Time series of horizontal and vertical current profiles measured every 5 minutes (300sec) with an acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP) mounted on the bottom frame looking upward. The depth resolution is 1 meter. The mooring is located at Long Bay, S. Carolina in the South Atlantic Bight and recorded from 30 meters depth, January to April 2012.
A Teledyne RDI 600 kHz Work Horse Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (RDI ADCP) was mounted looking upward on a bottom frame at nominal depth of 30m. Sampling was set for every 300 seconds (5min). Depth resolution was set to 1 meter.
LB2 ADCP did not have a pressure sensor and LB3 ADCP pressure sensor malfunctioned. Pressure records from the collocated bottom-frame CTDs were used to form the surface mask in ADCP profile data.
Nelson, J., Edwards, C., Seim, H. E. (2023) ADCP data from the South Atlantic Bight (SAB) continental shelf off Long Bay (Mooring #1) at 30 meters collected from January to April in 2012 (Long Bay Wintertime Bloom project). Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2014-12-18 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. doi:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.544448.1 [access date]
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