**Abstract Text**
Wind- and boat-generated waves are considered to have substantial impact on riverbanks particularly in relatively large, wide and impounded rivers, and in waterways where commercial and recreational boat traffic is frequent. Despite these concerns, direct measurements of boat and wind generated waves in inland waterways is limited. In this study, field measurements of boat-generated and wind-generated waves were carried out at three sites located along a reach of Tennessee River between Pickwick Dam and Savannah, TN between March 2019 and September 2020 to investigate the relative contribution of wave impact on riverbank erosion. At each site, waves were measured by 3 m-long capacitance type self-logging wave staffs with a 30 Hz measurement frequency. Wind speed and direction were measured intermittently at two sites. A time-lapse camera was also installed at each location to monitor boat traffic. Individual boat passes were manually identified after filtering out the wind waves in the measured time-series data. Boat wave properties and boat traffic at the three sites were obtained. Wind generated wave properties (i.e. significant wave height, Hm0 and peak-wave period, Tp) were obtained by analyzing the collected data. Wind measurements were compared with the Muscle Sholes Airport, AL weather station for some period during the study. A subset of the recorded data, during which wind speed was significantly high, wind direction was in line with the longest fetch and boating activity was minimum was selected for comparison with The Joint North Sea Wave Project (JONSWAP) fetch-limited wave prediction model. The wind fetch was approximated as the straight-line distance in the wind direction from the wave measurement site to the Bankline. This paper pr



Boat- and Wind-Generated Wave Measurements in the Tennessee River (Room 322, Tuesday June 27th, 2:00pm-3:30pm)

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