Muscongus Bay, ME (N060) Bathymetric Digital Elevation Model (30 meter resolution) Derived From Source Hydrographic Survey Soundings Collected by NOAA

Description

Bathymetry for Muscongus Bay was derived from nine surveys containing 109,649 soundings. No surveys were omitted. The average separation between soundings was 43 meters. Of the nine surveys used, one dated from 1943 and the rest dated from 1944. The total range of soundings was 2.1 meters to -70.4 meters at mean low water. Mean high water values between 2.7 and 2.9 meters were assigned to the shoreline. Eighteen 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). Muscongus Bay has seven 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.

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Name Format Description Link
32 Download NetCDF File https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/thredds/fileServer/regional/muscongus_bay_n060_30m.nc
21 OPeNDAP Dataset Access Form https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/thredds/dodsC/regional/muscongus_bay_n060_30m.nc.html
52 Web Map Service GetCapabilities https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/thredds/wms/regional/muscongus_bay_n060_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/muscongus_bay_n060_30m.nc/dataset.html
32 NetCDF Markup Language file https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/thredds/ncml/regional/muscongus_bay_n060_30m.nc?catalog=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ngdc.noaa.gov%2Fthredds%2Fcatalog%2Fregional%2Fcatalog.html&dataset=regionalDatasetScan%2Fmuscongus_bay_n060_30m.nc
0 text search https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/bathymetry/estuarine
0 map search https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/bathymetry/estuarine
50 Web Coverage Service GetCapabilities https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/thredds/wcs/regional/muscongus_bay_n060_30m.nc?service=WCS&version=1.0.0&request=GetCapabilities

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

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