Moored Temperature and Conductivity Data from OB27, Coastal Ocean Research and Monitoring Program, Onslow Bay, North Carolina, 2000-2002. Mid-depth.

Metadata:

• Identification_Information
• Data_Quality_Information
• Spatial_Data_Organization_Information
• Entity_and_Attribute_Information
• Distribution_Information
• Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: University of North Carolina at Wilmington

Publication_Date: unknown

Title:

Moored Temperature and Conductivity Data from OB27, Coastal Ocean Research and Monitoring Program, Onslow Bay, North Carolina, 2000-2002. Mid-depth.

Other_Citation_Details: None

Online_Linkage: <http://>

Larger_Work_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Unknown

Publication_Date: Unknown

Title: Part of CORMP Program

Description:

Abstract:

An Seabird microcat SBE37-SM was deployed 2 meters above the bottom at OB27 in Onslow Bay, North Carolina. The station is located at 33.993 N, 77.353 W at 30 m depth on the continental shelf. The instrument has been deployed since April 20, 2000 with occasional gaps for recovery and calibration. The data are sampled every 5 minutes, so the sample interval is 5 minutes.

Processing was done by Frederick M. Bingham, a professor of phyics at UNC Wilmington. Raw files were extracted from the instrument, exported to MATLAB and different deployments concatenated. Data have not been quality controlled in any way.

Purpose:

Coastal Ocean monitoring of the southeastern US continental shelf.

Supplemental_Information: Sensor name: Seabird Microcat SBE37-SM

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 20000420

Ending_Date: 20020222

Currentness_Reference: Observed

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As Needed

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -77.353

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -77.353

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 33.993

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 33.993

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Theme_Keyword:

temperature, conductivity, pressure, coastal, continental shelf, monitoring

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Place_Keyword:

North Carolina, United States, USA, US, U.S., US East Coast, Carolina Capes, Cape Fear, Onslow Bay, South Atlantic Bight, Cape Lookout, Wilmington NC

Stratum:

Stratum_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Stratum_Keyword: Mid-depth, ~12 depth.

Temporal:

Temporal_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Temporal_Keyword: 2000, 2001, 2002

Access_Constraints:

Data freely available. Investigator requests that anyone looking to use the data contact him.

Use_Constraints: None

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Frederick Bingham

Contact_Organization: UNC - Wilmington

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing Address

Address:

Center for Marine Science University of North Carolina at Wilmington 5600 Marvin K. Moss Lane Wilmington, NC 28409

City: Wilmington

State_or_Province: NC

Postal_Code: 28409

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 910 962-2383

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 910 962-2410

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: bigkahuna@fredbingham.com

Data_Set_Credit: Funding provided by NOAA under contract #NA9RP0259.

Native_Data_Set_Environment: MATLAB 5.2.

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Unknown

Publication_Date: Unknown

Title: None

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

Published accuracies are: 0.002 deg C (temperature); 0.0003 S/m (conductivity); 0.1 decibar (pressure).

Logical_Consistency_Report:

Flag variable shows useful data. 1 is considered good, 0 not good.

Completeness_Report:

Certain dates are missing becuase the instrument was not deployed.

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: ~10 m

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy:

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report: ~1 m. guess

Lineage:

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Data downloaded from instrument. Salinity calculated. Combined files from different deployments. Date and time are in UTC, stored in &quot;idate&quot; variable. Units are Julian days relative to Jan. 1, 0000.

Process_Date: 20020618

Cloud_Cover: Unknown

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Indirect_Spatial_Reference:

North Carolina, United States, USA, US, U.S., US East Coast, Carolina Capes, Cape Fear, Onslow Bay, South Atlantic Bight, Cape Lookout, Wilmington NC

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Point

Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:

SDTS_Terms_Description:

SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Point

Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 1

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Overview_Description:

Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:

Temperature (temp; degC ITS-90), conductivity (cndct; Siemens/meter) and salinity (slt; PSS78). Date (idate; Julian days relative to Jan. 1, 0000)

Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation: Definitions are self-explanatory.

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: University of North Carolina at Wilmington

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing Address

Address:

Center for Marine Science University of North Carolina at Wilmington 5600 Marvin K. Moss Lane Wilmington, NC 28409

City: Wilmington

State_or_Province: NC

Postal_Code: 28409

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 910 962-2383

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 910 962-2410

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: bigkahuna@fredbingham.com

Resource_Description: OB27 Microcat data

Distribution_Liability:

No warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the accuracy or utility of the data.

Standard_Order_Process:

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: MATLAB Binary File (MAT)

Format_Version_Number: 5.2

Transfer_Size: 89MB

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name: <ftp://rover.phy.uncwil.edu/Pub/COMP/OB27frameadcp/ob27ctup.mat>

Fees: Free

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20020809

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Frederick Bingham

Contact_Organization: UNC - Wilmington

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing Address

Address:

Center for Marine Science University of North Carolina at Wilmington 5600 Marvin K. Moss Lane Wilmington, NC 28409

City: Wilmington

State_or_Province: NC

Postal_Code: 28409

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 910 962-2383

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 910 962-2410

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: bigkahuna@fredbingham.com

Metadata_Standard_Name:

Content Standards for National Bilogical Information Infrastructure Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998