Reformatted data sets used in the Cooperative LACSD/USGS Palos Verdes Flow Study, 2000--2008

Anderson, Todd; Rosenberger, Kurt J.; Gartner, Anne L.

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Beginning in 1997, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defined a contaminated section of the Palos Verdes shelf in southern California as a Superfund site, initiating a continuing investigation of this area. A number of agencies, including the EPA, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), conducted two oceanographic measurement programs in 2004 and 2007-2008 (SAIC, 2004, 2005; Rosenberger and others, 2010; Sherwood and others, unpublished data) to improve our understanding of the natural processes that resuspend and transport sediment in the area, especially in the region southeast of the Whites Point ocean outfall where earlier measurements were thought to be deficient. Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts (LACSD) deployed a simpler but much broader array of instruments on the Palos Verdes shelf and within the northern reaches of San Pedro Bay from 2000 to 2008 in order to characterize the current and temperature patterns within these regions. This program overlapped the two programs run by USGS and other agencies in 2004 and 2007. The LACSD data were made available to the USGS and the EPA in order to support their joint efforts to model the transport of the contaminated sediments in the region. This report describes the LACSD data sets, the instruments and data-processing procedures used, and the archive that contains the data sets that have passed our quality-assurance procedures.

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70038696

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Anderson, Todd ; Rosenberger, Kurt J.; Gartner, Anne L.

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Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center

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iv, 24 p.; Appendices

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U.S. Geological Survey

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Open-File Report

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2010-1253

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Reformatted data sets used in the Cooperative LACSD/USGS Palos Verdes Flow Study, 2000--2008; 2012; OFR; 2010-1253; Anderson, Todd ; Rosenberger, Kurt J.; Gartner, Anne L.

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Reformatted data sets used in the Cooperative LACSD/USGS Palos Verdes Flow Study, 2000--2008; 2012; OFR; 2010-1253; Anderson, Todd ; Rosenberger, Kurt J.; Gartner, Anne L.