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Georges Bank Eastern Flank Mooring Arrays
1998-1999

Array Summary:
The Georges Bank moored instrument array (East Flank) was moored at ~41.7N and 66.1W in ~90m of water. The array consisted of a Toroid mooring (EFT) Nov 98 - Mar 99, an instrumented Guard mooring (EFG) Mar 99 - Aug 99, and a replacement Discus mooring (EFD) for the Toroid Mar 99 - August 99. The Toroid and Discus moorings were instrumented with temperature sensors at 10, 20, 45 meters; CTD units at 1, 15, 80 meters; and current meter units at 5 and 25 meters. The Guard mooring was instrumented with a temperature sensor at 1 meter.

DMO Notes:
1.. On mooring EFT (East Flank Toroid) yearday values are numbered consecutively from Nov 1998 to Mar 1999.
2.. At the present time, the values for u and v are not available.
3..These data are served from the orginal Matlab binary files. But for performance reasons, a cached version of these data (in JGOFS/GLOBEC format) is used. Missing data are represented as either "nd" or as "NaN".

Questions regarding these data should be directed to:
Richard Limeburner
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543

Phone: 508 289 2539
E-mail: rlimeburner@whoi.edu

PI Notes:
The original processing comments from the file readme.txt are show below:

For edited raw data at EF mooring
R. Limeburner 7/30/01

Input - Galbraith's *s.mat converted ascii raw data, time corrected
Output - *se.mat, with start/stop time in phase, big spikes interpolated

See plots eftraw.jpg, efsraw.jpg, eftlp.jpg, efslp.jpg

NEP Edited Raw Data  2001		

Filename			Start time		Stop Time		Comment


EFTbt10m1800se.mat	111798 140000	031199 190000	ok
EFTbt20m1800se.mat	111798 140000	031199 190000	ok
EFTbt45m1800se.mat	111798 140000	031199 190000	ok
			
EFTsc1m300se.mat	111798 140000	031199 190000	ok, may need Flagg editing
EFTsc15m450se.mat	111798 140000	031199 190000	ok, may need Flagg editing
EFTsc80m450se.mat	111798 140000	031199 190000	ok, may need Flagg editing
			
EFTvm5m450se.mat	111798 140000	031199 190000	ok
EFTvm25m450se.mat	111798 140000	031199 190000	ok
			
			
EFDbt10m900se.mat	033099 020000	080399 160000	ok
EFDbt20m900se.mat	033099 020000	080399 160000	ok
EFDbt45m900se.mat	033099 020000	080399 160000	ok
EFDbt60m900se.mat	033099 020000	042799 044500	may need more editing

EFDsc2m120se.mat	033099 020000	073199 065600	ok, may need Flagg editing
EFDsc15m225se.mat	033099 020000	062799 110000	ok, may need Flagg editing
EFDsc35m225se.mat	033099 020000	071099 183000	ok, may need Flagg editing
EFDsc80m225se.mat	033099 020000	080399 160000	ok, may need Flagg editing

EFDvm5m450se.mat	033099 020000	080399 160000	temp much shorter than velocity
EFDvm25m450se.mat	033099 020000	051999 223730	ok



Editing EF history

1. Input GAlbraiths 7/26/01 data set with correct time
2. ETTsc1m330s.mat, 
	fix cond spike at cond(12638), cond(18798)
	delete data(32895:32919), delete data(1)
	corrects the start time.
3  EFTsc15m450s.mat ok
4. EFTsc80m450s.mat data(21930:21945)=[] fixes time
	b=wild(temp,200,5.0);
	b=wild(sal,200,5.0);
	b=wild(sigma,200,5.0);10m
5. EFTbt
	
5. EFTvm25m450s.mat
	b=wild(north,200,3.0);
	temp(15033:21929)=[];
7. EFDsc2m120s.mat
	data(88710:91141)=[];
8. EFDsc15m225s.mat
	temp(34322:48609)=[];
	b=wild(sal,200,5.0);
	;b=wild(sigma,200,5.0);
8. EFTsc35m225s.mat
	b=wild(temp,200,5);
	b=wild(temp,100,9);
	b=wild(sal,200,5);
	b=wild(sal,200,7);
	b=wild(sigma,200,7);
	b=wild(sigma,200,7);
	

Last updated April 6, 2006

The U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank Program is a large multi- disciplinary multi-year oceanographic effort. The proximate goal is to understand the population dynamics of key species on the Bank - Cod, Haddock, and two species of zooplankton (Calanus finmarchicus and Pseudocalanus) - in terms of their coupling to the physical environment and in terms of their predators and prey. The ultimate goal is to be able to predict changes in the distribution and abundance of these species as a result of changes in their physical and biotic environment as well as to anticipate how their populations might respond to climate change.

The effort is substantial, requiring broad-scale surveys of the entire Bank, and process studies which focus both on the links between the target species and their physical environment, and the determination of fundamental aspects of these species' life history (birth rates, growth rates, death rates, etc).

Equally important are the modelling efforts that are ongoing which seek to provide realistic predictions of the flow field and which utilize the life history information to produce an integrated view of the dynamics of the populations.

The U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank Executive Committee (EXCO) provides program leadership and effective communication with the funding agencies.

U.S. GLOBEC (GLOBal ocean ECosystems dynamics) is a research program organized by oceanographers and fisheries scientists to address the question of how global climate change may affect the abundance and production of animals in the sea.

The U.S. GLOBEC Program currently had major research efforts underway in the Georges Bank / Northwest Atlantic Region, and the Northeast Pacific (with components in the California Current and in the Coastal Gulf of Alaska). U.S. GLOBEC was a major contributor to International GLOBEC efforts in the Southern Ocean and Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP).