Dataset: Weather

Name: Weather conditions recorded near the MBL Dock, Woods Hole, MA, USA on August 14, 2012 (Mnemiopsis feeding in turbulence project)
Published: 2015-03-27
Keywords: oceans

Cite This Dataset

Project:

Turbulence and Suspension Feeding - a New Approach using the Lobate Ctenophore Mnemiopsis Leidyi (Mnemiopsis feeding in turbulence)

Principal Investigator:

John H. Costello (Providence College)

Co-Principal Investigator:

Sean Colin (Roger Williams University, RWU)

John O. Dabiri (California Institute of Technology, Caltech)

Contact:

John H. Costello (Providence College)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Shannon Rauch (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version:

27 March 2015

Version Date:

2015-03-27

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Weather conditions recorded near the MBL Dock, Woods Hole, MA, USA on August 14, 2012 (Mnemiopsis feeding in turbulence project)

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Description

Weather conditions recorded near the MBL Dock, Woods Hole on August 14, 2012.

Reference:
Sutherland, K.R., Costello, J.H., Colin, S.P., and Dabiri, J.O. 2014. Ambient fluid motions influence swimming and feeding by the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi. J. Plankton Res. 36(5): 1310–1322. doi:10.1093/plankt/fbu051

Methods & Sampling

Wind data originated from a local weather station located at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (within 150 m of the sampling location).

Methods and precision described in:
Sutherland, K.R., Costello, J.H., Colin, S.P., and Dabiri, J.O. 2014. Ambient fluid motions influence swimming and feeding by the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi. J. Plankton Res. 36(5): 1310–1322. doi:10.1093/plankt/fbu051

Data Processing Description

BCO-DMO edits:
- Modified parameter names to conform with BCO-DMO naming conventions.
- Modified formatting of date and time.
- Replaced blanks with 'nd' to indicate 'no data'.
- Added lat and lon of the dock using values provided on the metadata form), and location name.

Data Files

File
weather.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 27.91 KB) MD5:027b4c638c7f9e444d64eaba4c017a5e Primary data file for dataset ID 554493

More Information about this dataset

Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1061353
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1061182
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1061268

Deployments

Deployment	Synonyms	Start Date	Platform	Investigator
MBL_Dock_0812		2012-08-14	MBL	John H. Costello (Principal Investigator) Sean Colin (Co-Principal Investigator) John O. Dabiri (Co-Principal Investigator)	data info

Instruments

Automated Weather Station

Supplied Name: Weather Station

Supplied Description:

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Automated Weather Station

Acronym: AWS

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/102/

Generic Description:

Land-based AWS systems are designed to record meteorological information.

Parameters

Date and time formats are described in python strftime() syntax.

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
location	Description of sampling location.	text	no_bcodmo_term
lat_dock	Latitude of the MBL Dock. The weather station was located within 150 m of the dock.	decimal degrees	no_bcodmo_term
lon_dock	Longitude of the MBL Dock. The weather station was located within 150 m of the dock.	decimal degrees	no_bcodmo_term
date_local	Month, day, and year of sampling. (Local time zone, EST)	mmddyyyy	date_local
time_local	Time (hours, minutes, seconds). (Local time zone, EST)	HHMMSS	time_local
temp_air	Air temperature.	degrees Fahrenheit (F)	temp_air
dewpoint	Dewpoint temperature.	degrees Fahrenheit (F)	no_bcodmo_term
press_air	Air pressure.	inches (in)	no_bcodmo_term
wind_dir	Wind direction.	nominal/text	wind_dir
wind_dir_degrees	Wind direction.	degrees	no_bcodmo_term
wind_speed_mph	Wind speed in mph.	miles per hour (mph)	no_bcodmo_term
wind_speed_gust_mph	Gusting wind speed = maximum wind speed during time interval.	miles per hour (mph)	no_bcodmo_term
wind_speed_m	Wind speed in m/s.	meters per second (m/s)	no_bcodmo_term
humidity	Humidity.	percent (%)	humidity
precip	Precipitation.	inches (in)	no_bcodmo_term
ISO_DateTime_Local	Date and time formatted to ISO 8601 standard. This standard is based on ISO 8601:2004(E) and takes on any of the following forms: YYYY-mm-ddTHH:MM:SS[.xx] (local time) e.g.: 2009-08-30T09:05:00[.xx] (local time) 2009-08-30T14:05:00[.xx]Z (UTC time) 2009-08-30T14:05:00[.xx]-05:00 (local time with time zone).	YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS[.xx]	ISO_DateTime_Local

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