Publication Date:
2022-05-25
Description:
The Nantucket Shoals Flux Experiment (NSFE79) was conducted across the
continental shelf and upper slope south of Nantucket from March, 1979 to
April , 1980 to measure the flow of shelf water from the Georges Bank/Gulf
of Maine region into the Middle Atlantic Bight. Conceived as a cooperative
field experiment involving the Northeast Fisheries Center (NMFS),
U.S. Geological Survey (Woods Hole), University of New Hampshire, and the
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the experiment contained two principal
components, a moored array of current meter and bottom instrumentation
deployed at six locations across the shelf and upper slope spanning
a depth range from 46 m to 810 m, and a series of 27 hydrographic surveys
made along or near the moored array line during the experiment. A basic
description of the NSFE79 hydrographic data has been given in Part 1 by
Wright (1983). A description of the moored array components and the
basic moored array data sets is presented here in Part 2.
Description:
The NEFC participation was
supported by the NMFS Marine Resources Monitoring, Assessment, and Prediction
(MARt-1AP) Program. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) supported
the USGS field and analysis component under t~emoranda of Understanding
M550-MU6-79, M551-MU8- 24, M551-MU9-4, and M551-MU0-18. The
WHO! and UNH field programs were supported by the National Science Foundation
under Grants OCE 78-19513 and OCE 78-26229.
Keywords:
Oceanography
;
Hydrography
;
Ocean currents
;
Moored arrays
Repository Name:
Woods Hole Open Access Server
Type:
Technical Report
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