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Physical, biological and optical oceanographic data collected from moored buoys in the Bering Strait from 08/16/2004 to 09/03/2007 (NCEI Accession 0045300)

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Physical, current meter, biological, and optical oceanographic data were collected in the Bering Strait from August 16, 2004 to September 3, 2007. These data were collected by the University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory personnel from moored buoys as part of the Russian-American Long-term Census of the Arctic project (RUSALCA). All data files are ASCII text with supplemental information in PDF format.

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