| Abstract: | Detroit River is a connecting channel on the Great Lakes waterway that joins Lake St. Clair with Lake Erie. The river forms part of the international boundary between the United States and Canada in southeastern Michigan and southern Ontario. Drifting buoys were deployed on Detroit River to help investigate flow characteristics of four selected reaches as part of a source water assessment study of public water intakes. The drifting buoys contained global positioning system (GPS) receivers to help track their movements following their deployment. In some deployments, buoys were released across a transect at approximately uniform intervals to better understand flow patterns. In other deployments, buoys were released in clusters to investigate turbulent dispersion characteristics. Computer animations of buoy movements, which can be viewed through the Internet, are developed to help visualize the results of the buoy deployments. |
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| ProdID: | 50593 |
| Citation Author: | Holtschlag, David J.; Aichele, Steve A. |
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| Citation Series Number: | 2002-1 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Visualization of drifting buoy deployments on upper Detroit River within the Great Lakes Waterway from August 28-30, 2001; 2002; OFR; 2002-1; Holtschlag, David J.; Aichele, Steve A. |
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| Text: | Visualization of drifting buoy deployments on upper Detroit River within the Great Lakes Waterway from August 28-30, 2001; 2002; OFR; 2002-1; Holtschlag, David J.; Aichele, Steve A. |
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| URL (INDEX PAGE): | http://pubs.water.usgs.gov/ofr02001 |
| Date Other: | Sat, 1 Jan 1994 00:00 -0600 |
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