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Physical and chemical properties of San Francisco Bay waters, 1969-1976 (NCEI Accession 8400194)

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One magnetic tape containing the physical and chemical properties of San Francisco Bay waters was forwarded to NODC by Mr. Richard Smith of the U.S Geological Survey (USGS), Water Resources Division. The data were collected as part of the San Francisco Bay Estuarine Study aboard the POLARIS from April 10, 1969 to September 20, 1976. The parameters in this dataset include: salinity, temperature oxygen, silicate, nitrate, nitrite and pH. Latitudes and longitudes are expressed in meters.

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8400194 AIR TEMPERATURE AIR TEMPERATURE - DRY BULB AIR TEMPERATURE - WET BULB AMMONIA (NH3) BAROMETRIC PRESSURE CARBON - TOTAL ORGANIC CHLOROPHYLL A cloud amount/frequency cloud type CONDUCTIVITY DEPTH - OBSERVATION DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON DISSOLVED OXYGEN DYNAMIC DEPTH ANOMALY HYDROCARBONS - TOTAL RESOLVED HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE NITRATE NITRITE OXYGEN pH PHAEOPIGMENTS phosphate POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS SALINITY SEA STATE Secchi depth SIGMA-T silicate SOLAR RADIATION - ATMOSPHERIC SOUND VELOCITY suspended solids TIDE HEIGHT TIDE STAGE total alkalinity TOTAL CARBON TOTAL PHOSPHORUS turbidity WATER COLOR WATER DENSITY water depth WATER TEMPERATURE WAVE HEIGHT WAVE PERIOD WEATHER WIND DIRECTION WIND FORCE WIND SPEED ZOOPLANKTON BIOMASS bottle meteorological sensor Secchi disk physical profile POLARIS US DOI/USGS/Western Region US DOI/USGS/Western Region North Pacific Ocean oceanography DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOI/USGS > U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > INCOMING SOLAR RADIATION EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND DIRECTION EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND SPEED EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD PROPERTIES > CLOUD FREQUENCY EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD TYPES EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS > PLANKTON > ZOOPLANKTON EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > WATER DEPTH EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN ACOUSTICS > ACOUSTIC VELOCITY EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > ALKALINITY EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > AMMONIA EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > CARBON EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > CHLOROPHYLL EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > HYDROCARBONS EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > NITRATE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > NITRITE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > ORGANIC CARBON EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > OXYGEN EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > PH EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > PHOSPHATE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > PIGMENTS > CHLOROPHYLL EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > SILICATE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > SUSPENDED SOLIDS EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > OCEAN COLOR EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > SECCHI DEPTH EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > TURBIDITY EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN PRESSURE > WATER PRESSURE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > SEA STATE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > WAVE HEIGHT EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > WAVE PERIOD EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > CONDUCTIVITY EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > DENSITY EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > TIDES EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > TIDES > TIDAL HEIGHT SECCHI DISKS > SECCHI DISKS POLARIS (ICES code: 32K7) OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN Avon Pier Bay Bridge Benicia Berkeley Pier Blossom Rock Calaveras Point Candlestick Point Chain Island Coyote Hills Crockett Dumbarton Bridge Golden Gate Hercules Hunters Point Mare Island Martinez Middle Ground Newark Slough North San Mateo Bridge North of Pinole Point Old Sacramento River Oyster Point Palo Alto Pittsburg Point San Pablo Potrero Point Raccoon Strait Ravenswood Point Red Rock Redwood Creek Rio Vista Roe Island San Bruno Shoal San Francisco International Airport Simmons Point South San Mateo Bridge Toland's Landing West of Pinole Point Winter Island

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spatial -121.67,37.47,-122.47,38.18
temporal 1969-04-10T00:00:00+00:00/1976-09-20T00:00:00+00:00
title Physical and chemical properties of San Francisco Bay waters, 1969-1976 (NCEI Accession 8400194)

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