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RC4USCoast: A river chemistry dataset for regional ocean model application in the U.S. East, Gulf of Mexico, and West Coasts from 1950-01-01 to 2022-12-31 (NCEI Accession 0260455)

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: February 28, 2026 | Last Modified: 2023-04-05T00:00:00.000+00:00
This dataset, River Chemistry for the U.S. Coast (RC4USCoast), consists of historical records of river chemistry and discharge for 140 monitoring sites along the United States East Coast, the Gulf of Mexico, and the West Coast from 1950 to 2022. RC4USCoast is mostly derived from the Water Quality Database of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), but also includes river discharge from the USGS’s Surface-Water Monthly Statistics for the Nation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. RC4USCoast provides monthly time series as well as long-term averaged monthly climatological patterns for twenty-one variables including alkalinity and dissolved inorganic carbon concentration. It is mainly intended as a data product for regional ocean biogeochemical models and carbon chemistry studies in the U.S. coastal regions.

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0260455 AMMONIUM (NH4) DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON (DIC) DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON DISSOLVED OXYGEN NITRATE nitrate + nitrite content (concentration) NITROGEN - ORGANIC pH silicate total alkalinity Total nitrogen WATER TEMPERATURE carbon dioxide (CO2) gas analyzer nutrient autoanalyzer oxygen sensor salinometer temperature sensor chemical physical time series VARIOUS CHARTERED VESSELS United States Geological Survey US Army/Corps of Engineers NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory Ocean Carbon and Acidification Data System (OCADS) US DOC; NOAA; Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research; Ocean Acidification Program (OAP) East Coast - US/Canada Gulf of Mexico West Coast - US/Canada oceanography DOC/NOAA/OAR/AOML > Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, OAR, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOI/USGS > U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior Ocean Acidification Program (OAP) Ocean Carbon and Acidification Data System (OCADS) Project EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > ALKALINITY EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > AMMONIA EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > INORGANIC CARBON EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > NITRATE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > NITRITE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > NITROGEN EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > ORGANIC CARBON EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > OXYGEN EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > PH EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > SILICATE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE Time series alk dic disc do doc don nh4 no3 nox orgNf orgNu phf phl po4 sio2 temp tnf tnu tpf tpu AUTOANALYZER > AUTOANALYZER CO2 ANALYZERS > CO2 ANALYZERS OXYGEN METERS > OXYGEN METERS SALINOMETERS TEMPERATURE SENSORS > TEMPERATURE SENSORS OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF AMERICA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MEXICO OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN Gulf of Mexico United States East Coast United States West Coast

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title RC4USCoast: A river chemistry dataset for regional ocean model application in the U.S. East, Gulf of Mexico, and West Coasts from 1950-01-01 to 2022-12-31 (NCEI Accession 0260455)

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