Shelf export of particulates/transport in continental margin waters

Technical Report · Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:5964521

Pietrafesa, L J

SEEP-II is a sponsored multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary program designed to address the possibility of flux material along and across the MAB. The methodology in SEEP-II employed conventional taut-wire moorings surrounding four RD acoustic doppler profiling current meters along with biological sampling of the source term of the biogenic material and the geochemical measurement of sedimentation rates. The field program was 17 months in length, from February 1988--June 1989, located off the Delaware and Chesapeake Bays. The SEEP-II moored array consists of two main cross-shelf arrays the northern of which had 6 to 8 moorings spanning the 40 to 1,000 m isobaths with one (and in Phase 2, a second) mooring offset about 20 km downshelf at 90m (and in Phase 2, a mooring also at 40m). The basic schematics of the northern and southern arrays are shown. In the region where the MAB shelf water/slope water front intersects the bottom, four RD-ADCP's were the focus of the array. Each of the bottom mounted profilers was accompanied by thermister strings (chains), Aanderaa current meters, fluorometers and transmissometers. 21 figs., 4 tabs.

• Research Organization: North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (USA). Dept. of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: FG09-85ER60376
• OSTI ID: 5964521
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER/60376-5; ON: DE91011030
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
CONTINENTAL MARGIN
WATER POLLUTION
PARTICULATES
ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT
CHESAPEAKE BAY
DELAWARE BAY
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
MONITORING
PROGRESS REPORT
ATLANTIC OCEAN
BAYS
DATA
DOCUMENT TYPES
INFORMATION
MASS TRANSFER
NUMERICAL DATA
PARTICLES
POLLUTION
SEAS
SURFACE WATERS
540320* - Environment
Aquatic- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport- (1990-)