CURRENTS AND SEDIMENT TRANSPORT IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS BAY

Description: The Monterey Canyon experiment studied the mechanisms that govern the circulation within and the transport of sediment and water through Monterey Submarine Canyon. This is a very large, deep submarine canyon off central California that incises the continental margin from the outer slope to close to the coastline. Duration: 1993 to 1995 USGS PI's: Marlene Noble Publication: http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/reports/ofr95-838/ Field Activity Reports: 93016, 94016, 95030 Explore where measurements were made and the kinds of data collected during this experiment using GoogleEarth (V4 or better required) and MONTEREY_CAN.kml.	Click for a larger image of the map
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Basic Sampling Interval	Data access via OPeNDAP

Description: The Monterey Canyon experiment studied the mechanisms that govern the circulation within and the transport of sediment and water through Monterey Submarine Canyon. This is a very large, deep submarine canyon off central California that incises the continental margin from the outer slope to close to the coastline.

Duration: 1993 to 1995

USGS PI's: Marlene Noble

Publication: http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/reports/ofr95-838/

Field Activity Reports: 93016, 94016, 95030

Explore where measurements were made and the kinds of data collected during this
experiment using GoogleEarth (V4 or better required) and MONTEREY_CAN.kml.

Map of station locations
Click for a larger image of the map

Links to the Data

Basic Sampling Interval

Data access via OPeNDAP

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Monterey Canyon Experiment

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