Description: A study of currents on the Continental Slope designed to describe the currents and to investigate the transport of sediment from the shelf to the slope. This work was conducted in cooperation with the Bureau of Land Management (Minerals Management Service) to assess the environmental consequences for offshore petroleum development.
Duration: Nov 1982 - Nov 1984
USGS Principal Investigators: B. Butman, M. Noble
Collaborators: Minerals Management Service
Publications:
Field Activity Reports: 1982-037-FA, 1983-011-FA, 1984-004-FA, 1984-024-FA, 1984-031-FA
Revision History:
Please use the following citation when referencing this dataset:
Butman, Bradford, Noble, M.A. Lightsom, F.L.,Oceanographic Measurements-- New England Conentinental Slope, 1982-1984: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://stellwagen.er.usgs.gov/ne_slope.html.
Data Access
Catalog of Data Averaged to Hourly
Data Access via THREDDS (EPIC)
Station Locations
For more detail about the measurements collected at each site, browse NE_SLOPE.kml (using Google Earth).
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