AWAC - Acoustic Wave and Current Stations (DOT-026)

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 26/06/2025

Short term acoustic wave and current data is collected using Nortek AWAC instruments. The AWAC instruments are deployed on a fixed mooring on the sea bed. The instruments are delayed mode systems where the data is stored in memory of the instrument as the data is collected. The data is retrieved from the instruments when the instruments are recovered from the water at the end of the deployment. The deployment period is determined by the battery life and memory capacity of the instrument. The raw binary data files downloaded from the instruments are post processed through specialist software to produce files of wave, current, temperature, water level and instrument status data. The post-process files are then archived without being analysed by DoT staff.

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Title AWAC - Acoustic Wave and Current Stations (DOT-026)
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/0d9eb6b5-66d3-4a46-94f9-2d662935547a
Remote Last Updated 25/06/2025
Contact Point
Department of Transport
tides@transport.wa.gov.au
Reference Period 21/03/2018
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal Western Australia Government

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Western Australia Government "AWAC - Acoustic Wave and Current Stations (DOT-026)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/awac-acoustic-wave-and-current-stations