Weeks Bay Water Sampling and Hydrographic Profiles 1990-2000

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This dataset contains ten years of physical, chemical, and biological data collected during shipboard surveys in Weeks Bay, Alabama, between June 1990 and May 2000. Surveys consisted of up to 19 stations throughout Weeks Bay and just beyond its mouth in Bon Secour Bay. Hydrographic profiles and water samples were collected at each station.

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Author Lei Hu
Maintainer data@disl.org
Last Updated July 23, 2022, 03:05 (UTC)
Created July 23, 2022, 03:05 (UTC)
Access_Constraints Please contact DISL Data Management for access to the dataset.
ISO 19115 Topic Categories oceans, inlandWaters
Place Keywords DISL, Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Weeks Bay, Alabama
Theme Keywords water quality, shipboard surveys, hydrographic profiles, temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, pH, PAR, Secchi, water sampling, dissolved inorganic carbon, DIC, dissolved inorganic nutrients, dissolved organic carbon, DOC, phosphate, silicate, ammonium, nitrite, nitrate, dissolved organic nitrogen, DON, dissolved organic phosphorous, DOP, total dissolved nitrogen, TDN, total dissolved phosphate, TDP, suspended sediments, particulate carbon, PC, particulate nitrogen, PN, particulate phosphorous, PP, Chlorophyll a, primary productivity, phytoplankton production
Use_Constraints Acknowledgment of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL), NOAA National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS), and Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant is required in products developed from these data, and such acknowledgment as is standard for citation and legal practices for data source is expected by users of these data. Users should be aware that comparison with other data sets for the same area from other time periods may be inaccurate due to inconsistencies resulting from changes in mapping conventions, data collection, and computer processes over time. The distributor shall not be liable for improper or incorrect use of these data, based on the description of appropriate/inappropriate uses described in the metadata document. These data are not legal documents and are not to be used as such.
dc.coverage.placeName DISL Dauphin Island Sea Lab Weeks Bay Alabama
dc.coverage.t.max 20000516T
dc.coverage.t.min 19900621T
dc.coverage.x.max -87.802
dc.coverage.x.min -87.844
dc.coverage.y.max 30.49979
dc.coverage.y.min 30.3715
dc.creator DISL: Pennock Lab
dc.date Unpublished material
dc.description This dataset contains ten years of physical, chemical, and biological data collected during shipboard surveys in Weeks Bay, Alabama, between June 1990 and May 2000. Surveys consisted of up to 19 stations throughout Weeks Bay and just beyond its mouth in Bon Secour Bay. Hydrographic profiles and water samples were collected at each station.
dc.language en
dc.subject oceans inlandWaters
dc.title Weeks Bay Water Sampling and Hydrographic Profiles 1990-2000
dc.type database
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