U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists and technical staff deployed instrumented underwater platforms and buoys to collect oceanographic and atmospheric data at two sites near Matanzas Inlet, Florida, on January 24, 2018, and recovered them on April 13, 2018. Matanzas Inlet is a natural, unmaintained inlet on the Florida Atlantic coast that is well suited to study inlet and cross-shore processes. The two study sites were located offshore of the surf zone, in 9 and 15 meters of water depth, in a line perpendicular to the coast. A sea-floor platform was deployed at each site to measure ocean currents, wave motions, acoustic and optical backscatter, temperature, salinity, and pressure. The objective was to quantify the hydrodynamic forcing for sediment transport and the response to such forcing near the seabed in the vicinity of an unmaintained inlet.
Citation Information
| Publication Year | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Title | Summary of oceanographic and water-quality measurements offshore of Matanzas Inlet, Florida, 2018 |
| DOI | 10.3133/ofr20211014 |
| Authors | Marinna A. Martini, Ellyn Montgomery, Steven E. Suttles, John C. Warner |
| Publication Type | Report |
| Publication Subtype | USGS Numbered Series |
| Series Title | Open-File Report |
| Series Number | 2021-1014 |
| Index ID | ofr20211014 |
| Record Source | USGS Publications Warehouse |
| USGS Organization | Woods Hole Science Center |
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