usgs.gov/pubs/OF/OF02-1/docs/RenCen.html

Drifting Buoy Deployments of August 30, 2001 on Detroit River near River Rouge at Zug Island
http://mi.water.usgs.gov/pubs/OF/OF02-1/docs/RiverRouge.html

Citation:

Holtschlag, David J. and Aichele, Steve A., 2002, Visualization of Drifting Buoy Deployments on Upper Detroit River within the Great Lakes Waterway from August 28-30, 2001, US Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-1

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