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Thermistor data collected along the Quashnet River, Mashpee/Falmouth MA

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2010-10-01
End Date
2018-04-27

Citation

Briggs, M.A., Scruggs, C.R., Hurley, S.T., Hull, R., and White, E.A., 2018, Temperature and geophysical data collected along the Quashnet River, Mashpee/Falmouth MA (ver. 2.0, March 2020): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7PN93QF.

Summary

Heat is used as a tracer for a variety of physical hydrogeological process. Several types of instruments are used to measure the temperature of surface water and saturated sediments. In the Quashnet River we have been using methods that include: infrared, fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing, and individual logging thermistors. The latter type of data (thermistor) are described and presented here.

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Point of Contact :
Martin A Briggs
Originator :
Martin A Briggs, C R Scruggs, S T Hurley, E A White
Metadata Contact :
Martin A Briggs
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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Quashnet_Metadata_Thermistor.xml
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Briggs_2018_NRDAR_river_geophysics.jpg thumbnail 90.6 KB image/jpeg
Raw_Data.zip 63.83 KB application/zip
SOURCE.zip 912.51 KB application/zip
Processed_Data.zip 3.16 KB application/zip
READ.ME.txt 1.03 KB text/plain

Purpose

Thermistor data collected in the water column are used to locate groundwater discharge zones and understand stream channel heat fluxes. Streambed temperature data are used for a variety of purposes, including the estimation of saturated thermal properties and vertical water fluxes.
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