SEDIMENT TRANSPORT ON SHELVES AND SLOPES (STRESS)

Description: Office of Naval Research experiment on the California continental margin to investigate storm-driven sediment transport. Deployment of near-bottom moored array to investigate mixing and sediment transport in the bottom boundary layer. Duration: 1989 - 1992 USGS PIs: B. Butman, D. Cacchione Collaborators: Office of Naval Research, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and others. Publications: Field Activity Reports: 88020, 89040, 90047, 90048, 91007 Explore where measurements were made and the kinds of data collected during this experiment using GoogleEarth (V4 or better required) and STRESS.kml.	Click for a larger image of the map
Links to the Data
Basic Sampling Interval	Data access via OPeNDAP
Hourly Averaged Data

Description: Office of Naval Research experiment on the California continental margin to investigate storm-driven sediment transport. Deployment of near-bottom moored array to investigate mixing and sediment transport in the bottom boundary layer.

Duration: 1989 - 1992

USGS PIs: B. Butman, D. Cacchione

Collaborators: Office of Naval Research, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and others.

Publications:

Field Activity Reports: 88020, 89040, 90047, 90048, 91007

Explore where measurements were made and the kinds of data collected during this
experiment using GoogleEarth (V4 or better required) and STRESS.kml.

Map of station locations
Click for a larger image of the map

Links to the Data

Basic Sampling Interval

Data access via OPeNDAP

Hourly Averaged Data

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