CDIP’s Documentation
Contents:
- Introduction to CDIP
- Wave Measurement
- Instrumentation
- Data Acquisition
- Data Processing
- Data Management
- CDIP Products
- California Wave Models
- Data Access
- Frequently Asked Questions: General Queries
- Time Zones and Units
- Related Sites
- Glossary of Coastal Engineering Terms
- Accelerometer
- Acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP)
- Amplitude, wave
- Astronomical tide
- Attenuation
- Bar
- Basin, boat
- Basin surge, energy basin
- Bathymetry
- Bight
- Boundary current
- Buoy
- Capillary wave
- Chop
- Conductivity
- Crest of wave
- Current, longshore
- Current meter
- Decay of waves
- Deep water
- Deep water waves
- Depth
- Diffraction of waves
- Diurnal tide
- Downwelling
- DP
- Dredging
- Echo sounder
- Ekman transport
- El nino
- Estuary
- Eularian measurement
- Fathometer
- Fetch
- Foam line
- Forecasting of waves
- Gauge (Gage)
- Geographic information system (GIS)
- Global positioning system (GPS)
- Gravity wave
- Harbor oscillation (harbor surging)
- Heave
- High tide, high water (HW)
- Hindcasting
- HS
- Hydrography
- Incident wave
- Inclination, magnetic
- Infragravity wave, long waves
- Irregular waves
- Jetty
- Kurtosis
- Lagrangian measurement
- Longshore
- Longshore bar
- Low tide (low water, LW)
- Mean lower low water (MLLW)
- Mean sea level
- Mean wave height
- Monochromatic waves
- Nautical mile
- Nearshore
- Oceanography
- Peak direction
- Peak period
- Pier
- Propagation of waves
- Random waves
- Reflected wave
- Reflection
- Refraction of waves
- Regular waves
- Salinity
- Sea, seas
- Sea state
- Sea surface temperature
- Secchi disk
- Seiche
- Semidiurnal tide
- Setup, wave
- Shallow water
- Shore normal
- Significant wave
- Significant wave height
- Skewness
- Sonar
- Sst
- Storm surge
- Surf
- Surf beat
- Surf zone
- Surface gravity wave (progressive)
- Surge
- Swash
- Swell
- Thermocline
- Tide
- TP
- Transect
- Trough of wave
- Tsunami
- Turbidity
- Turbulence
- Upwelling
- Velocity of waves
- Water depth
- Wave
- Wave climate
- Wave direction
- Wave frequency
- Wave height
- Wave period
- Wave rose
- Wave spectrum
- Wave steepness
- Wave train
- Wavelength
- Wind rose
- Wind sea
- Wind waves