Spot temperature measurements collected along the Quashnet River, Mashpee/Falmouth MA
Description
Heat is used as a tracer for a variety of physical hydrogeological process. For ongoing studies related to groundwater/surface water exchange, temperatures of streambed sediment along the bank, in drainage ditches, and in the river were measured using handheld thermal infrared (FLIR Systems, Inc) cameras and thermocouple (Digi-Sense, Inc) probes. Thermal surveys of the Quashnet river were completed from August 14 to August 25, 2017. Zones of spatially-preferential groundwater discharge were identified as cold anomalies in summer, reflecting the influence from groundwater temperatures of approximately 11 degrees Celsius.
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The metadata original format |
https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.5e601d29e4b01d5092536dd5.xml |
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Landing page for access to the data |
https://doi.org/10.5066/F7PN93QF |
Tags
- environment
- groundwater
- geophysics
- surface-water
- quashnet-river
- seepage
- geoscientificinformation
- inlandwaters
- hydrogeology
- measurement
- temperature
- falmouth-mashpee
- hydrology
- massachusetts
- usgs-5e601d29e4b01d5092536dd5
- thermal