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 1981-10-02 to 1982-01-19 (NCEI Accession 0164026)

The University of Washington maintained 5 current meter moorings, QC811 through QC815 in and around Quinault Canyon. Current meters were all Aanderaa (AA) instruments which measured speed, direction and temperature. 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. Baker, E.T., and B.M. Hickey (1986) Contemporary sedimentation processes in and around an active West Coast submarine canyon. Marine Geology, 71: 15-34. doi.org/10.1016/0025-3227(86)90031-9. Hickey, B., E. Baker and N. Kachel (1986) Suspended particle movement in and around Quinault submarine canyon. Marine Geology, 71: 35-83. Data file format is plain text.

华盛顿大学（University of Washington）在奎纳尔特峡谷（Quinault Canyon）及其周边海域布设并运维了5套海流计锚系站（current meter moorings），编号依次为QC811至QC815。所有海流计均为安德拉（Aanderaa，简称AA）品牌仪器，可同步测量流速、流向与海水温度。该系列仪器的数据采样间隔为20分钟。测得的流速与流向均经旋转校正至真北方向。原始数据首先会被预处理以剔除异常值（spurious values），随后采用覆盖时长约1.5小时的5点二项式滤波器（binomial filter）分别对流速和流向进行独立滤波处理，并将其分解为u、v两个分量。
本项目的相关研究成果可参阅以下文献：
1. 希基（Hickey, B.M.），1989年：《陆架与斜坡环流的模式与过程》。收录于：兰德里（Landry, M.R.）与希基（B.M. Hickey）主编，《华盛顿与俄勒冈州沿岸海洋学（Coastal Oceanography of Washington and Oregon）》，第41-115页，荷兰阿姆斯特丹爱思唯尔科学（Elsevier Science）出版社。
2. 贝克（Baker, E.T.）与希基（B.M. Hickey），1986年：《活跃西海岸海底峡谷内外的现代沉积作用过程》。《海洋地质学（Marine Geology）》，第71卷，第15-34页。DOI：doi.org/10.1016/0025-3227(86)90031-9。
3. 希基（B. Hickey）、贝克（E. Baker）与卡赫尔（N. Kachel），1986年：《奎纳尔特海底峡谷内外的悬浮颗粒物运移》。《海洋地质学（Marine Geology）》，第71卷，第35-83页。
本数据集的数据文件格式为纯文本（plain text）。