| Identifier | 2016-610-FA | ||||||||
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| Also known as | CCE | ||||||||
| Purpose | Coordinated Canyon Experiment - turn-around of moorings (MS1, 2, & 3) in the upper canyon | ||||||||
| Location | Monterey Canyon, Monterey Bay, California, United States, Pacific Ocean | ||||||||
| Summary | Data and mooringlogs submitted to FAD 10/20/2016 Moorings redeployed on this FAN: CCE15M1B CCE15M2B CCE15M3B Moorings recovered: CCE15M2A, CCE15M3A 2015 CCE (Coble) data submitted to FAD 4/8/2016; filed under deployment FAD 2015-619-FA. | ||||||||
| Info derived | Turn-around of three moorings in upper Monterey Canyon as part of the CCE | ||||||||
| Comments | This is a joint field operation with MBARI as part of the Coordinated Canyon Experiment (CCE). | ||||||||
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| Marine operations | Yes |
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2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
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| Organization | Other(Other) |
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| Principal investigators | Joanne C. T FerreiraKurt RosenbergerKatherine L Coble | ||||||||||||||
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| Affiliate principal | Charles K. Paull (MBARI) |
| Data category: | Location-Elevation, Sampling, Time Series |
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| Data type: | Navigation, Geology, Mooring (physical oceanography) |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| navigation equipment | Navigation | (no data reported) | |
| Sediment trap | Sediment Properties, Geology | (no data reported) | |
| Moorings - Tripods | Mooring (physical oceanography) | 1 |
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| Time-series oceanographic data from the Monterey Canyon, CA October 2015 - March 2017 | Moorings - Tripods | Time-series data of water depth, velocity, turbidity, and temperature were acquired between 5 October 2015 and 21 March 2017 within the Monterey Canyon off of Monterey, CA, USA. In order to better understand the triggering, progression and evolution of turbidity currents in Monterey Submarine Canyon, an experiment was designed to directly measure velocity, suspended sediment and physical water properties (temperature, salinity and density) along the canyon axis during an 18-month period. Three moorings in the upper canyon (MS1, MS2, MS3) containing oceanographic instruments and Anderson- type sediment traps were deployed during three consecutive six-month periods (A: October 2015 - April 2016, B: April - October 2016, C: October 2016 - March 2017). In addition, a bottom platform to the South of the canyon head (MS0) housed instrumentation to measure currents and waves on the adjacent shelf. The mooring diagram image files are a generalized representation of the deployed instrumentation at each site, and are included as a visual aid for understanding the sampling environment. A text file of the specific sensors listing parameters measured is also included. | Joanne C. T Ferreira |
