Source: OCCC_2010-07-20_Shipboard_Hydrographic_Survey_20-Nov-2015.nc Format: classic Global Attributes: CREATION_DATE = '20-Nov-2015' SciPi = 'G. Gawarkiewicz, A. Kirincich' EXPERIMENT = 'Outer Cape Coastal Current' Abstract = 'This data was used in the preparation of a manuscript “Drivers of Spring and Summer Variability in the Coastal Ocean Offshore of Cape Cod, MA.” submitted for publication to the Journal of Geophysical Research. The work describes the drivers of spring and summer variability within the coastal ocean east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, a critical link between the Gulf of Maine and Mid-Atlantic Bight, are investigated using two years of shipboard and moored hydrographic and velocity observations from 2010 and 2011.' DESCRIPTION = 'Moored hydrographic and velocity observations along with vessel surveys of the Outer Cape Coastal Current off Nauset, MA.' DATA_ORIGIN = 'WHOI Physical Oceanographic Department' FUNDING_SOURCE = 'The observations used in this study were supported by NOAA SeaGrant #NA10OAR4170083 and internal funding from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Analysis was supported via internal funding from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.' COORD_SYSTEM = 'GEOGRAPHIC' Deployment_Vessel = 'RV Tioga' platform_type = 'CTD cast survey' Data_Preparation_Description = 'The shipboard CTD, Minibat towed body, and REMUS transects were sampled using standard methods and gridded to a regularly spaced (0.5-km across-shelf and 1-m vertical) transect grid.' INST_TYPE_Temperature = 'SBE 3' INST_TYPE_Conductivity = 'SBE 4' INST_TYPE_Pressure = 'SBE 5T or 29' History = 'Converted to netCDF via MATLAB by A. Kirincich' start_latitude = 41.8 start_latitude_units = 'degree_north' end_latitude = 41.9 end_latitude_units = 'degree_north' start_longitude = -69.9 start_longitude_units = 'degree_east' end_longitude = -69.6 end_longitude_units = 'degree_east' WATER_DEPTH = 'variable' Dimensions: t = 1 z = 500 x = 61 loc = 8 Variables: Water_depths Size: 500x1 Dimensions: z Datatype: double Attributes: variable = 'Gridded Water depths' units = 'meters' datetime Size: 1x1 Dimensions: t Datatype: double Attributes: variable = 'Serial Date Number, GMT (Matlab convention)' units = 'days' note = 'A serial date number of 1 corresponds to Jan-1-0000' Temperature Size: 500x61 Dimensions: z,x Datatype: double Attributes: variable = 'Temperature' units = 'degrees Celsius' Salinity Size: 500x61 Dimensions: z,x Datatype: double Attributes: variable = 'Salinity' units = 'PSU' Density Size: 500x61 Dimensions: z,x Datatype: double Attributes: variable = 'Density' units = 'sigma-theta (kg/m^3)' Longitude Size: 61x1 Dimensions: x Datatype: double Attributes: variable = 'Gridded Longitude' units = 'Degrees East' Latitude Size: 61x1 Dimensions: x Datatype: double Attributes: variable = 'Gridded Latitude' units = 'Degrees North' cast_Longitude Size: 8x1 Dimensions: loc Datatype: double Attributes: variable = 'cast Longitude' units = 'Degrees East' cast_Latitude Size: 8x1 Dimensions: loc Datatype: double Attributes: variable = 'cast Latitude' units = 'Degrees North' WaterDepth Size: 61x1 Dimensions: x Datatype: double Attributes: variable = 'Gridded WaterDepth' units = 'm' cast_Depth Size: 8x1 Dimensions: loc Datatype: double Attributes: variable = 'cast Depth' units = 'm'