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Title: Eastward and northward components of velocity, water temperature, and conductivity collected from moorings in Southern California Bight from 1985-10-09 to 1986-02-07 (NCEI Accession 0166874)
Abstract: The CROSS experiment was the first of several experiments carried out in the Southern California Basin Study between October 1985 and July 1990. Ten current meter moorings were deployed in a line crossing the Santa Monica basin from approximately 3.5 kilometers offshore in Santa Monica Bay to 60 kilometers offshore.

Data submitted is from 7 moorings (C2A, C3, C4, C5, C5A, C6, C7). Data for the remaining 3 moorings (C1, C1A, C2) was previously submitted to NODC (accession 9800021).

Current meters were a mix of Aanderaa (AA) and Vector Measuring Current Meters (VMCM) instruments. The AA meters measured speed, direction, temperature and, in some cases, conductivity with a sample interval of 20 minutes. The VMCM data (previously submitted, accession number 9800021) was sampled in 15 minute intervals.
Date received: 20170928
Start date: 19851009
End date: 19860207
Seanames: North Pacific Ocean
West boundary: -119.03
East boundary: -118.58833
North boundary: 33.87667
South boundary: 33.64333
Observation types: in situ, physical
Instrument types: current meter
Datatypes: CURRENT SPEED - EAST/WEST COMPONENT (U), CURRENT SPEED - NORTH/SOUTH COMPONENT (V), SALINITY, WATER TEMPERATURE
Submitter: Geier, Sue
Submitting institution: University of Washington; School of Oceanography
Collecting institutions: University of Washington
Contributing projects:
Platforms: moorings (pid: 2565)
Number of observations:
Supplementary information: Results from this study can be found in:

Hickey, B.M. (1992) Circulation over the Santa Monica-San Pedro Basin and Shelf. Progress in Oceanography, 30:37-115, https://doi.org/10.1016/0079-6611(92)90009-O. Data file format is plain text.
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Metadata version: 7
Keydate: 2017-09-29 16:35:05+00
Editdate: 2025-04-18 00:43:20+00