Eastward and northward components of ocean current and water temperature collected from moorings in the vicinity of Quinault Canyon in the North East Pacific Coast from 1979-04-28 to 1979-08-28 (NCEI Accession 0163893)

The University of Washington deployed 9 current meter moorings in the vicinity of Quinault Canyon. Of those 9 moorings, 6 moorings were recovered with useful data: QC1, QC2, QC5, QC7, QC8, and QC10. QC3 was not deployed and QC4 and QC6 were not recovered. One instrument from QC9 was found on the beach at Brandon, OR, July 12 but it leaked and no data was recovered. Current meters used were primarily Aanderaa (AA) meters and 2 Vector Measuring Current Meters (VMCM) instruments. Unfiltered data from the VMCM instruments is not available and therefore not included in this set. The AA data was sampled in 20 minute intervals. Speed and direction were measured and rotated to true North. Data was first edited for spurious values, then speed and direction were independently filtered with a 5 point binomial filter spanning approximately 1.5 hours and resolved into u and v components. Results from this project can be found in: Hickey, B.M. (1989) Patterns and processes of shelf and slope circulation. In: Landry, M.R. and B.M. Hickey (eds.), Coastal Oceanography of Washington and Oregon, pp. 41-115, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Data file format is plain text.

华盛顿大学（University of Washington）在奎纳尔特峡谷（Quinault Canyon）附近部署了9台海流计锚系（current meter moorings）。在全部9台锚系中，6台成功回收并获取有效数据，分别为QC1、QC2、QC5、QC7、QC8与QC10。QC3未完成部署，QC4与QC6则未能回收。7月12日，在俄勒冈州布兰登（Brandon, OR）海滩发现了QC9的一台仪器，但该仪器发生泄漏，未获取有效数据。本次实验所用的海流计以安德拉（Aanderaa，AA）型号为主，另配备2台矢量测量海流计（Vector Measuring Current Meters，VMCM）。VMCM仪器的未滤波数据无法获取，因此未被纳入本数据集。AA数据的采样间隔为20分钟。测得的流速与流向首先被校准至真北方向；随后数据先经过编辑以剔除异常值（spurious values），再分别采用跨度约1.5小时的5点二项式滤波器（binomial filter）对流速和流向进行独立滤波，并将其分解为u、v分量。本项目的研究成果可参阅：Hickey, B.M.（1989）《陆架与斜坡环流的模式及过程》，收录于Landry, M.R.与B.M. Hickey主编的《华盛顿与俄勒冈州海岸海洋学》，第41-115页，荷兰阿姆斯特丹爱思唯尔科学出版社（Elsevier Science）出版。本数据集的文件格式为纯文本（plain text）。