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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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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

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