Southern California

Description: Very complex sediment-distribution patterns are found on the continental shelf of Santa Monica Bay. In the winters of 1998, 1999 and 2000, a series of moorings were deployed to understand how coastal ocean processes that move sediments change with location on the shelf. It was discovered that internal bores found near the shelf break have bottom currents strong enough to remove all the fine material in the region. Duration: Nov 1997 - Mar 2000 USGS PIs: Marlene Noble Publications: Field Activity Reports: 97046, 98024, 98048, 99010, 00021, 00024 Explore where measurements were made and the kinds of data collected during this experiment using GoogleEarth (V4 or better required) and SOUTHERN_CAL.kml.	Click for a larger image of the map
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Basic Sampling Interval	Data access via OPeNDAP

Description: Very complex sediment-distribution patterns are found on the
continental shelf of Santa Monica Bay. In the winters of 1998, 1999 and 2000,
a series of moorings were deployed to understand how coastal ocean processes that move sediments change with location on the shelf. It was discovered that internal bores found near the shelf break have bottom currents strong enough to remove all the fine material in the region.

Duration: Nov 1997 - Mar 2000

USGS PIs: Marlene Noble

Publications:

Field Activity Reports: 97046, 98024, 98048, 99010, 00021, 00024

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

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

Links to the Data

Basic Sampling Interval

Data access via OPeNDAP

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