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Velocity Mapping Toolbox (VMT) processed Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) transect data averaged from 0 to 5 meters (afternoon) on August 18, 2015

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2015-08-15

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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 10 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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