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Table 2 of An Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler Survey of Flow Velocities in Detroit River, a Connecting Channel of the Great Lakes

US Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-219

By: David J. Holtschlag and John A. Koschik


Table 2. Annotated excerpt of an ASCII output formatted by WinRiver Software. (Link to Accessible version of Table 2.)
Data type Sample data
Transect data ADCP Survey of Detroit River: FC 01
  (Comment number 1)
   
  USACE (Transect run left to right)
  (Comment number 2)
   
  50 25 29 56 1 20 1
  (Depth cell length (cm), Blanking distance (cm), ADCP depth (cm), Number of depth cells, Number of pings per ensemble, Time per ensemble in 1/100s of a second, Profiling mode.)
   
Ensemble data summary 2 7 11 9 2 38 69 376 1 -1.120 0.600 35.950 9.550
  (Year (last digit), Month, Day, Hour, Minute, Second, 1/100s of second, Ensemble number, Number of ensembles, Pitch (degrees), Roll (degrees), Corrected heading (degrees), ADCP Temperature, in degrees Celsius)
   
  1.64 0.76 0.05 0.03 0.00 469.18 0.00 10.07 5.99 6.22 6.22 5.99
  (Bottom-track velocity (ft/s): East(+)/West(-), North(+)/South(-), Vertical Up(+)/Down(-), Error, Not applicable(NA), NA, NA, NA, Depth: Beams 1-4 (ft)
   
  0.87 0.48 0.37 0.79 0.87
  (Total distance in ft, Total elapsed time in seconds, Distance north (ft), Distance east (ft), Distance made good (ft)).
   
  42.3146017 -83.0750067 -32768 -32768 0.9
  (Latitude, Longitude, Measured discharge, Top discharge, Bottom discharge,
   
  -0.0 -0.1 -0.0 0.0 20.0 0.0 0.0 3.73 3.73
  (Discharge ft3/s: (Measured, Top, Bottom, Start-shoreline), Start distance to shore (ft), End-shoreline discharge (ft3/s), End distance to shore (ft), Starting depth of measured layer (ft), Ending depth of measured layer (ft).
   
  35 ft BT dB 0.45 0.115
  (Number of bins to follow, Measurement unit (cm or ft), Velocity reference, Intensity units, Intensity scale factor, Sound absorption factor)
   
Bin data 3.73 0.50 241.35 -0.4 -0.2 -0.0 -0.2 99.0 89.1 90.4 89.1 100 -0.05
  (Depth in ft, Velocity magnitude in ft/s, Measured velocity direction in degrees, East velocity in ft/s, North velocity in ft/s, Vertical velocity in ft/s, Error velocity in ft/s, Backscatter in percent (beams 1-4), Percent good, flow)
   
  5.37 -32768 -32768 -32768 -32768 -32768 -32768 255 109.0 109.0 255 0 2147483647
  7.01 -32768 -32768 -32768 -32768 -32768 -32768 255 255 255 255 0 2147483647
  8.65 -32768 -32768 -32768 -32768 -32768 -32768 255 255 255 255 0 2147483647
  .
  . (Additional velocity data at each depth bin).
  .
  59.51 -32768 -32768 -32768 -32768 -32768 -32768 255 255 255 255 0 2147483647

Citation:

Holtschlag, David J.and John A. Koschik, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 2003, An Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler Survey of Flow Velocities in Detroit River, a Connecting Channel of the Great Lakes, Date Posted: August 12, 2003, US Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-219 [http://mi.water.usgs.gov/pubs/OF/OF03-219/index.php]

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