Mobile Bay, AL (G150) Bathymetric Digital Elevation Model (30 meter resolution) Derived From Source Hydrographic Survey Soundings Collected by NOAA

Description

Bathymetry for Mobile Bay was derived from twenty-three surveys containing 173,661 soundings. Older, overlapping, less accurate surveys were deleted. The average separation between surveys was 79 meters. The surveys used dated from 1960 to 1962. The range of soundings for the surveys was 0.6 meters to -32.9 meters at mean low water. Mean high water values between 0.3 and 0.5 meters were assigned to the shoreline. Nine points were found that were not consistent with the surrounding data. These were removed prior to tinning. DEM grid values outside the shoreline (on land) were assigned null values (-32676). Mobile Bay has eighteen 7.5 minute DEMs and two one degree DEMs. The 1 degree DEMs were generated from the higher resolution 7.5 minute DEMs which covered the estuary. A Digital Elevation Model (DEM) contains a series of elevations ordered from south to north with the order of the columns from west to east. The DEM is formatted as one ASCII header record (A- record), followed by a series of profile records (B- records) each of which include a short B-record header followed by a series of ASCII integer elevations (typically in units of 1 centimeter) per each profile. The last physical record of the DEM is an accuracy record (C-record). The 7.5-minute DEM (30- by 30-m data spacing) is cast on the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) projection. It provides coverage in 7.5- by 7.5-minute blocks. Each product provides the same coverage as a standard USGS 7.5-minute quadrangle but the DEM contains over edge data. Coverage is available for many estuaries of the contiguous United States but is not complete.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 OPeNDAP Dataset Access Form https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/thredds/dodsC/regional/mobile_bay_g150_30m.nc.html
52 Web Map Service GetCapabilities https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/thredds/wms/regional/mobile_bay_g150_30m.nc?service=WMS&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities
21 Download a subset of the NetCDF https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/thredds/ncss/regional/mobile_bay_g150_30m.nc/dataset.html
32 NetCDF Markup Language file https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/thredds/ncml/regional/mobile_bay_g150_30m.nc?catalog=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ngdc.noaa.gov%2Fthredds%2Fcatalog%2Fregional%2Fcatalog.html&dataset=regionalDatasetScan%2Fmobile_bay_g150_30m.nc
0 text search https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/bathymetry/estuarine
0 map search https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/bathymetry/estuarine
32 Download NetCDF File https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/thredds/fileServer/regional/mobile_bay_g150_30m.nc
50 Web Coverage Service GetCapabilities https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/thredds/wcs/regional/mobile_bay_g150_30m.nc?service=WCS&version=1.0.0&request=GetCapabilities

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  • mobile bay
  • bathymetry
  • oceans
  • united states
  • 1 meter - < 10 meters
  • coastal elevation
  • 1 meter - < 30 meters
  • earth science
  • bathymetry/seafloor topography
  • gridded elevations
  • coastal relief
  • water depth
  • coastal processes
  • alabama
  • seafloor topography

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