Flow velocity from Bonnet Carre Spillway (Mississippi River freshwater diversion into Lake Pontchartrain) on April 16, 2008

Title:  Flow velocity from Bonnet Carre Spillway (Mississippi River freshwater diversion into Lake Pontchartrain) on April 16, 2008

Author: Li, Chunyan

Contact/PI: Li, C. (cli@lsu.edu)

Description:

The data provided here are measured flow velocity profiles across the Bonnet Carre Spillway which is a lower Mississippi River freshwater diversion connected to Lake Pontchartrain. The survey was done on April 16, 2008. Time is UTC.

There are 11 files for current profiles from an ADCP mounted on a small boat running across the spillway inside Lake Pontchartrain. The instrument is a 1200 kHz RDI ADCP. All these files are ASCII files. These files are output from the RDI’s program WinRiver II. The file names are:

LakePontBonnetCarre000_ASC.TXT

LakePontBonnetCarre001_ASC.TXT

LakePontBonnetCarre002_ASC.TXT

LakePontBonnetCarre003_ASC.TXT

LakePontBonnetCarre004_ASC.TXT

LakePontBonnetCarre005_ASC.TXT

LakePontBonnetCarre006_ASC.TXT

LakePontBonnetCarre007_ASC.TXT

LakePontBonnetCarre008_ASC.TXT

LakePontBonnetCarre009_ASC.TXT

LakePontBonnetCarre010_ASC.TXT