New York Bight Ocean Current and Environmental Measurements from 1977

May 25 to August 11, 1977, this dataset contains time-series measurements of ocean currents and environmental parameters from fixed platforms in the New York Bight. It was collected by the National Ocean Service (NOS) for the MESA-NYB project and processed by the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) to their F005 standard format.

Use Cases

• Modeling current direction and speed time series at specified date and time intervals for hydrodynamic forecasting.
• Analyzing relationships between water temperature, salinity, and current speed for environmental correlation studies.
• Investigating co-variation of wind direction/speed and ocean current patterns for coupled atmosphere-ocean models.
• Using sensor depth, water depth, and position data for spatial analysis of current profiles.

Strengths

• Time-series data reported at 10-15 minute intervals provides high temporal resolution.
• Includes multiple environmental parameters like temperature, salinity, and wind data alongside core current measurements.

Limitations

• Dataset covers a limited temporal range of less than three months in 1977.
• Specific sample size (row count) and geographic coordinates for stations are unknown.

Provenance

Source

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI).

Collection Method

Data collected from moored current-measuring instruments (e.g., Aanderaa current meters) at fixed platforms using the Eulerian method.

Time Range

1977-05-25 to 1977-08-11

Freshness

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Geography

New York Bight region.