Diamond Shoal Lightship and Lightstation

Subsurface Data

U.S.C.G. Data Reports:
Diamond Shoal Lightship 35 5' 30 N 75 19' 30 W, 200 ft.,   Jan 1955 - Dec 1956, 0, 30, 50, 100, 150, 200 ft. Temp, Sal
Diamond Shoal Lightship 35 5' 30 N 75 19' 30 W, 200 ft.,   Jan 1957- Dec 1960, 0, 30, 50, 100, 150, 180 ft. Temp, Sal
Diamond Shoal Lightship 35 5.3'  N 75 19.7'  W, 200 ft.,     Jan 1961 - Dec 1962, 0, 30, 50, 100, 150, 180 ft. Temp, Sal
Diamond Shoal Lightship 35 5.3'  N 75 19.7'  W, 55 m.,       Jan 1963 - Dec 1963, 0, 9, 15, 30, 46, 55 m.Temp, Sal
Diamond Shoal Lightship 35 5.3'  N 75 19.7'  W, 53 m.,       Jan 1964 - Oct 1966, 0, 9, 15, 30, 46, 53 m. Temp, Sal
Diamond Shoal Light Station 35 9.2'  N 75 17.8'  W, 16 m., Nov 1966 - Nov 1967, 0, 9, 16 m. Temp, Sal
Diamond Shoal Light Station 35 9 12.7' N 75 17' 50.8 W, 16 m., Dec 1967 - Dec 1971, Surf. Temp, Sal

dmdshol.sub - Records of daily water temperatures and salinity observations for the period Dec. 1955 - Dec. 1971. MBT (mechanical bathythermograph) slides read at 15 meter intervals by group at Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. This file is data digitized from U.S.C.G. Oceanographic Reports by the Orkand company at NCDC in fall of 1998. Information regarding keying format can be found here. See list of U.S.C.G. Report Data above for actual depth of measurements and changes in locality and water depth of the Lightship and look here for more background information.

dmdshol_sub.kle - Same data as dmdshol.dat but tab delimited and formatted by K.Elder.

diamond.ls - Subsurface mbt (mechanical bathythermograph) data for the period April 1965 - Dec. 1967 at 5 m intervals given to K. Elder by George Hiemerdinger who read it from an NCDC CDROM.  Information regarding formatting of data available here.
Note:      Apparently there were two groups reading the mbt slides, one at Woods Hole whose work was published in the Coast Guard Reports, and the other at NCDC. The NCDC group read the slide at 5 meter intervals whereas the WH group read them at 15 meter intervals.

diamond.txt - Data from diamond.ls file -  most field names added, tab-delimited and sorted by K. Elder.

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