Velocity Mapping Toolbox (VMT) processed Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) transect data averaged from 4 meters to Lake bottom on June 24, 2015
Description
This data release supports the following publication: Hittle, Elizabeth, 2017, Longshore Water-Current Velocity and the Potential for Transport of Contaminants: A Pilot Study in Lake Erie from Walnut Creek to Presque Isle State Park Beaches, Erie, Pennsylvania, June and August 2015: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2016–1206 126 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20161206.
This dataset is Velocity Mapping Toolbox (VMT) processed Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) data. The data was processed with a horizontal averaging of 5 grid nodes (Parsons, D.R., Jackson, P.R., Czuba, J.A., Oberg, K.A., Mueller, D.S., Rhoads, B., Best, J.L., Johnson, K.K., Engel, F., and Riley, J. (2013) Velocity Mapping Toolbox (VMT): a processing and visualization suite for moving-vessel ADCP measurements, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. doi: 10.1002/esp.3367). Data was collected on June 24, the depth range is 4 meters to the lake bottom.
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The metadata original format |
https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.57a2005de4b006cb455537c1.xml |
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Landing page for access to the data |
http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F7KP808D |
Tags
- water-depth
- erie-county
- pennsylvania
- water-circulation
- water-velocity
- lake-erie
- usgs-57a2005de4b006cb455537c1
- presque-isle-state-park