US ARMY ENGINEER WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION COASTAL AND HYDRAULICS LABORATORY FIELD RESEARCH FACILITY INFORMATION FOR SEDIMENT DATA USERS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT STATEMENT The staff of the Field Research Facility (FRF) is pleased to provide you with nearshore data for your research use. These data exist because of the dedicated efforts of a small staff of researchers and technicians often under adverse (but always interesting) conditions. Since your use of these data helps to justify their efforts, and helps to insure future support for the FRF, it is important to properly acknowledge the source of the data in your publications. A suggested acknowledgement is: "These data were provided by the Field Research Facility of the US Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station's Coastal Engineering Research Center. Permission to use the data is appreciated." We also request that you forward a copy of your paper/publication to the: Librarian Field Research Facility US Army Corps of Engineers 1261 Duck Road Kitty Hawk, NC 27949 WHO TO TELL THAT YOU HAVE COPIED THIS DATA? We would like to keep track of who has these data and what analysis is being performed for several reasons. 1) If we later discover problems, we can alert data users about it. 2) We are required to keep track of user statistics to help justify the collection of these data. 3) We may be able to alert you to similar studies of these data which may help in your research. 4) If we know of your research ideas, we may be able to advise you on the suitability of these data based on our expertise in collecting these data. IF YOU HAVE ACQUIRED THESE DATA EITHER DIRECTLY FROM US OR FROM SOMEONE ELSE PLEASE EMAIL THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION TO: c.baron@cerc.wes.army.mil 1)Name 2)Address 3)Phone 4)Internet 5)Data files acquired 6)Short description of your research plan 7)Comments WHO TO CONTACT? Refer questions concerning these data to Mr. Bill Birkemeier at 919-261-3511 (phone), 919-261-4432 (FAX), or internet mail to: b.birkimier@cerc.wes.army.mil REFERENCES The sediment data included here have been reported in: Stauble, D.K. & Cialone, M.A. (1997), "Sediment Dynamics and Profile Interactions: DUCK94" Coastal Engineering 1996 - Proceedings of the twenty-fifth international conference, Vol. 4 This report provides considerable detail concerning how the data were collected, some analysis of the data, and listings of the data. Please consult this report for details. DESCRIPTION OF THE FRF SEDIMENT DATA FORMAT Notes: Lines are numbered 1-9,A-Z Fortran write statement included for reference. To display data file on a PC screen, max record length is 79 characters 1. Line No.1 - SAMPLE Line LOCAL - Locality, Study Beach or Project (A2) TYPE - Sample Type G-grab, V-vibracore, R-ROSCOS (A1) SAMPLE - Sample number, (A8) LINE - Line Number ('1') DATE - Date Sample taken (YRMODA), (I6) PROJECT - Project Title (A47) ADATE - Date of Analysis (YRMODA), (I6) INITIAL - Analyzers initials (A3) --- WRITE Statement: LINE 1 --- WRITE(8,9000)LOCAL,TYPE,SAMPLE,DATE,TIME,PROJECT,ADATE,INITIAL 9000 FORMAT(A2,A1,A8,'1',I6,I5,A47,I6,A3) 2. LINE No.2 LOCATION COORDINATES LOCAL - Locality, Study Beach or Project (A2) TYPE - Sample Type G-grab, V-vibracore, R-ROSCOS (A1) SAMPLE - Sample number, (A8) LINE - LINE Number ('2') COORD - Coordinate System (A1) W - Lat. Long., S - State Plane, L - Local UNITS - Units of Position data (A1) F - feet, M - meters X,Y - Local or State plane horizontal coordinates (2F10.2) Z - Elevation of sample (F7.2) DATUM - Datum abbreviation (A4) MSL, NGVD, MLW etc. LAT, LONG - Latitude and Longitude (2F10.6) CORELN - Core Length (F6.2) DEPTH - Depth of sample in core (F6.2) DUNITS - Units of core measurements (1X,A1) F - feet, C - centimeter, M - meters --- WRITE Statement: LINE 2 --- WRITE(8,9010)LOCAL,TYPE,SAMPLE,COORD,UNITS,X,Y,Z,DATUM,LAT,LONG, $CORELN,DEPTH,DUNITS 9010 FORMAT(A2,A1,A8,'2',2A1,2F10.2,F7.2,A4,2F10.6,2F6.2,1X,A1) 3. LINE No. 3-5 SAMPLE WEIGHT, STANDARD SIEVE FRACTIONAL WEIGHTS Note: Similar LINEs but different line numbers for RSA or non-standard data This set of three lines requires two arrays PHIOUT and STDPHI defined as follows: INTEGER PHIOUT(39) REAL STDPHI(39) The fractional percentage data are converted to integer (2 decimals) and mapped into the PHIOUT array according to the array of PHI sizes stored in STDPHI. This is further complicated by using the first 3 values of the PHIOUT array to hold: PHIOUT(1)=pre-analytical weight (PAT) (after carbonate removed) PHIOUT(2)=post analytical weight (PAW) PHIOUT(3)=smallest PHI interval Further notes on PHIOUT - to denote empty sieves (as opposed to ones not included in the analysis) are denoted by an entry of 9900 (99%). Standard Phi values are: DATA STDPHI/0.,0.,0.,-5.,-4.,-3.,-2.,-1.75,-1.5,-1.25,-1.,-.75, $-.5,-.25,0.,.25,.5,.75,1.0,1.25,1.5,1.75,2.,2.25,2.5,2.75,3., $3.25,3.5,3.75,4.,4.25,4.5,4.75,5.,6.,7.,8.,9./ note: ignore first 3 zero values. LINE 3 LOCAL - Locality, Study Beach or Project (A2) TYPE - Sample Type G-grab, V-vibracore, R-ROSCOS (A1) SAMPLE - Sample number, (A8) LINE - LINE Number ('3') PHIOUT(I) - I=1,13 (2X,13I5) LINE 4 LOCAL - Locality, Study Beach or Project (A2) TYPE - Sample Type G-grab, V-vibracore, R-ROSCOS (A1) SAMPLE - Sample number, (A8) LINE - LINE Number ('4') PHIOUT(I) - I=14,26 (2X,13I5) LINE 5 LOCAL - Locality, Study Beach or Project (A2) TYPE - Sample Type G-grab, V-vibracore, R-ROSCOS (A1) SAMPLE - Sample number, (A8) LINE - LINE Number ('5') PHIOUT(I) - I=27,39 (2X,13I5) --- WRITE Statement: LINES 3-5 --- J=1 DO 100 I=3,5 WRITE(8,9000)LOCAL,TYPE,SAMPLE,I,(PHIOUT(K),K=J,(J+11)) 9000 FORMAT(A2,A1,A8,I1,2X,13I5) J=J+13 100 CONTINUE 4. LINE No. 6 - PERCENTAGE COMPOSITION LINE LOCAL - Locality, Study Beach or Project (A2) TYPE - Sample Type G-grab, V-vibracore, R-ROSCOS (A1) SAMPLE - Sample number, (A8) LINE - Line Number ('6') WGRAVL - Wentworth Gravel Content (F7.2) WSAND - Wentworth Sand content (F7.2) WSILT - Wentworth Silt content (F7.2) WCLAY - Wentworth and Unified Clay content (F7.2) SHELL - Percent Carbonate (F7.2) UGRAVL - Unified Gravel content (F7.2) USAND - Unified Sand content (F7.2) USILT - Unified Silt content (F7.2) SHEPCLAS - Shepard Class of sample (I3) --- WRITE Statement: LINE 6 --- WRITE(8,9500)LOCAL,TYPE,SAMPLE,LINE,WGRAVL,WSAND,WSILT,WCLAY,SHELL, $UGRAVL,USAND,USILT,SHEPCLAS 9500 FORMAT(A2,A1,A8,A1,8F7.2,I3) 5. LINE No. 7 - STATISTICS LINE LOCAL - Locality, Study Beach or Project (A2) TYPE - Sample Type G-grab, V-vibracore, R-ROSCOS (A1) SAMPLE - Sample number, (A8) LINE - LINE Number ('7') PMEDIAN - Median (PHI) (F5.2) FOLK(1) - Folk Graphic Mean (PHI) (F5.2) FOLK(2) - Folk Graphic Standard Deviation (PHI) (F6.3) FOLK(3) - Folk Graphic Skewnwss (PHI) (F6.3) FOLK(4) - Folk Graphic Kurtosis (PHI) (F6.3) MOMENT(1) - Moment Mean (PHI) (F5.2) MOMENT(2) - Moment Standard Deviation (PHI) (F6.3) MOMENT(3) - Moment Skewness (PHI) (F6.3) MOMENT(4) - Moment Kurtosis (PHI) (F6.3) MMEDIAN - Median (mm) (F6.3) MMEAN - Mean (mm) (F6.3) --- WRITE Statement: LINE 7 --- WRITE(8,9510)LOCAL,TYPE,SAMPLE,PMEDIAN,(FOLK(I),I=1,4), $(MOMENT(I),I=1,4),MMEDIAN,MMEAN 9510 FORMAT(A2,A1,A8,'7',2F5.2,3F6.3,F5.2,3F6.3,2F6.3) 6. LINE Z - FINAL DESCRIPTION LINE LOCAL - Locality, Study Beach or Project (A2) TYPE - Sample Type G-grab, V-vibracore, R-ROSCOS (A1) SAMPLE - Sample number, (A8) LINE - Line number ('Z') COMMENT - Sample comment or description (A67) --- WRITE Statement: LINE 8 --- WRITE(8,9190)LOCAL,TYPE,SAMPLE,COMMENT 9190 FORMAT(A2,A1,A8,'Z',A67)