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2. REPORT TYPE
1. REPORT DATE (DD-MM-YYYY)
3. DATES COVERED (From - To)
Final report
September 2002
4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE
5a. CONTRACT NUMBER
Eastcoast 2001, A Tidal Constituent Database for Western North Atlantic, Gulf of
5b. GRANT NUMBER
Mexico, and Caribbean Sea
5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER
6. AUTHOR(S)
5d. PROJECT NUMBER
A. Y. Mukai, J. J. Westerink, R. A. Luettich, Jr., D. Mark
5e. TASK NUMBER
5f. WORK UNIT NUMBER
7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES)
8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT
NUMBER
See reverse.
ERDC/CHL TR-02-24
9. SPONSORING / MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES)
10. SPONSOR/MONITOR'S ACRONYM(S)
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Washington, DC 20314-1000
11. SPONSOR/MONITOR'S REPORT
NUMBER(S)
12. DISTRIBUTION / AVAILABILITY STATEMENT
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
13. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES
14. ABSTRACT
The Eastcoast 2001 tidal constituent database described in this report was developed by the University of Notre Dame. The work
was performed as an activity of the Inlet Modeling System (IMS) Work Unit, Coastal Inlets Research Program (CIRP), of Headquarters,
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (HQUSACE). This IMS research and development product was conducted under contract DACW 42-
00-C-0006 with the U.S. Army Research and Development Center (ERDC), Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL), Vicksburg, MS.
This report describes the development of the Eastcoast 2001 database of computed tidal elevation and velocity constituents within
the Western North Atlantic Tidal (WNAT) domain. The WNAT domain encompasses the Western North Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of
Mexico, and Caribbean Sea. The computations are based on a strategically designed finite element grid and the coastal hydrodynamic
circulation model, ADCIRC. The resulting Eastcoast 2001 database defines the computed elevation and velocity amplitude and phase
for the O1, K1, Q1, M2, S2, N2, and K2 tidal constituents.
The Eastcoast 2001 database is significantly more accurate than the previous Eastcoast 1995 and Eastcoast 1991 databases based
on the following feature improvements: a) a new grid generation technique with better node placement and distribution, b) a signifi-
cantly greater number of total nodes, c) a more accurate coastal boundary, and d) inclusion of more reliable bathymetric databases.
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