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Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory Oceanographic Data

Entry ID: mvco_ocean

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Summary

Abstract: The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has built the Martha's
Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO) near South Beach in
Edgartown, Massachusetts. The project was initiated by
scientists in the Coastal and Ocean Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
(COFDL) at WHOI, who will use the observatory to study coastal
atmospheric and oceanic processes.

Data from the ...

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Link: GET DATA

Description: Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory Ocean Data.
Data are stored either in a summary file (OcnDat_s) or in the file that is
named according to the instrument package that logged the data (eg., YSICTD_s).

Link: GET DATA

Description: Anonymous FTP access provides ascii flat files including
year-to-date data in files named YYYY_InstID.CNN (eg.,
2002_Campmt.C03) or data from each day as YYYYyday_InstID.CNN
(eg., 2002122_Campmt.C03). The user must navigate to the
desired Instrument_ID (eg., Campmt_s) and the desired year
(eg., 2000). Text files (.txt) and header files (.hdr) define
the contents of these data files.

Link: GET DATA

Description: Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory Data System
Web-Interface provides methods to subset the data. Retrieved
ascii data will contain a header at the top. The
web-interface also provides interactive graphics (Simple X-Y
plotting).

Link: VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE

Description: The MVCO is a research observatory located at South Beach and
in the ocean a mile off the south shore of Martha's
Vineyard. It provides real time and archived coastal
oceanographic and meteorological data for researchers,
students and the general public.

Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

	N: 41.34	S: 41.34	E: -70.56	W: -70.56

Min Depth: 12 M Max Depth: 14 M

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 2001-06-01

Location Keywords

OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN

CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > MARTHA'S VINEYARD

Data Resolution

Temporal Resolution: Every 20 minutes
Temporal Resolution Range: 1 minute - < 1 hour

Science Keywords

OCEANS > COASTAL PROCESSES > SEA LEVEL RISE

OCEANS > COASTAL PROCESSES > SEA SURFACE HEIGHT

ISO Topic Category

ELEVATION

GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION

OCEANS

Platform

OCEAN PLATFORMS

SHIPS

SATELLITES

Instrument

BOTTOM PRESSURE GAUGES

CTD > Conductivity, Temperature, Depth

Project

ESIP > Earth Science Information Partners Program

Use Constraints The data available here are intended solely for scholarly use by
the academic and scientific community, with the express
understanding that any such use will properly acknowledge the
originating Investigator. Anyone wishing to use MVCO data in a
presentation, report, thesis or publication should contact the
originating PI. It is expected ...

Ancillary Keywords

WAVE PARAMETERS

WATER TEMPERATURE

Data Set Progress

IN WORK

Originating Center

Data Center

Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Data Center URL: http://mvcodata.whoi.edu/cgi-bin/mvco/mvco.cgi

Data Center Personnel
Name: JANET FREDERICKS Phone: 508-289-2573 Email: jfredericks at whoi.edu Contact Address: Bigelow 407 Country: USA