The Ocean Archive System searches our original datasets as they were submitted to us, not individual points or profiles. If you want to search and retrieve ocean profiles in a common format, or objectively analyzed fields, your better option may be to use one of our project applications. See: Access Data

OAS accession Detail for 0117373
<< previous |revision: 12
accessions_id: 0117373 | archive
Title: Meteorological and hydrographic data collected from Cedar Point Fishing Pier, Cedar Point, Alabama from 2008-04-04 to 2013-12-31 (NODC Accession 0117373)
Abstract: Dauphin Island Sea Lab and the Mobile Bay National Estuary Program have partnered with the Alabama Department of Conservation and Mobile County to provide real-time meteorological and hydrographic data from Cedar Point, AL. Near real-time data are available in a user-friendly format at www.mymobilebay.com. Informative pop-ups describe each parameter and graphs of each may be displayed for the visitor to the website. Researchers may download the data in a spreadsheet format for further analysis.
Date received: 20140327
Start date: 20080404
End date: 20131231
Seanames: Coastal Waters of Alabama, Coastal Waters of Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Mexico, North Atlantic Ocean
West boundary: -88.13953
East boundary: -88.13953
North boundary: 30.30845
South boundary: 30.30845
Observation types: chemical, continuous, meteorological, optical, physical, time series, water chemistry
Instrument types: anemometer, barometer, barometric pressure sensor, conductivity sensor, fluorometer, humidity sensor, meteorological sensor, multi-parameter water quality sensor, PAR Sensor, spectrophotometer, temperature probe, thermistor
Datatypes: AIR TEMPERATURE, BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, CHLOROPHYLL, CONDUCTIVITY, DISSOLVED OXYGEN, JULIAN YEAR - DAY, OXYGEN - PERCENT SATURATION, PHOTOSYNTHETIC ACTIVE RADIATION (PAR), PRECIPITATION, PRECIPITATION AMOUNT, RELATIVE HUMIDITY, SALINITY, SOLAR RADIATION - ATMOSPHERIC, turbidity, WATER TEMPERATURE, WIND DIRECTION, WIND SPEED
Submitter: Hu, Lei
Submitting institution: Dauphin Island Sea Lab
Collecting institutions: Dauphin Island Sea Lab
Contributing projects: MBNEP
Platforms:
Number of observations:
Supplementary information: PI: Mike Dardeau

Location is on the Cedar Point Fishing Pier

Additional information and Real-time observations can be found at:
http://www.mymobilebay.com/stationdata/StationInfo.asp?jday=&property=&chartyear=&StationID=830

Meteorological data: Data are single observations taken at 1 minute intervals unless otherwise specified. Dates are Julian days and all times are Central Standard Time.

Hydrographic data: Data are single observations taken at 30 minute intervals unless otherwise specified. Dates are Julian days and all times are Central Standard Time.
Availability date:
Metadata version: 12
Keydate: 2014-03-31 15:13:47+00
Editdate: 2024-02-17 15:36:08+00