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Velocity Mapping Toolbox (VMT) processed Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) transect data averaged from 2 to 4 meters on June 24, 2015

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2015-06-24

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Hittle, E.A., 2017, Data Collected in Support of the Longshore Water-Current Velocity and the Potential for Transport of Contaminants Pilot Study in Lake Erie: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7KP808D.

Summary

This data release supports the following publication: Hittle, Elizabeth, 2017, Longshore Water-Current Velocity and the Potential for Transport of Contaminants: A Pilot Study in Lake Erie from Walnut Creek to Presque Isle State Park Beaches, Erie, Pennsylvania, June and August 2015: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2016–1206 126 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20161206. This dataset is Velocity Mapping Toolbox (VMT) processed Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) data. The data was processed with a horizontal averaging of 5 grid nodes (Parsons, D.R., Jackson, P.R., Czuba, J.A., Oberg, K.A., Mueller, D.S., Rhoads, B., Best, J.L., Johnson, K.K., Engel, F., and Riley, J. (2013) Velocity Mapping Toolbox (VMT): a processing and [...]

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Point of Contact :
Elizabeth A Hittle
Originator :
Elizabeth A Hittle
Metadata Contact :
Elizabeth A Hittle
publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
USGS Mission Area :
Water
Data Owner :
Pennsylvania Water Science Center

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Data were collected to visualize the water-current velocity and magnitude within Lake Erie between Walnut Creek and Presque Isle State Park Beach 1

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