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Coastal turbidity on the shelf of American Samoa - monitoring turbid water sources and fates by satellite - Ofu, Olosega, and Ta'u reefs (ONSP6) (NCEI Accession 0204269)

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Relative turbidity, bathymetry, and environmental correlates (modeled wave height) for insular shelf of American Samoa- from 2002 to 2017 - Ofu, Olosega, and Ta'u region of interest (ONSP6). Data are in gridded netCDF binary format - Hierarchical Data Format (version 5), "NETCDF4 CLASSIC_MODEL".

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0204269 BATHYMETRY turbidity WATER COLOR WAVE HEIGHT - SIGNIFICANT MODIS model output satellite data

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title Coastal turbidity on the shelf of American Samoa - monitoring turbid water sources and fates by satellite - Ofu, Olosega, and Ta'u reefs (ONSP6) (NCEI Accession 0204269)

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