Center for Coastal Studies

    Welcome to the Center for Coastal Studies' Data Zoo!


    The CCS Data Zoo is part of a project, the  Santa Barbara Channel - Santa Maria Basin (SBC/SMB) Study, funded by the  Minerals Management Service (MMS). In addition to the SBC-SMB Study, the Zoo contains data collected by a variety of California coastal studies and data-collection programs. Moreover, as the SBC-SMB Study is still in progress, much of its data remains unavailable to the public. As it becomes available, it will be moved into Zoo exhibits. Broadly categorized descriptions along with links to exhibits follow. For detailed instructions on accessing data, refer to  accessing information at CCS.

    Minerals Management Service Studies:
    The Santa Barbara Channel-Santa Maria Basin Study Study (SBC-SMB). Funded by MMS, a closely articulated program involving observational and computational techniques to obtain the best estimate of the physical oceanographic conditions in the Santa Barbara Channel.
    The Northern California Circulation Study (NCCCS) A 5-year physical oceanography study of circulation on the continental shelf and upper slope between San Francisco and the Oregon border. Objectives: to obtain high-quality, direct and indirect current measurements with sufficient temporal and spatial resolution to describe primary advective processes and circulation in terms of statistics and dynamic processes.
    The Central California Coastal Circulation Study (CCCCS).An 18-month field study (2/84-7/85) of the variability of water mass characteristics and velocity field on the continental shelf and upper continental slope from Point Conception to San Francisco. Measurements resolve finer spatial and shorter temporal scales than the relatively coarse 65 km grid spacing formerly used.
    The CAMP Experiment. Conducted by SAIC with funding from MMS, the study area was near oil platform Hidalgo, WNW from Point Conception. Data includes readings from both primary and secondary moorings, spanning from April, 1992, to July, 1994.
    Other Data Sets:
    CalCOFI.The workstation nemo.ucsd.edu contains Pacific metadata (tide gauges, WOCE stations, acoustic paths); etopo5 (bathymetry); world oceans hydrosearch (1 million bottle and low res ctd casts); climatologies; world oceans bathy contours; climate time series; high resolution coastlines and boundaries for mapping; and more.
    Coastal Ocean Dynamics Experiment (CODE). Multi-institutional research program comprised of a series of small-scale, densely-instrumented field experiments (approximately 4 months duration, from 4/81-8/82) funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). High-quality data sets of physical variables to construct kinematic and dynamic descriptions of dynamical processes governing wind-driven motion of water in the 2 to 10 day band over the continental shelf from Pt. Reyes to Pt. Arena.
    Super CODE.

    GIBR.

    Gulf of California (GOC). Current, temperature, bottom pressure, and met data from a two-year field study (1983-1985) of shelf circulation in the Gulf of California supported by the Office of Naval Research. The observations have been used to characterize dominant circulation patterns and to examine the influences of remote and local wind forcing.

    OPUS (Organization of Persistent Upwelling Structures) Program focused on the persistent upwelling feature occuring between Points Arguello and Conception.
    DUCK94: Bathymetry information and images related to existing digital bathymetry for the Virginia-North Carolina Shelf (35-38 deg N; 74-76 deg W) from the National Ocean Service Digital Bathymetry Database.
    National Data Buoy Center (NDBC). Weekly reports of recently acquired data originally extracted from the agency's CD-ROM dataset and reformatted for ease of use in scientific applications.

     

    Seaspace.

    		 EBC: Drifter Deployment Data.

    NCDC.

    		 National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). Monthly data reports.
    (NOS). Tidal data files from the National Ocean Service (mostly acquired in the NCCCS Study).

    Red Sea Model. Red Sea Model data analysis.
    DelMar. NSF-funded study of temperature and currents over the narrow southern California shelf north of San Diego. Moorings deployed June 1978 through March 1979 at 3 sites, with 2 current meters at 15m, 4 instruments at 30m, and 6 instruments at 60m.
    		SMILE ( The Shelf Mixed Layer Experiment). NSF-funded study of the response of the oceanic surface boundary layer over the continental shelf to atmospheric forcing. Conducted over the northern California shelf between Points Arena and Reyes mid-November 1988 to mid-May 1989.
    Bathymetry: California Department of Boating and Waterways Bathymetric Data, covering Southern California from Mexican Border to South of Santa Cruz. PSMSL: Files in "experimental" status, introduced in September 1992 by the Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level, and update most recently on 6 October 1993.
    CTZ: ADCP, CTD, XBT, drifters, and moorings data. Wind Events and Shelf Transport (WEST) is a 2000-2004 NSF-funded project within the Coastal Ocean Processes (CoOP) Program. The goal of WEST is to better understand the competing influences of wind on productivity. Moored and shore-based time series of meteorological and oceanographic variables acquired from 2000-2003 off Bodega Bay in northern California are available here.
    LINKS
    CDIP (Coastal Data Information Program)
    For questions or comments on the Data Zoo, contact:  Zookeeper@coast.ucsd.edu

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