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Title: Currents, temperature, conductivity, and attenuation data from moorings deployed off the coast of Northern California as part of the Sediment Transport on Shelves and Slopes experiment from the platforms FARNELLA and WECOMA from December 5, 1988 to March 10, 1991 (NODC Accession 0067577)
Abstract: Office of Naval Research experiment on the California continental margin to investigate storm-driven sediment transport. Deployment of near-bottom moored array to investigate mixing and sediment transport in the bottom boundary layer.
Date received: 20100930
Start date: 19881205
End date: 19910310
Seanames: North Pacific Ocean
West boundary: -123.5564
East boundary: -123.4269
North boundary: 38.6722
South boundary: 38.6118
Observation types: physical, time series
Instrument types: current meter, mooring, thermometer
Datatypes: Attenuation/Transmission, CONDUCTIVITY, CURRENT METER - EAST-WEST COMPONENT (U), CURRENT METER - NORTH-SOUTH COMPONENT (V), WATER TEMPERATURE
Submitter: Montgomery, Ellyn
Submitting institution: US DOI; US Geological Survey; Woods Hole Science Center
Collecting institutions: US DOI; US Geological Survey; Woods Hole Science Center
Contributing projects:
Platforms: FARNELLA (74AE), moorings (pid: 2565), WECOMA (32WC)
Number of observations:
Supplementary information: This archival package contains only a snapshot of the USGS time series database. The data on the originator's website, http://stellwagen.er.usgs.gov/, may have updates that are not yet captured here.

USGS PIs: B. Butman, D. Cacchione

Collaborators: Office of Naval Research, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and others.
Availability date:
Metadata version: 4
Keydate: 2010-09-30 19:37:46+00
Editdate: 2012-03-16 13:30:46+00