Effect of Wind on Surface Water Flows

Project Investigator: Harry Jenter Project Start Date: 1997 End Date: 1999 Proposals Data Metadata Publications Related Links

Summary

This project will study the effect of wind on water movement in the Everglades wetlands and bordering subtidal embayments.

The objective of this project is to provide key information regarding the effect of wind on surface water flow to those attempting to model that type of flow in South Florida. This information will improve the representation of the physical processes involved in moving the water in and through the Everglades. In addition, it will improve the design and implementation of data collection efforts necessary to provide boundary conditions used to drive the flow models. The overall strategy of this study involves three components: (1) a series of experiments using an enclosed wind cowling constructed on top of the indoor flume at Stennis Space Center to study vegetative effects, (2) collection of a number of contemporaneous time-series measurements of wind speed and direction from instruments already deployed at various locations within the Everglades and bordering embayments, (3) combination of results from these two efforts to provide improved wind forcing and boundary conditions for surface water models.

Proposals

• 1999

Data

• Wind Data (from the data exchange pages)

Metadata

• Effect of Wind on Surface-Water Flows (project metadata)
• NPS stage-rain sites (data set metadata)
• NPS wind sites (data set metadata)
• Wind data (data set metadata)

Publications

Abstracts

• Effect of Wind on Surface Water Flows

Bibliographies

• Effect of Wind on Surface Water Flows - Bibliography

Papers

• Locally-Forced Wind Effects on Shallow Waters with Emergent Vegetation (from the proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Ecohydraulics, July 1999)

Related Links

• Tides and Inflows in the Mangroves of the Everglades (TIME)