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Minerals
Management Service Studies:
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The Santa Barbara Channel-Santa
Maria Basin Study Study (SBC-SMB). Funded by MMS, a closely
articulated program involving observational and computational techniques
to obtain the best estimate of the physical oceanographic conditions
in the Santa Barbara Channel.
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The
Northern California Circulation Study (NCCCS) A 5-year physical
oceanography study of circulation on the continental shelf and upper
slope between San Francisco and the Oregon border. Objectives: to obtain
high-quality, direct and indirect current measurements with sufficient
temporal and spatial resolution to describe primary advective processes
and circulation in terms of statistics and dynamic processes.
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The
Central California Coastal Circulation Study (CCCCS).An 18-month
field study (2/84-7/85) of the variability of water mass characteristics
and velocity field on the continental shelf and upper continental slope
from Point Conception to San Francisco. Measurements resolve finer spatial
and shorter temporal scales than the relatively coarse 65 km grid spacing
formerly used.
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The
CAMP Experiment. Conducted by SAIC with funding from MMS, the study
area was near oil platform Hidalgo, WNW from Point Conception. Data
includes readings from both primary and secondary moorings, spanning
from April, 1992, to July, 1994.
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Other
Data Sets:
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CalCOFI.The
workstation nemo.ucsd.edu contains Pacific metadata (tide gauges, WOCE
stations, acoustic paths); etopo5 (bathymetry); world oceans hydrosearch
(1 million bottle and low res ctd casts); climatologies; world oceans
bathy contours; climate time series; high resolution coastlines and
boundaries for mapping; and more.
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Coastal
Ocean Dynamics Experiment (CODE). Multi-institutional research program
comprised of a series of small-scale, densely-instrumented field experiments
(approximately 4 months duration, from 4/81-8/82) funded by the National
Science Foundation (NSF). High-quality data sets of physical variables
to construct kinematic and dynamic descriptions of dynamical processes
governing wind-driven motion of water in the 2 to 10 day band over the
continental shelf from Pt. Reyes to Pt. Arena.
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Super CODE. | |
Gulf of California (GOC). Current, temperature, bottom pressure, and met data from a two-year field study (1983-1985) of shelf circulation in the Gulf of California supported by the Office of Naval Research. The observations have been used to characterize dominant circulation patterns and to examine the influences of remote and local wind forcing. |
OPUS (Organization of Persistent Upwelling Structures) Program focused on the persistent upwelling feature occuring between Points Arguello and Conception. |
DUCK94: Bathymetry information and images related to existing digital bathymetry for the Virginia-North Carolina Shelf (35-38 deg N; 74-76 deg W) from the National Ocean Service Digital Bathymetry Database. |
National
Data Buoy Center (NDBC). Weekly reports of recently acquired data
originally extracted from the agency's CD-ROM dataset and reformatted
for ease of use in scientific applications.
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EBC: Drifter Deployment Data. | |
NCDC. |
National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). Monthly data reports. |
(NOS). Tidal data files from the National Ocean Service (mostly acquired in the NCCCS Study). |
Red Sea Model. Red Sea Model data analysis. |
DelMar.
NSF-funded study of temperature and currents over the narrow southern
California shelf north of San Diego. Moorings deployed June 1978 through
March 1979 at 3 sites, with 2 current meters at 15m, 4 instruments at
30m, and 6 instruments at 60m. |
SMILE ( The Shelf Mixed Layer Experiment). NSF-funded study of the response of the oceanic surface boundary layer over the continental shelf to atmospheric forcing. Conducted over the northern California shelf between Points Arena and Reyes mid-November 1988 to mid-May 1989. |
Bathymetry: California Department of Boating and Waterways Bathymetric Data, covering Southern California from Mexican Border to South of Santa Cruz. | PSMSL: Files in "experimental" status, introduced in September 1992 by the Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level, and update most recently on 6 October 1993. |
CTZ: ADCP, CTD, XBT, drifters, and moorings data. | Wind Events and Shelf Transport (WEST) is a 2000-2004 NSF-funded project within the Coastal Ocean Processes (CoOP) Program. The goal of WEST is to better understand the competing influences of wind on productivity. Moored and shore-based time series of meteorological and oceanographic variables acquired from 2000-2003 off Bodega Bay in northern California are available here. |
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