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Surfzone Coastal Oil Pathway Experiment (SCOPE)
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SCOPE Experiment CTD casts, 
Santa Rosa Island, Florida (December 2013)
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Time period:  6-17 December 2013
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Geographic region

Longitude range =  [86.6111 86.4462] West
Latitude range  =  [30.3310 30.3927] North
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Contacts:  

Dr. Guillaume Novelli, University of Miami (gnovelli@rsmas.miami.edu)
Dr. Jamie MacMahan, Naval Postgraduate School (jhmacmah@nps.edu)
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Summary of the SCOPE experiment

CARTHE investigators conducted the Surfzone Coastal Oil Pathway Experiment
(SCOPE) during the period 2-19 December 2013, focused on measuring the
inner-shelf and surf-zone processes responsible for oil transport near Santa
Rosa Island, FL.  The intensive three-week experiment included a cross-shore
array of fixed instruments to measure winds, waves, currents, and water
properties from 10m water depth to the shoreline.  Lagrangian drifters, dye
releases, and moving-vessel measuring platforms were also used.  This unique
set of observations is valuable both for quantifying nearshore physics and
mixing estimates, and for assessing nearshore model forecasts. The
observations captured a wide range of wind and wave forcing due to 
a number of synoptic winter storms that occurred during the experiment.
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This dataset was created by the Consortium for Advanced Research on
Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment (CARTHE). This research was
made possible by a grant from BP/The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative.
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These CTD casts were used to establish the hydrography during the experiment and
were supplemented by other casts near the surface drifter deployments (also 
available from GRIIDC). The data was collected on eight days during the experiment
(6-8, 10-11, 13, 16-17 December 2013 ).  The water column was sampled down to 
about 10-25 m, depending on the location.
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Files: 	10H102153_yyyymmdd_HHMMSS.csv, CC1337004_yyyymmdd_HHMMSS.csv
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 Each csv file contains 28 lines of header information, followed by one row of 
 column labels, followed by the data.
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