Phase II Physical Oceanography – Data Summary

The table below provides the results of the Physical Oceanography element of the Phase II area Long Island Sound Cable Fund Habitat Mapping initiative, including links to the spatial data for locations of the sampling efforts along with the attendant metadata that provides the attributes and data acquisition details and explanations.

Data Description Preview Metadata Download
Location of all physical oceanographic sampling 2017 – 2018

 

 

Map of the locations of the 2017-2018 bottom frame deployments for physical oceanography in the Phase II area

 

Thumbnail map of location of all CTD casts in the Phase II area

Physical oceanography sampling location metadata

.pdf file 3 MB

Physical oceanography sample location log

.pdf file, 3 MB

Bottom frame locations map

ESRI shapefile 2 KB

CTD cast locations map

ESRI .shp 3 KB

 

CTD cast data 2017

 

Thumbnail map of location of all CTD casts in the Phase II area CTD cast metadata 2017

pdf file 98 KB

Zip file of results of 2017 CTD cast data in .nc format

zip file 2 MB

Link to 2017 CTD data on UConn Thredds server

CTD cast data 2018 Thumbnail map of location of all CTD casts in the Phase II area CTD cast metadata 2018

pdf file 98 KB

Zip file of results of 2018 CTD cast data in .nc format

zip file 16 MB

Link to 2018 CTD data on UConn Thredds server

Near bottom temperature & salinity model output Thumbnail map of near bottom temperature in the Phase II area 2017

Thumbnail map of the near bottom salinity in April in the Phase II area

Near bottom temperature & salinity model output metadata

pdf file 586 KB

Near bottom temperature model output map

ESRI .shp file 2 MB

Near bottom salinity model output map

ESRI .shp file 1 MB

Bottom stress & depth averaged  current model output Thumnail map of the bed stress in the Phase II area

Bed stress & near  bottom current metadata

pdf file 593 KB

Bottom stress model output map

ESRI .shp file 7

Depth-averaged current model output map

ESRI .shp file 1 MB

Teledyne RDI Up-looking ADCP data 2017 & 2018 Map of the locations of the 2017-2018 bottom frame deployments for physical oceanography in the Phase II area RDI ADCP Metadata Link to RDI ADCP data on UConn Thredds server, data in .nc format