README_ancillary.txt

Overview:

 This data set provides ancillary environmental measurements collected during 2005. i.e. winds, hudson river disharge and the verrazano narrows bridge adcp data. 


Data files are partitioned in the following way:


Wind data collected at NOAA Station ALSN6 - Ambrose Light, NY (from the National Data Buoy center)


Hudson River disharge courtesy of the USGS. Discharges are included from Fort Edwards, Cohoes, Passaic River  and Raritan River.




Data format:

There are two file formats provided, Matlab (*.mat) and ASCII format.

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Variables included in Matlab data files are:
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Wind Files
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Name		Description        
time		Matlab datenum time
speed		Wind Speed (m/s)
direction	WInd Direction (degrees)

 
Disharge file
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Name		 	Description 
time		 	Matlab datenum time
cohoes_dis      	Cohoes Station Disharge(cubic feet per sec)
passaic_dis             Passaic Station Disharge(cubic feet per sec)
fortedwards_dis  	Fort Edwards Station Disharge(cubic feet per sec)
raritan_dis      	Raritan Station Disharge(cubic feet per sec)

Disharge file
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Name		 	Description 
time			Matlab datenum time
bins			Bin numbers (1m bins)
depth			depth (m)
u			e-w velocity	(cm/s)
v			n-s velocity 	(cm/s)
temp			temperatureXS (C)
  


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ASCII files are row-column format.
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Wind files
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Time	Speed	Direction



Disharge file
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Time       Cohoes     	FortEdwards	Passaic    	Raritan    



Narrows file
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Header
bin numbers - 14

Ensembles
line 1  = time	depth	temperature
lines2-15 - u v


Questions? 

Contact 
Eli Hunter 
Rutgers UNiversity
71 Dudley Rd
NEw Brunswick,NJ 08901
732-932-3704
hunter@marine.rutgers.edu