In accordance with SO #3423 - The Gulf of America and SO #3424 - Mount McKinley and Landmarks Honoring the Alaskan People, new USGS data releases specific to those named places will utilize the new name Gulf of America and the restored name Mount McKinley. Per USGS practice, historical data will retain the name of the geographic features as they were known at the time the data were originally released.
Data Release
Title
Ocean Currents and Pressure Time Series at the Upper Florida Keys: Crocker Reef, FL
By Legna Torres-Garcia,1 David Zawada,2 and Nathan Smiley2
1Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, University of Florida, 365 Weil Hall, PO Box 116580, Gainesville, Florida 32611-6580
2U.S. Geological Survey, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, St. Petersburg, Florida 33701, USA
Summary
Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCPs) and Pressure loggers were deployed at Crocker Reef, a senile (dead) barrier reef located in the northern portion of the Florida Reef Tract during December 12, 2014 to January 30, 2015. A pressure logger was deployed in the deepest part of the fore reef at a water depth of 14 m. This logger configured to measure pressure at a rate of 2 Hz to obtain wave statistics. An Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler, two SonTek Argonaut-XR Current Profilers, and a Nortek Aquadopp current meter were deployed at different locations on the reef flat and configured to measure three-dimensional flow velocities throughout the water column. Current measurements were taken at a rate of 1 Hz for 120 s every 10 minutes; each 120 s sampling was internally averaged to provide data at 10 minute resolution.
Data
| File Name and Description | Metadata (XML format) | Metadata (text format) | Download File |
|---|---|---|---|
| UFK14RBR77750p-trm.zip Pressure time series from site RBR (.nc) |
UFK14RBR77750p-trm_metadata.xml | UFK14RBR77750p-trm_metadata.txt | UFK14RBR77750p-trm.zip (21.2 MB) |
| UFK14Aqua1571aqc-trm.zip Current meter time series from site Aqua (.nc) |
UFK14Aqua1571aqc-trm_metadata.xml | UFK14Aqua1571aqc-trm_metadata.txt | UFK14Aqua1571aqc-trm.zip (138 KB) |
| UFK14ArgE306E1495aqd-trm.zip Ocean currents profile time series from site S1 (E306) and S2 (1495) (.nc) |
UFK14ArgE306E1495aqd-trm_metadata.xml | UFK14ArgE306E1495aqd-trm_metadata.txt | UFK14ArgE306E1495aqd-trm.zip (2.18 MB) |
| UFK14RDI3734wh-trm.zip Ocean currents profile time series from site RDI (.nc) |
UFK14RDI3734wh-trm_metadata.xml | UFK14RDI3734wh-trm_metadata.txt | UFK14RDI3734wh-trm.zip (3.3 MB) |
Figure 1. The study site is located at the upper portion of the Florida Reef Tract. The Crocker Reef study area is identified with a 1 km x 1 km red box. Current profilers measurements (S1, S2, RDI) and current meter (Aqua) locations are identified as yellow and purple triangles respectively; and the pressure logger (RBR) site as a red square.
Suggested Citation
Torres-Garcia, L.M., Zawada, D., and Smiley, N., 2017, Ocean currents and pressure time series at the Upper Florida Keys—Crocker Reef, FL: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7VD6XBF.