Investigate wave attenuation across mudflats and marsh.
Description
United States Geological Survey, Pacific Science Center. Chief Scientist: Jessie Lacy. Oceanographic deployment data of field activity I-D1-10-SF in San Francisco Bay, near Corte Madera from 01/22/2010 to 03/22/2010
Location
near Corte Madera
Summary
Oceanographic instruments will be deployed in a cross-shore transect to measure wave heights and propagation direction.
Info derived
Wave heights, periods, and directions, current speed and direction, tidal stage, salinity, bed sediment grain size.
Comments
Wave attenuation. associated activitiy: mapping of Corte Madera Bay by Jaffe, Finlayson, Kayen and others in January 2009.