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Oceanographic and Water-Quality Measurements collected south of Martha’s Vineyard, MA, November - December, 2015

 

Description: Two platforms were deployed at adjacent sites near the Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO ) to compare their ability to measure bottom shear stress. One platform was a low-profile (20 cm-high) sled, and the other platform was a large (2.5-m high) quadpod. Both platforms supported a pair of single-point acoustic-Doppler current meters and an acoustic-Doppler current profiler. On the sled, the instruments were mounted close to the seafloor and looked upward; on the quadpod, the instruments were mounted about 1.5 m above the bottom and looked downward. The quadpod also supported an upward-looking five-beam acoustic Doppler current profiler and instruments to measure temperature, salinity, and turbidity. This dataset was collected primarily to evaluate methods for measuring bottom shear stress, but it also provides useful information on waves, currents, and sediment transport.

Duration: Nov. - Dec. 2015

USGS Principal Investigator: M.A. Martini, C.R Sherwood

Publications:

Field Activity Reports: 2015-072-FA, 2015-076-FA

Revision History:

  • January 2017, original release

Please use the following citation when referencing this dataset:

Martini, M.A., Montgomery, E.T. and Sherwood, C.R., 2017, Oceanographic and water-quality measurements collected south of Martha’s Vineyard, MA, November - December 2015: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7736P28.

Data Access

table imageCatalog of Data

Data Access via THREDDS (EPIC)

Data Access via THREDDS (CF)

Station Locations

 
For more detail about the measurements collected at each site, browse MVCO2015.kml (using Google Earth).

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