MOOS Upper-Water-Column Science Experiment (MUSE)

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Identification_Information:
Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: MBARI MUSE Data Team
Publication_Date: 20010901
Title: MOOS Upper-Water-Column Science Experiment (MUSE)
Edition: 1.0
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: section
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Moss Landing, CA, USA
Publisher: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)
Online_Linkage: www.mbari.org
Description:
Abstract:
Between August 1 and September 2, 2000, the Naval Postgraduate School Department of Oceanography's Radar And Drifter (RAD) Lab collected hourly averages of Codar measurements from three site around Monterey Bay. Surface currents for 328 grid points were computed. These currents are the raw, uninterpolated measurements.
Purpose: These data were collected for oceanographic research.
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: 20000801
Ending_Date: 20000902
Currentness_Reference: Publication Date
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned
Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -122.3245
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -121.8205
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 36.9739
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 36.5659
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Theme_Keyword: Oceanography
Theme_Keyword: Codar
Theme_Keyword: HF radar
Theme_Keyword: surface currents
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: Geographic Names Information System
Place_Keyword: United States
Place_Keyword: California
Place_Keyword: CA
Place_Keyword: North Pacific Ocean
Place_Keyword: Northern Pacific Ocean
Place_Keyword: Monterey Bay
Stratum:
Stratum_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Stratum_Keyword: Upper Water Column
Temporal:
Temporal_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Temporal_Keyword: August
Temporal_Keyword: September
Temporal_Keyword: 2000
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Description and Ownership of Data. This CD-ROM and the data are provided by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) for research and educational purposes only.
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License to Use. You are hereby granted a non-exclusive license to use, copy, and modify the data for research and educational purposes only. You are permitted to disseminate the data to others for these purposes only. You are not permitted to make any commercial use of the data, to sell, assign, sublicense, or otherwise transfer the data or to remove any copyright notice, without prior written permission from MBARI. The data have not been designed as a navigational aid, and you are not permitted to use them for this purpose. In addition, you are not permitted to use MBARI's name or its initials (a registered trademark) or to suggest that MBARI endorses your project or product, without its express written consent.
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Francisco Chavez
Contact_Organization: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Contact_Position: Science Principal Investigator
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 7700 Sandholdt Road
City: Moss Landing
State_or_Province: CA
Postal_Code: 95039-9644
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 831-775-1700
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 831-775-1620
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: cdrom@mbari.org
Hours_of_Service: 9-5 M-F Pacific Time
Native_Data_Set_Environment:
Filenaming Convention: tuvs_MNTY_yr_mo_dy_hrmn tuv = total u/v current, ruv = radial u/v currents s = how radial data were produced (s = standard processing, nothing unusual was done in processing the back scatter energy spectra to create the radial vector data.) MNTY = Monterey Bay yr_mo_dy_hrmn = two digit year, month, day, hour, minute (GMT)
Data_Quality_Information:
Logical_Consistency_Report: N/A
Completeness_Report:
Data from August 18, 2000 hour 0200 is missing because two of the radars did not produce data at that hour. All data after September 24, 2000 are not included on the CD because data vectors are questionable.
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Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Publication_Date: 20010801
Publication_Time: 1200
Title: NPS RAD Lab Codar data
Edition: 1.0
Online_Linkage: www.oc.nps.navy.mil/~radlab/
Type_of_Source_Media: disc
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: 20000801
Ending_Date: 20000901
Source_Currentness_Reference: Publication Date
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: NPS_Codar
Source_Contribution:
Radar And Drifter Lab Department of Oceanography Naval Postgraduate School
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Data from the instruments are called radial vecotors, or radial currents. Radial "vectors" represent current velocity directly toward or away from the radar. When one has radial current maps from more than one instrument at the same time, they can be combined to make total current vectors. These radial current vectors are organized in range rings, like rings around a bullseye. The radial currents are located every five degrees in an arc a fixed radius from the instrument. This comprises one range ring. There may be 20-30 of these range rings. The data on any range ring can be very gappy, so if the data gap as measured from the instrument is less than or equal to 20 degrees, radial vectors are linerally interpolated across the gap. The total current vectors are made. The "noInterp" files are the files with gaps, and the "RadInterp" files are the files after the linear interpolation has been done.

Summary of the radial to total procedure:

The way the total vectors are computed is that all the radia currents which meet specific temporal and spatial thresholds are included in the calculation.

The temporal criteria: only radials from the center (curren time are used. That is no radial data before or after the center time are included.

The spatial criteria: at the location of each total current grid point a 3 km circle is placed in the radial maps. Any radials from any of the sites that fall within that circle are included in the total calculation.

Thresholding criteria (pre-calculation): Any radial currents > 150 cm/s are discarded before the total calculati A minimum of 3 radial from at least 2 sites are required, otherwise no calculation is performed.

The procedure is to place all the radial estimates that meet the above temporal, spatial, and thresholding criteria in a matrix, and use a linear least squares matrix calculation to determine the total u/v currents.

Thresholding criteria (post-calculation): Any total currents with a speed > 100 cm/s or associated mapping error > 1.2 are discarded.

Process_Date: 20010416
Process_Time: 00000000
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Mike Cook
Contact_Organization:
Radar And Drifter Lab Department of Oceanography Naval Postgraduate School
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 833 Dyer Road
City: Monterey
State_or_Province: CA
Postal_Code: 93943
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 831-656-1060
Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Point
Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:
VPF_Terms_Description:
VPF_Topology_Level: 0
VPF_Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:
VPF_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Text
Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 7877
Spatial_Reference_Information:
Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
Geographic:
Latitude_Resolution: 0.000001
Longitude_Resolution: 0.000001
Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees
Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
Detailed_Description:
Entity_Type:
Entity_Type_Label: Codar
Entity_Type_Definition: HF radar measurements
Entity_Type_Definition_Source: NPS
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: Longitude
Attribute_Definition: Longitude of grid point
Attribute_Definition_Source: NPS
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: -999
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Missing data
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: RAD Lab
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: -180
Range_Domain_Maximum: 360
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: degrees
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: Latitude
Attribute_Definition: Latitude of grid point
Attribute_Definition_Source: NPS
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: -999
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Missing data
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: RAD Lab
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: -90
Range_Domain_Maximum: 90
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: degrees
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: u
Attribute_Definition: Current vector u coordinate
Attribute_Definition_Source: NPS
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: -999
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Missing data
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: RAD Lab
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
Range_Domain_Maximum: 50
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: centimeters/second
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: v
Attribute_Definition: Current vector v coordinate
Attribute_Definition_Source: NPS
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: -999
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Missing data
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: RAD Lab
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
Range_Domain_Maximum: 50
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: centimeters/second
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: site code
Attribute_Definition:
Site Code Number indicates radials from which sites were used to make the total estimate. For example, a site code number of 5 (4+1) would have used radials only from Point Pinos and Santa Cruz for the calculation.
Attribute_Definition_Source: NPS
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 1
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Santa Cruz
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: RAD Lab
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 2
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Moss Landing
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: RAD Lab
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 4
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Point Pinos
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: RAD Lab
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: #rads
Attribute_Definition:
Number of independent radials used to make a total u/v current estimate. Only two are required, but having more is desirable.
Attribute_Definition_Source: NPS
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
Range_Domain_Maximum: 10
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Number
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: maperr speed
Attribute_Definition:
A number that indicates how good the angular spread is between the radial currents. The higher the maperr speed, the less confidence there is in the total current estimate.
Attribute_Definition_Source: NPS
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
Range_Domain_Maximum: 1.2
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Number
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: fitdiff
Attribute_Definition:
The root mean square difference between the actual radial currents, and the radial current estimates that can be generated from the least squares matrix calculation once the total u/v currents are determined.
Attribute_Definition_Source: NPS
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
Range_Domain_Maximum: 1
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Number
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Contact_Person: Nancy Barr
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Address: 7700 Sandholdt Road
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Contact_Person: Jodi Brewster
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