USGS Measurements of Water Quality in San Francisco Bay (CA), 1969-2015

Description

The U.S. Geological Survey maintains a program of water-quality studies in San Francisco Bay (CA) that began in 1969. We plan a USGS Data Release to archive and make available all measurements made from 1969 through 2015. Water-quality constituents include salinity, temperature, light attenuation coefficient, and concentrations of chlorophyll-a, dissolved oxygen, suspended particulate matter, nitrate, nitrite, ammonium, silicate and phosphate. Water samples are collected at 37 fixed sampling locations along a 145-km transect from lower South San Francisco Bayo the lower Sacramento River. A map of sampling locations is available on the project website at: https://sfbay.wr.usgs.gov/access/wqdata/overview/wherewhen/stnmap.html

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/F7TQ5ZPR
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.5841f97ee4b04fc80e518d9f.xml

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  • salinity
  • chlorophyll-a
  • nutrients
  • usgs-5841f97ee4b04fc80e518d9f
  • water-quality
  • temperature
  • dissolved-oxygen
  • turbidity

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