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).

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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
Version
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 00:00 UTC
End time 2021-02-12 23:59 UTC
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
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