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OSW Hydroacoustics

Review of ADCP Discharge Measurement Data

Tuesday

Introductions and Overview of Class

Review OSW Policy on ADCP�s & Discharge Measurements

Discharge measurement procedures

Overview of WinRiver including

Demo use of WinRiver for an example Qm

Use of RGTest, BBTalk, and other utility programs

Direct commands and WinRiver

Processing ADCP Qm�s

Exercise - Processing ADCP Qm's

Review the answers and the data

Wednesday

Review Water Modes and Bottom Modes

How WinRiver Computes Discharge

Extrapolation methods

How WinRiver deals with bad bins, bad ensembles and lost ensembles

Use of thresholds

Playback data (using thresholds as needed) and prepare Qm Wizard

Review of ADCP Discharge Measurement Data

Moving bed issues and Alternatives to use of DGPS

Thursday

User presentation of data/problems

Open Forum