Physical, meteorological, and biological data collected from non-federal stations assembled by the Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems (NANOOS)

This dataset contains physical, meteorological and geochemical data, collected at moorings located in Puget Sound, WA and along the Washington and Oregon coasts. The datasets include the ORCA moorings in Puget Sound, the Chaâba coastal moorings along the Washington shelf.

The ORCA moorings are buoy platforms taking hydrographic profiles at fixed locations, while also monitoring meteorological conditions. There are currently six (6) moorings located in Puget Sound and Hood Canal. The hydrographic sensors measure temperature, conductivity, pressure, dissolved oxygen concentrations, and chlorophyll and turbidity. The meteorological stations measure barometric pressure, air temperature and dew point temperature, and wind speed and direction. The hydrographic profiles are taken with a target minimum frequency of once per day, with frequency increasing as conditions allow. The meteorological stations measure at one minute intervals. The Northwest Environmental Moorings (NWEM) Group, located at the Applied Physics Lab at the University of Washington, collected the data and provided the data to NANOOS.

The Chaâba and NEMO moorings are located on the Washington shelf, in the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary. The moorings include a mix of fixed-depth loggers, crawling profilers, and acoustic doppler current profilers. Hydrographic measurements include temperature, conductivity, pressure, dissolved oxygen concentrations, chlorophyll and turbidity, and water velocity. Meteorological measurements include barometric pressure, air temperature and dew point temperature, and wind speed and direction. The Northwest Environmental Moorings (NWEM) Group, located at the Applied Physics Lab at the University of Washington, collected the data and provided the data to NANOOS.

The data files are in netCDF format, following the Climate and Forecast metadata convention (CF) and the Attribute Convention for Data Discovery (ACDD).

Tags: abpoa, air_pressure, air_temperature, am169, astoria-megler bridge south channel (odot pier 169), atmosphere, atmospheric pressure, atmospheric pressure measurements, atmospheric radiation, atmospheric temperature, atmospheric water vapor, atmospheric winds, cathlamet bay north channel (uscg day mark green 3), cbnc3, chemical meters/analyzers, chinook river, chlorophyll, chnke, coaof, coastal waters of washington/oregon, columbia river estuary - washington/oregon, concentration_of_colored_dissolved_organic_matter_in_sea_water_expressed_as_equivalent_mass_fraction, conductivity, depth, desdemona sands light, dsdma, earth science, eastward_sea_water_velocity, eliot, elliott point, fort stevens wharf (uscg day mark red26), fractional_saturation_of_oxygen_in_sea_water, grays, grays point (uscg day mark green 13), hammond tide gage, hmndb, humidity, in situ/laboratory instruments, incoming solar radiation, jetta, jetty a, latitude, longitude, lower sand island light (uscg day mark green 5), marsh, marsh island (uscg day mark green 21), mass_concentration_of_chlorophyll_in_sea_water, mole_concentration_of_dissolved_molecular_oxygen_in_sea_water, mole_concentration_of_nitrate_in_sea_water, mole_concentration_of_phosphate_in_sea_water, mott basin, ncbn1, nhead, nitrate, north channel bottom node for etm cruise, north head, northward_sea_water_velocity, ocean chemistry, ocean circulation, ocean currents, ocean optics, ocean pressure, ocean temperature, oceanography, oceans, offshore buoy, ogi01, oxygen, pigments, port of alsea, pressure/height meters, red26, relative_humidity, riverrad, salinity, salinity/density, sandi, saturn estuary station 01, saturn estuary station 03, saturn river radar, saturn river station 05, saturn-07, saturn-08, saturn-09, saturn-10, saturn01, saturn02, saturn03, saturn04, saturn05, saturn07, saturn08, saturn09, saturn10, scattering, sea_water_electrical_conductivity, sea_water_ph_reported_on_total_scale, sea_water_practical_salinity, sea_water_pressure, sea_water_temperature, sea_water_turbidity, seahs, seaside high school, spectrometers/radiometers, surface temperature, surface winds, surface_downwelling_photosynthetic_photon_flux_in_air, surface_partial_pressure_of_carbon_dioxide_in_sea_water, suspended solids, sveni, svenson island (uscg day mark 12a), tansy, tansy point (uscg front range board), tenasillahe island (usfw dock), time, tnslh, turbidity, upward_sea_water_velocity, volume_absorption_coefficient_of_radiative_flux_in_sea_water_due_to_dissolved_organic_matter, volume_scattering_function_of_radiative_flux_in_sea_water, waste water outfall (city of astoria), water pressure, water temperature, water_surface_height_above_reference_datum, water_surface_reference_datum_altitude, wind speed/wind direction, wind_from_direction, wind_speed, wind_speed_of_gust, woody, woody island (uscg pillar rock back range board)
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce