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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
Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
| Metadata Last Checked: October 04, 2025
| Last Modified: 2021-10-15T00:00:00.000+00:00
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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AIR TEMPERATURE
Attenuation/Transmission
BAROMETRIC PRESSURE
BEAM ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT
CONDUCTIVITY
CURRENT DIRECTION
CURRENT METER - DIRECTION
CURRENT METER - EAST-WEST COMPONENT (U)
CURRENT METER - NORTH-SOUTH COMPONENT (V)
CURRENT METER - SPEED
CURRENT SPEED
CURRENT SPEED - EAST/WEST COMPONENT (U)
CURRENT SPEED - NORTH/SOUTH COMPONENT (V)
CURRENT SPEED - UP/DOWN COMPONENT (W)
DEPTH - BOTTOM
DEPTH - SENSOR
DIRECTIONAL WAVE SPECTRA
DISSOLVED OXYGEN
HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE
LIGHT ATTENUATION
SALINITY
SEA HEIGHT
SEA LEVEL - MEAN
SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE
SIGMA-T
SIGMA-THETA
TRANSMISSIVITY
WATER TEMPERATURE
WAVE - PEAK PERIOD
WAVE DATA
WAVE DIRECTION
WAVE ENERGY
WAVE HEIGHT
WAVE HEIGHT - SIGNIFICANT
WAVE PERIOD
WAVE PERIOD - AVERAGE
WAVE PERIOD - DOMINANT
WAVE SPECTRA
WIND DIRECTION
WIND GUST
WIND SPEED
absorption and beam attenuation meter
ADCP
buoy - moored buoy
conductivity sensor
CTD
CTD - moored CTD
current meter
fluorometer
meteorological sensor
mooring
oxygen sensor
pressure gauge
sonar
temperature probe
thermistor
thermometer
tide gauge
transmissometer
video camera
wave gauge - non-directional
benthic
current measurements
meteorological
optical
physical
phytoplankton abundance
profile
time series
A. E. VERRILL
ADVANCE II
ARGO MAINE
ASTERIAS
ATLANTIC TWIN
ATLANTIS II
CAPE HATTERAS
COLUMBUS ISELIN
DSV Alvin
EDWIN LINK
ENDEAVOR
FARNELLA
GLORITA
GULF CHALLENGER
GYRE
KILA
LULU
MARLIN
MARY LOUISE
moorings
NOAA Ship McArthur
NOAA Ship Nancy Foster
OCEANUS
POINT SUR
R/V ASTERIAS
R/V GARCIA DEL CID
R/V Seward Johnson II
R/V WECOMA
ROBERT GORDON SPROUL
USCGC HORNBEAM
USNS De Steiguer
WHITEFOOT
YELLOWFIN
University of Maine
US DOI/US Geological Survey/Woods Hole Science Center
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
US DOI/US Geological Survey/Woods Hole Science Center
Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms (ECOHAB)
Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics (GLOBEC International)
The Ecology and Oceanography of Toxic Alexandrium Blooms in the Gulf of Maine (ECOHAB-GOM)
Adriatic Sea
Coastal Waters of Hawaii
Georges Bank
Gulf of Maine
Gulf of Mexico
Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary
Massachusetts Bay
Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary
North Atlantic Ocean
North Pacific Ocean
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary
oceanography
DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
DOI/USGS/CMG/WHSC > Woods Hole Science Center, Coastal and Marine Geology, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior
UMAINE > University of Maine
WHOI > WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION
93004
93013
93032
93033
93034
94009
94010
94013
94021
94034
94046
94047
94049
94050
95045
ECOHAB > Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Bloom
GLOBEC > Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics, IGBP
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND DIRECTION
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND SPEED
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > WATER DEPTH
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > OXYGEN
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CIRCULATION > OCEAN CURRENTS
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > ATTENUATION/TRANSMISSION
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN PRESSURE > WATER PRESSURE
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > WAVE HEIGHT
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > WAVE PERIOD
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > WAVE SPECTRA
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > WAVE SPEED/DIRECTION
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > CONDUCTIVITY
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > DENSITY
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY
ADCP
Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP)
Acoustic backscatter (ABS)
Bathymeteric surveying
Beam attenuation
Current
Deployment of oxygen profiler and benthic chambers
Horizontal array
Internal waves
Massachusetts Bay Internal Wave Experiment
Moored array
Mooring exchange, oxygen profiles in sediment
Mooring work
Oceanographic observations
Optical backscatter
Oxygen profiling in sediments
Photography
Physical Oceanography
Pressure
Recover current moorings, slope water mapping
Salinity
Sampling
Seafloor mapping
Sediment transport
Suspended sediment concentration
Temperature
Tripod and subsurface deployment and recovery
Tripod and subsurface mooring recovery and deployment
Tripod deployment
Tripod recovery
Water sampling for radon measurements
XBT, surface salinity samples
physical oceanographic observations
ADCP > Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler
CONDUCTIVITY METERS > CONDUCTIVITY METERS
CTD > Conductivity, Temperature, Depth
CURRENT METERS
FLUOROMETERS > FLUOROMETERS
OXYGEN METERS > OXYGEN METERS
PRESSURE GAUGES
SONAR > Sound Navigation and Ranging
TEMPERATURE PROBES > TEMPERATURE PROBES
THERMISTORS > THERMISTORS
THERMOMETERS > THERMOMETERS
TIDE GAUGES > TIDE GAUGES
TRANSMISSOMETERS
VIDEO CAMERA > VIDEO CAMERA
MOORINGS
SUBMARINE
Ships
A. E. VERRILL (ICES code: 3171)
ADVANCE II (ICES code: 32AD)
ALVIN (ICES code: 31A5)
ARGO MAINE (ICES code: 33AM)
ASTERIAS (ICES code: 31AA)
ASTERIAS (ICES code: 58AT)
ATLANTIC TWIN (call sign: WY5063, ICES code: 32AW)
ATLANTIS II (call sign: KADC, ICES code: 31AN)
CAPE HATTERAS (call sign: WRZ8934, ICES code: 32KZ, 1981-)
COLUMBUS ISELIN (ICES code: 32IC)
DE STEIGUER (ICES code: 315D)
EDWIN LINK (call sign: WTL4798, ICES code: 33EL, 1987-2001)
ENDEAVOR (call sign: WCE5063, ICES code: 32EV, 1976-)
FARNELLA (ICES code: 74AE)
GARCIA DEL CID (call sign: EHUU, ICES code: 29GD)
GLORITA (call sign: WSE338, ICES code: 32O7)
GULF CHALLENGER (ICES code: 33GC)
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)
NANCY FOSTER (call sign: WTER, ICES code: 33NF, 2004-)
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)
OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GEORGES BANK
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
Complete Metadata
| describedByType | application/octet-steam |
|---|---|
| identifier | gov.noaa.nodc:USGS-Ocean-TS |
| issued | 2008-05-07T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| landingPage | https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact |
| language | [] |
| references |
[ "https://stellwagen.er.usgs.gov/", "https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20071194" ] |
| 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 |