Characteristic Numbers of Current Velocity (independent of tides)

Motivation

Calculation and graphic display of several tide-independent characteristic numbers of current velocity can yield additional insight into velocity related phenomena of natural coastal and/or inland waters. In contrast to the computation of the tidal characteristic numbers of salinity the tide-independent numbers can be preferable used for

• natural waters which are not dominated by the tides, e.g. like the coastal waters and estuaries along the Baltic Sea coast of Germany, or in
• determination of characteristic values of current velocity for an arbitrary long (or short) period of time.

In particular there are several useful applications possible for this type of data analysis, for example:

• From the computed times for the duration of high current velocity and the duration of low current velocity one can draw conclusions with respect to the impact of current velocity on organisms living in the water or along the beaches.

An automatic analysis of all Characteristic Numbers of Current Velocity Data is carried through by the computer program LZKVF.