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Currents in the St. Johns River, Florida Spring and Summer of 1998

By Bourgerie, Richard

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Title: Currents in the St. Johns River, Florida Spring and Summer of 1998  
Author: Bourgerie, Richard
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Language: English
Subject: Science., Ecology & environment, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (U.S.)
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Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv LIST OF TABLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi ABSTRACT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii 1. INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1 Previous Measurements of Currents and Water Levels in the St. Johns River . . 1 1.2 General Description of the St. Johns River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. PROJECT DESCRIPTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.1 Station Locations and Observation Periods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.2 Instrumentation and Sampling Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.3 Data Processing and Quality Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3. CURRENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3.1 Harmonic Analysis and Tidal Constituents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 3.2 St. Johns River Entrance (J1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 3.3 Mayport Basin Entrance (J2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 3.4 Inner Mayport Basin (J3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 3.5 Intracoastal Waterway Intersection (J4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 3.6 East Blount Island (J7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 3.7 Dames Point Bridge (J5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 3.8 Trout River Cut (J6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 4. RESPONSE OF THE CURRENTS AND WATER LEVELS TO A STORM EVENT . . 33 5. SUMMARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 6. DATA AND INFORMATION PRODUCTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 REFERENCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 APPENDIX A. Photographs of Field Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 APPENDIX B. Tidal Current Tables, 2000 (Tables 1 and 2 for the St. Johns River) . . . . . . 47 APPENDIX C. Notice-to-Mariners issued on December 15, 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

 
 



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