Kelp plants were tagged monthly with drifters in the Santa Barbara Channel between November of 2015 and December of 2017. This dataset contains GPS positions of freely drifting kelp plants (nominally) every 10 minutes. Tagged kelp plants begin at one of three kelp forests (Mohawk, Hope Ranch, or Isla Vista) off the Santa Barbara coast.
Various tabular formats of these data are available by clicking the "Get Data" button on this page and then selecting "Downloads & Other Options."
These data are also available as a Matlab struct data type containing data for each drift deployment.
Download: kelp_drifter_data.mat (865 KB)
Ohlmann, C. (2018) Data from freely drifting kelp plants tagged with drifters in the Santa Barbara Channel between November of 2015 and December of 2017. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2018-08-03 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. doi:10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.739111.1 [access date]
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