SCOPE experiment cross-shore array measurements, Santa Rosa Island, Florida (December 2013)

This dataset contains time series measurements over the period 3-17 December 2012 from six mooring stations within 500 meters of the shoreline at Beasley Park on Santa Rosa Island, Florida. Four stations had bottom-mounted upward-looking 2MHz Aquadopp ADCPs with CTDs attached to the ADCP frames. Two stations had thermistor strings. One station had only a single pressure and temperature sensor. CARTHE investigators conducted the Surfzone Coastal Oil Pathway Experiment (SCOPE) during the period 2-19 December 2013, focused on measuring the inner-shelf and surf-zone processes responsible for oil transport near Santa Rosa Island, FL. The intensive three-week experiment included a cross-shore array of fixed instruments to measure winds, waves, currents, and water properties from 10m water depth to the shoreline. Lagrangian drifters, dye releases, and moving-vessel measuring platforms were also used. This unique set of observations is valuable both for quantifying nearshore physics and mixing estimates, and for assessing nearshore model forecasts. The observations captured a wide range of wind and wave forcing due to a number of synoptic winter storms that occurred during the experiment. This dataset was created by the Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment (CARTHE). This research was made possible by a grant from BP/The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative.