U.S. Geological Survey Oceanographic Time-Series Data Collection

SEDIMENT TRANSPORT ON SHELVES AND SLOPES (STRESS)

Description: Office of Naval Research experiment on the California continental margin to investigate storm-driven sediment transport. Deployment of near-bottom moored array to investigate mixing and sediment transport in the bottom boundary layer.

Duration: Dec 1988-May 1989; Nov 1990-Mar 1991

USGS Principal Investigators: B. Butman, D. Cacchione

Collaborators: Office of Naval Research, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and others.

Publications:

Field Activity Reports: 1988-020-FA, 1989-040-FA, 1990-047-FA, 1990-048-FA, 1991-007-FA

Revision History:

Original data publication prior to 2006

Please use the following citation when referencing this dataset:

Butman, Bradford, Cacchione, D.A., Lightsom, F.L., Oceanographic Measurements-- Northern California, 1988-1991: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://stellwagen.er.usgs.gov/stress.html.

Data Access

Catalog of Data

Catalog of Data Averaged to Hourly

Data Access via THREDDS (EPIC)

Data Access via THREDDS (CF)

Station Locations

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