Fiscal Year	2015
Division	Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department	Oceanography
Investigator(s)	MacMahan, James H.
Sponsor	Office of Naval Research (Navy)
Summary	To quantify the temporal and spatial variability of the wind stress along a sandy beach in Monterey, CA that is hypothesized to vary owing to wave height, wave direction, shoreline orientation, and land topography based on the results by Ortiz-Suslow et al. (2014) and Shebani et al. (2013). Our approach is to purchase 6 mobile, self logging, sonic anemometers with solar recharging systems that will be mounted on 7m high mobile towers. The mobile tower will provide the highest fidelity in obtaining accurate wind stress estimates using the direct eddy covariance technique. The mobile towers allow for different spatial configurations to be performed.
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