TEMPERATURE, SALINITY, and CURRENT VELOCITIES collected from a long-term FOCAL mooring in the Gulf of Mexico from 2007-10-01 to 2016-08-19 (NCEI Accession 0248354)

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This dataset contains temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, and current velocities obtained from the long-term Fisheries Oceanography in Coastal Alabama (FOCAL) mooring operated by the Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL). The mooring is located at 30°05.410'N, 88°12.694'W, along the 20-m isobath about 25 km southwest of Mobile Bay, Alabama. This dataset contains non-continuous data collected between 2007-10-01 and 2016-08-19 using a variety of instruments, including thermistors, CTDs, and a bottom-mounted, upward-looking RDI 600 Workhorse Sentinel ADCP. Parameters include temperature; salinity; current vectors, speeds, and direction; dissolved oxygen and oxygen saturation; and sound velocity, although not all datasets contain each parameter. The data are in ASCII format, and the raw ADCP data is also included.

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identifier	gov.noaa.nodc:0248354
issued	2022-02-23T00:00:00.000+00:00
landingPage	https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
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references	[ "https://doi.org/10.7266/n7qv3jxd", "https://doi.org/10.7266/n73f4mq6", "https://doi.org/10.7266/n7wh2njf", "https://doi.org/10.7266/n77s7ktz" ]
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spatial	-88.211566,30.090167,-88.211567,30.090167
temporal	2007-10-01T00:00:00+00:00/2016-08-19T00:00:00+00:00