SMS:CMS-Wave Monitoring Station Output File

CMS-Wave can include monitoring stations that will extract the calculated data values including the wave height, period and direction. The extracted values are stored in the CMS-Wave monitoring station output file (selhts.out). This file will only be created if a monitoring station data is specified in the control file. In SMS, monitoring stations are created as a cell attribute in the Cartesian grid.

File format

The selhts.out file uses a fifteen column format as shown in the table below:

Column Number		Value
1		Spectrum label (or time stamp)
2		I index in Cartesian (i,j) or ij index in quadtree mesh
3		J index in Cartesian (i,j) or 0 (dummy) in quadtree mesh
4		Significant wave height (meters)
5		Spectral peak wave period (seconds)
6		Mean wave direction (degrees, local coordinate system)
7		Swell height (meters)
8		Swell wave period (seconds)
9		Swell direction (degrees)
10		Local-generated wave height (meters)
11		Local-generated wave period (seconds)
12		local-generated wave direction (degrees)
13		Wave breaking index (non-zero for breaking)
14		Max water elevation mark (meters), include wave run-up if calculated
15		Flow discharge rate (m*m/sec) at structure cells if calculated

Example

Below is an example of the selhts.out text file.

           1   50   70  1.036 20.00   23.2    0.00  0.00    0.0    0.00  0.00    0.0     0  0.518   0.00
           1   92   66  0.763 20.00  -13.9    0.00  0.00    0.0    0.00  0.00    0.0     0  0.382   0.00
           1  110   60  0.169 20.00   -8.2    0.00  0.00    0.0    0.00  0.00    0.0     0  0.085   0.00
           2   50   70  0.010  1.00    0.0    0.00  0.00    0.0    0.00  0.00    0.0     0  0.005   0.00
           2   92   66  0.010  1.00    0.0    0.00  0.00    0.0    0.00  0.00    0.0     0  0.005   0.00
           2  110   60  0.010  1.00    0.0    0.00  0.00    0.0    0.00  0.00    0.0     0  0.005   0.00
           3   50   70  0.010  1.00    0.0    0.00  0.00    0.0    0.00  0.00    0.0     0  0.005   0.00
           3   92   66  0.010  1.00    0.0    0.00  0.00    0.0    0.00  0.00    0.0     0  0.005   0.00
           3  110   60  0.010  1.00    0.0    0.00  0.00    0.0    0.00  0.00    0.0     0  0.005   0.00

Related Topics

• CMS-Wave Files