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U.S. Geological Survey Oceanographic Time-Series Data Collection of measurements of current velocity, temperature, pressure and other data made in U.S. coastal waters between 1975 and present

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This collection includes time-series oceanographic data collected by U.S. Geological Survey investigators and collaborators as part of experiments to study circulation and sediment transport in the coastal ocean. The experiments were typically one month to several years long and were carried out between 1975 and the present. Measurements include current velocity, temperature, pressure, conductivity, light transmission (beam attenuation) among others. The experiments often focused on observations near the sea floor, but most also obtained some data in the water column. Data are provided at the fastest instrument sampling interval and often as hourly averages. Experiments longer than a few months may entail multiple, sequential instrument deployments; the data for these experiments are available as separate records.

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  "Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary",
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  "Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary",
  "North Atlantic Ocean",
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  "Recover current moorings, slope water mapping",
  "Salinity",
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  "ASTERIAS (ICES code: 31AA)",
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  "GARCIA DEL CID (call sign: EHUU, ICES code: 29GD)",
  "GLORITA (call sign: WSE338, ICES code: 32O7)",
  "GYRE (ICES code: 32GY)",
  "HORNBEAM (call sign: P3SF2, ICES code: 32HG)",
  "KILA (ICES code: 33KL)",
  "LULU (call sign: LANA4, ICES code: 315L)",
  "MARLIN (ICES code: 90MR)",
  "MARY LOUISE (ICES code: 32UN)",
  "MCARTHUR (ICES code: 31M4)",
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  "OCEANUS (call sign: WXAQ, ICES code: 32OC, 1976-)",
  "POINT SUR (call sign: WSC2276, ICES code: 32P0, 1980-)",
  "ROBERT GORDON SPROUL (call sign: WSQ2674, ICES code: 32QU, 1981-)",
  "SEWARD JOHNSON II (call sign: WTL4798, ICES code: 33S2, 2001-2006)",
  "WECOMA (call sign: WSD7079, ICES code: 32WC, 1976-)",
  "WHITEFOOT (ICES code: 32WH)",
  "YELLOWFIN (call sign: WSA3704, ICES code: 31YE)",
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  "OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF AMERICA",
  "OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MAINE",
  "OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MEXICO",
  "OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > MEDITERRANEAN SEA > ADRIATIC SEA",
  "OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > CENTRAL PACIFIC OCEAN > HAWAIIAN ISLANDS",
  "OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN",
  "6 miles south of Smith Point",
  "6 miles south of Smiths Point on Nantucket Shoals",
  "Boothbay Harbor",
  "Boston",
  "Boston Harbor",
  "Boston buoy B",
  "Buzzards Bay",
  "Cape Cod",
  "Cape Cod Bay",
  "Cape Porpoise",
  "Casco Bay",
  "Cleveland Ledge",
  "Continental Shelf south of Marthas Vineyard",
  "East Phinney Rock",
  "Georges Bank",
  "Georges Shoal",
  "Great South Channel",
  "Gulf of Maine",
  "Hudson Shelf Valley",
  "Jordan Basin",
  "Kennebec",
  "LNB Buoy",
  "Little Georges",
  "Lydonia Canyon",
  "Maine",
  "Manomet",
  "Marthas Vineyard Sound",
  "Massachusettes",
  "Massachusetts",
  "Massachusetts Bay",
  "Masschusetts",
  "McKown Point",
  "Mid-Atantic Shelf",
  "Mid-Atlantic Bight",
  "Mid-Atlantic Continental Shelf",
  "Mid-Atlantic Shelf",
  "Middle Atlantic Continental Shelf",
  "Monhegan",
  "Mud Patch",
  "Nantucket",
  "Nantucket Island",
  "Nantucket Shoals",
  "New Jersey Continental Shelf",
  "New York Bight",
  "New York Harbor",
  "North America",
  "North Atlantic",
  "North Atlantic Bight",
  "North AtlanticNantucket Shoals",
  "Oceanographer Canyon",
  "Phinney Rock",
  "Point McKown",
  "Rodgers Pass",
  "Rogers Pass",
  "Scituate",
  "Stellwagen Bank",
  "Stellwagen Basin",
  "Truxton Swell",
  "United States",
  "United States South Atlantic shelf",
  "Western Gulf of Maine",
  "Wilmington Canyon",
  "off Naushon Island",
  "off Scituate",
  "shelf south of Nantucket",
  "southern flank Georges Bank",
  "western Massachusetts Bay"
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license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
modified 2021-10-15T00:00:00.000+00:00
publisher 
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  "name": "NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information",
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rights otherRestrictions
spatial 13.88,16.626,-168.504,43.844
temporal 1975-05-08T00:00:00+00:00/1975-05-08T00:00:00+00:00
theme 
[
  "geospatial"
]
title U.S. Geological Survey Oceanographic Time-Series Data Collection of measurements of current velocity, temperature, pressure and other data made in U.S. coastal waters between 1975 and present

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