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OAS accession Detail for 9900222
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| accessions_id: | 9900222 | archive |
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| Title: | Observations of current, temperature, pressure, conductivity and light transmission collected by the U.S. Geological Survey Sediment Dynamics Project, 1974-1992 (NCEI Accession 9900222) |
| Abstract: | This CDROM contains time series data collected by the Coastal Circulation and Sediment Transport Group of the Branch of Atlantic Marine Geology, U. S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The data were collected between 1974 and 1992 as part of field experiments to investigate the regional water circulation and sediment transport on selected portions of the U.S. continental margin. Included on this CDROM are measurements of water velocity, water temperature, salinity, conductivity, and pressure, which aid in understanding the causes of the currents and the sources of the waters; and measurements of the transmission and reflection of light by the water, which are indirect measures of the volume of sediment suspended in the water. Coastal sea level and meteorological observations are also included which have been collected by other agencies but archived to aid in the interpretation and analysis of the observations. These data were collected in economically and environmentally critical areas, mostly on the Atlantic Coast of the United States, including productive fishing grounds, submarine canyons, harbors and bays along the heavily settled Northeast, and sites proposed for petroleum development and waste disposal. The data presented on this CD ROM were collected in a series of experiments designed to investigate aspects of the circulation and sediment transport on selected portions of the Atlantic and Pacific margins. In most cases, arrays of instruments were deployed for periods of 1-4 months. In some regions, a series of arrays were deployed over a period of several years. Long-term observations, 2 years or longer in length, were made at several locations to document seasonal and inter-annual variability and to provide a long-term context for the shorter array experiments. Analysis of these observations have been presented in numerous publications. |
| Date received: | 20000301 |
| Start date: | 19770919 |
| End date: | 19780124 |
| Seanames: | Coastal Waters of California, Georges Bank, Gulf of Maine, Mid-Atlantic Bight, North Atlantic Ocean, North Pacific Ocean |
| West boundary: | -177.5706 |
| East boundary: | -62.8058 |
| North boundary: | 54.4884 |
| South boundary: | 14.9652 |
| Observation types: | continuous, current measurements, physical, time series |
| Instrument types: | CTD - moored CTD, C-T recorder, current meter, transmissometer |
| Datatypes: | BEAM ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT, CURRENT DIRECTION, CURRENT SPEED, DEPTH - SENSOR, LIGHT TRANSMISSION, WATER TEMPERATURE, WIND DIRECTION, WIND SPEED |
| Submitter: | Butman, Dr. Bradford |
| Submitting institution: | US DOI; US Geological Survey; Woods Hole Science Center |
| Collecting institutions: | US DOI; US Geological Survey; Woods Hole Science Center |
| Contributing projects: | CHSD |
| Platforms: | |
| Number of observations: | 24264 |
| Supplementary information: | Note: Metadata for this accession were extracted from a legacy database maintained by the U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). The design of the database did not exactly reflect the FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM). Principal Investigator (PI) and organization contact information accurately represents all available information from the legacy database at the time that this description was created. However, proper attribution of a PI to a specific institution or the role (submitting or collecting) taken by an institution may not be correct due to inexact mapping between fields in the legacy database and the CSDGM. Due to this uncertainty, the contact information was initially recorded in the Supplemental Information element of the CSDGM description. To develop more accurate metadata, NCEI reviews metadata for all accessions on an ongoing basis. Points of contact for this data set include: Contact info: Agency: US DOI; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY - WOODS HOLE PI: Butman, Dr. Brad Address: address: NOT AVAILABLE city: WOODS HOLE state: MA postal: NOT AVAILABLE country: UNITED STATES |
| Availability date: | 20000301 |
| Metadata version: | 6 |
| Keydate: | 2002-11-19 19:40:22+00 |
| Editdate: | 2024-04-23 19:11:15+00 |