Source: OCCC_Moored_hydro_60_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 = 'Mooring' Data_Preparation_Description = ' The moorings, located at water depths of 30, 60, and 90 m or 3.3, 7, and 10 km offshore, made observations of temperature using Onset WaterTemp Pro loggers at 5 m vertical spacing and conductivity-temperature using Seabird SBE 37s at the surface and bottom. The temperature and CT sensors, sampled at 5 or 15 minutes, were averaged to hourly time series. ' Deployment_date_1 = '14-Apr-2010' Recovery_date_1 = '20-Jul-2010' Deployment_date_2 = '14-Sep-2011' Recovery_date_2 = '22-Nov-2011' Deployment_date_3 = '16-Mar-2011' Recovery_date_3 = '18-Aug-2011' INST_TYPE_Temperature = 'ONSET Water Temp Pro' INST_TYPE_ConductivityTemperature = 'SBE 37' History = 'Converted to netCDF via MATLAB by A. Kirincich' latitude = 41.8 latitude_units = 'degree_north' longitude = -69.9 longitude_units = 'degree_east' WATER_DEPTH = 60 Dimensions: z = 18 t = 17521 Variables: Water_depths Size: 18x1 Dimensions: z Datatype: double Attributes: variable = 'Instrument Water depths' units = 'meters' datetime Size: 17521x1 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: 18x17521 Dimensions: z,t Datatype: double Attributes: variable = 'Temperature' units = 'degrees Celsius' Salinity Size: 18x17521 Dimensions: z,t Datatype: double Attributes: variable = 'Salinity' units = 'PSU' Density Size: 18x17521 Dimensions: z,t Datatype: double Attributes: variable = 'Density' units = 'sigma-t (kg/m^3)'