In situ wind wave and water level measurements in Hornsund, Svalbard in 2013-2021

These data contain hourly wind wave and water level information for various locations of the nearshore Hornsund fjord, Svalbard in 2013-2021. The datasets describe 24 deployments and include water levels and bulk wave parameters. The bulk parameters - significant wave height, mean absolute wave period, mean absolute zero-crossing period and energy period - were calculated for two maximal frequencies: observational and modelled, the latter including an infinite high-frequency tail. A further dataset is provided containing files with wave spectra, input pressure measurements from underwater sensors subsampled to 1024 s bursts at 1 Hz measurement frequency at hourly intervals, and the Python code to process the data.

The study was funded by National Science Centre SONATINA-5 grant no. UMO-2021/40/C/ST10/00146 (2021-2024).

Data and Resources

Additional Info

Field Value
GCMD keywords
  • name: EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > COASTAL PROCESSES > TIDAL HEIGHT URL: https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/KeywordViewer/scheme/all/9ab67e8f-066e-47b8-838d-8cd5e7460119
  • name: EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT URL: https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/KeywordViewer/scheme/all/1ac6850e-9266-4e90-ba83-b6a6cc4ae365
  • name: EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > WAVE HEIGHT URL: https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/KeywordViewer/scheme/all/0fc68280-1361-43e1-bc5a-40c49e9679b7
  • name: EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN PRESSURE > WATER PRESSURE URL: https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/KeywordViewer/scheme/all/dd025312-0d27-44e0-ae05-7cfcc1aa17f0
  • name: EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > WAVE PERIOD URL: https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/KeywordViewer/scheme/all/99ea6719-b751-4a4f-95d4-aaa02e961bc1
  • name: EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > WIND WAVES URL: https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/KeywordViewer/scheme/all/0c9adb35-b203-42d7-8ccf-b7f2079db7ce
  • name: EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > TIDES URL: https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/KeywordViewer/scheme/all/e3bef663-6116-4f15-995c-38c7cdc9652c
Dataset Center https://pangaea.de/
Maintainer
Dataset PI
  • PI name: Zuzanna Swirad PI email: zswiradfoo(at)igf.edu.pl PI ORCID: 0000-0002-3592-9739 PI Institution: Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences PI Department: Department of Polar and Marine Research
  • PI name: Mateusz Moskalik PI email: mmoskfoo(at)igf.edu.pl PI ORCID: 0000-0002-0615-9528 PI Institution: Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences PI Department: Department of Polar and Marine Research
  • PI name: Agnieszka Herman PI email: agahermanfoo(at)iopan.pl PI ORCID: 0000-0001-5112-7165 PI Institution: Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences PI Department: Physical Oceanography Department
Dataset Owner
  • Owner name: Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences Owner PIC (Participant Identification Code): 996625337 Owner address: Ksiecia Janusza 64, 01-452 Warszawa, Poland
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Dataset status Complete
Activity type
  • in-situ measurements
  • long-term monitoring
Access constraint Open
Embargo
Dataset modified 2023-01-17
Metadata created 2023-01-17
Quality statement Not quality controlled
Quality Editor
  • Editor name: Oskar Glowacki Editor email: oglowackifoo(at)igf.edu.pl Editor ORCID: 0000-0002-5164-0206 Editor Institution: Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Spatial distribution { "coordinates": [ [ [ 14.24, 77.22 ], [ 16.83, 77.22 ], [ 16.83, 76.82 ], [ 14.24, 76.82 ], [ 14.24, 77.22 ] ] ], "type": "Polygon" }
Region Svalbard, Spitsbergen, Hornsund
Start time 2013-07-21 02:00 CEST
End time 2021-02-13 00:59 CET
Dataset citation Swirad Z.M, Moskalik M. Herman A. 2023. In situ wind wave and water level measurements in Hornsund, Svalbard in 2013-2021. PANGAEA
Dataset DOI 10.1594/PANGAEA.954020
External resource
  • Resource URL: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.954224?format=html#download
Publication
  • Publication title: Swirad Z.M., Moskalik M., Herman A. 2023. Wind wave and water level dataset for Hornsund, Svalbard (2013–2021). Earth System Science Data Publication DOI: 10.5194/essd-15-2623-2023
Project
  • Project title: Wave energy delivery to the shores of Hornsund fjord, Svalbard Project ID: UMO-2021/40/C/ST10/00146 Project description: This study focuses on modelling wave energy delivery to the shores of Hornsund, a ~300 km2 fjord of SW Spitsbergen, Svalbard, through 1) a fjord-scale modelling of wind wave transformation that incorporates the role of sea ice in wave attenuation, and 2) a beach-scale empirical modelling of water level maxima. The overall goal is to understand how changing climate, namely sea ice decline and increasing storminess, impacts Arctic shores, and to predict shoreline water levels at present and in future. Project homepage: https://projekty.ncn.gov.pl/en/index.php?projekt_id=509796 Project financing institution: National Science Centre, Poland