Station locations for moorings deployed by the Centre for Marine Applied Research's Coastal Monitoring Program. The moorings record high-resolution temperature, dissolved oxygen, and intermittent salinity data at various depths, typically for several months. The dataset is provided by the Government of Nova Scotia and was last updated on 2026-07-15.
Use Cases
- Mapping sensor deployment locations based on the described station network.
- Analyzing temporal patterns of water temperature and dissolved oxygen from high-resolution mooring data.
- Studying coastal oceanographic conditions using the intermittent salinity measurements.
Strengths
- Data includes high-resolution measurements of temperature, dissolved oxygen, and salinity.
- Multiple file formats are available, including SHP, CSV, and GEOJSON, for different analysis needs.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- The description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Centre for Marine Applied Research (CMAR) Coastal Monitoring Program, Government of Nova Scotia
- Collection Method
- Data collected from moorings deployed as part of a monitoring program.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-15 16:39:22.480963; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Coastal waters of Nova Scotia, Canada