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Admiralty Inlet, WA - Tidal Currents

Published by Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center | Department of Energy | Catalog Last Checked: March 23, 2026 at 09:42 PM | Dataset Last Updated: July 30, 2020 at 04:56 PM
Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) data from seafloor tripods in Admiralty Inlet, Puget Sound, Washington. Data collected from April 2009 through December 2012. When using the data, please cite the J. Oceanic Eng. paper included in this submission, and please contact Jim Thomson prior to submitting publications or conference abstracts that use the data.

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DOI 10.15473/1419490
identifier https://data.openei.org/submissions/7806
issued 2009-04-01T06:00:00Z
keyword 
                                            [
  "ADCP",
  "Admiralty Head",
  "Admiralty Inlet",
  "Hydrokinetic",
  "MHK",
  "Marine",
  "Matlab",
  "NNMREC",
  "PMEC",
  "Puget Sound",
  "WA",
  "Washington",
  "acoustic",
  "acoustic doppler",
  "characterization",
  "current",
  "current profiler",
  "data",
  "doppler",
  "energy",
  "field test",
  "mooring",
  "mooring data",
  "ocean",
  "power",
  "processed data",
  "resource",
  "seafloor tripods",
  "tidal",
  "tidal monitoring",
  "tide",
  "velocity"
]
landingPage https://mhkdr.openei.org/submissions/103
license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
modified 2020-07-30T16:56:20Z
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projectLead Tim Ramsey
projectNumber GO18179
projectTitle Northwest National Marine renewable Energy Center
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title Admiralty Inlet, WA - Tidal Currents

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