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Wave Measurements using Open Source Ship Mounted Ultrasonic Altimeter and Motion Correction System during the One Ocean Expedition
Judith Thu Ølberg, Patrik Bohlinger, Øyvind Breivik, Kai H. Christensen, Birgitte R. Furevik, Lars R. Hole, Gaute Hope, Atle Jensen, Fabian Knoblauch, Ngoc-Thanh Nguyen, Jean Rabault
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This study reviews the design and signal processing of ship borne ultrasonic altimeter wave measurements. The system combines a downward facing ultrasonic altimeter to capture the sea surface elevation as a time series, and an inertial measurement unit to compensate for the ship's motion. The methodology is cost-effective, open source, and adaptable to various ships and platforms. The system was installed on the barque Statsraad Lehmkuhl and recorded data continuously during the 20-month One Ocean Expedition. Results from 1-month crossing of the Tropical Atlantic are presented here. The one-dimensional wave spectrum and associated wave parameters are obtained from the sea surface elevation time series. The observed significant wave height agrees well with satellite altimetry and a spectral wave model. The agreement between observations and the spectral wave model is better for the mean wave period than the peak period. We perform Doppler shift corrections to improve wave period estimates by accounting for the speed of the ship relative to the waves. This correction enhances the accuracy of the mean period, but not the peak period. We suggest that the Doppler correction could be improved by complementing the data sources with directional wave measurements from a marine X-band radar.
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