Tidal Currents and Current Measurement at Race Rocks

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The current at Race Rocks had just changed to a flood – it would be getting up to 6 knots in a few hours, so it was probably at about 5 knots at this time.

currentnowsTidal Current Predictions for  Race Passage
Prediction: Graph 

 

Race Passage Current tables, 2021

 

 

 

ADCP6Along with the installation of the Tidal Current turbine,  an ADCP was installed to give real time profiles of the Currents at Race Rocks. See the attached file for the type of profile that was generated:Sample of the result of the data analysis at Site 1:

 

sw24mThe Creation of the Race Passage Current Tables

 

 

 

Map of Currents at Race Rocks from ADCP tests

 

 

 

 

awac2See the video on wave and current measurement using the Acoustic Wave and Current instrument.

 

 

waterpropertiesWater Properties in Juan de Fuca

 

 

 

 

cursymbField Lab on Current Studies using Drogues.

 

 

 

tomiondeck1stomiondeck1sOceanographic
Research on Mixing in upwellings
of Race Rocks

 

 

kallesKalle Kallestrom’s essay on The biotic associations on the Current meter Block

 

 

 

deweysStratified Tidal Flow over a Bump
Richard Dewey,et al–Interactions of stratified flow on an isolated topographic feature: a bump to the east of Race Rocks.

 

ebbs MATLAB charts of barotropic currents to the east of Race Rocks.

 

 

 

generatorsLink to the Tidal Current Power Project