From April 24 to October 25, 2011, an Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter(ADV) continually running for 185 d was mounted on the smooth ridge at the edge of Monterey Canyon to observe turbulence in the bottom boundary layer. The ADV was set at 1.4 m above the bed bottom, continuously run for 1 min with a 2-minute interval with sampling frequency 64 Hz. The long-time continual observation is significant to reveal variations of turbulent characteristics and show some differences from the classic traditional turbulent theory. Eliminating the noise by the ‘Phase-Space Thresholding Method', rotating the coordinate and low-pass filtering the velocity were applied for data processing. This paper was mainly to estimate the turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rate by the inertial dissipation method, friction velocity, drag coefficient and significant periods of the turbulent characteristics with the ADV data. The results show that there is a strong, rotating bottom flow up to 0.398 m s-1 with predominantly semidiurnal period and less significantly diurnal and semilunar period. The turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rate ranges from 1.09×10-8 W kg-1 to 6.62×10-5 Wkg-1, which can vary with 2 or 3 orders of magnitude in one day. The daily averaged variations of friction velocity and drag coefficient are 6.50×10-3–2.32×10-2 m s-1 and 6.30×10-3–4.36×10-2, respectively. All the characteristics have a remarkable semidiurnal period. In the bottom boundary layer with a rotating tide, the parameterized coefficients to describe ε-u* and ε-Et relationships are much smaller than the traditional value.
