Study of Nitinat Lake

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Study of Nitinat Lake

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A group at UBC Ciivil Engineering spent last summer studying the hydrology of Nitinat Lake.

They have posted their preliminary report (a Master's Thesis I think) at http://subcritical.civil.ubc.ca/~efmweb ... Rindex.htm

There is interesting wind and temperature data from last summer and a general discussion of the Lake.

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mb wrote:A group at UBC Ciivil Engineering spent last summer studying the hydrology of Nitinat Lake.
Excellent - thanks mb. Interesting Met data results. Looks like some good winds in Oct/Nov, but not much sun!

A conversion from m/s: 1 m/s = 1.94 knots or 1m/s ~ 2 knots

I wonder what type of averaging they did for the wind speeds. I don't see any winds in July > 10 knots, or am I missing something. Maybe it is a little sheltered across the lake, or they did some strange averaging.

Wow, that's quite the flood too > 4 metre rise in the lake Oct 17-20!

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Hope they present some interpretation in the report sometime. Otherwise, it doesn't say much. 18 deg water at the surface - pretty nice. Too bad they lost all their wind data from the log dump. "very rough conditions", 10 m per sec wind (20 kt) made data collecting too difficult to complete in the PM? THey should have done all their data collection work in the AM and sailed/kited in the PM!
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BWD - they had the second met station down at the "flats" at the SW end of the lake "Hidilhta'suk", thats why the wind is only 10 kt.
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more force 4 wrote:BWD - they had the second met station down at the "flats" at the SW end of the lake "Hidilhta'suk", thats why the wind is only 10 kt.
ah, thanks. I guess I should of read the text instead of just looking at the pictures.
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