Winter Quarter Lightship

Subsurface Data

USCG Report Data:
name                                    position               water depth       period of obs              depth of obs             comments
Winter Quarter Lightship| 37 55 5 N 74 56 4 W| 96 ft.| Dec 1955 - May 1956| 0, 30, 50, 96 Temp, Sal
Winter Quarter Lightship| 37 55 5 N 74 56 4 W| 75 ft.| Jun 1956 - Sep 1956| 0, 30, 50, 75 Temp, Sal
Winter Quarter Lightship| 37 55 5 N 74 56 4 W| 95 ft.| Oct 1956 - Dec 1956| 0, 30, 50, 95 Temp, Sal
Winter Quarter Lightship| 37 55 5 N 74 56 4 W| 96 ft.| Jan 1957 - Aug 1957| 0, 30, 50, 96 Temp, Sal | 1-7/57  T approx
Winter Quarter Lightship| 37 55 5 N 74 56 4 W| 75 ft.| Sep 1957 -  Dec 1957| 0, 30, 50, 75 Temp, Sal
Winter Quarter Lightship| 37 55 5 N 74 56 4 W| 96 ft.| Jan 1958 - Jun 1958| 0, 30, 50, 95 Temp, Sal
Winter Quarter Lightship| 37 55 5 N 74 56 4 W| 75 ft.| Jul 1958| 0, 30, 50, 75 Temp, Sal
Winter Quarter Lightship| 37 55 5 N 74 56 4 W| 95 ft.| Aug 1958| 0, 30, 50, 95 Temp, Sal
Winter Quarter Lightship| 37 55 5 N 74 56 4 W| 75 ft.| Jul 1958| 0, 30, 50, 75 Temp, Sal
Winter Quarter Lightship| 37 55 5 N 74 56 4 W| 85 ft.| Sep 1958 - Dec 1958| 0, 30, 50, 85 Temp, Sal
Winter Quarter Lightship| 37 55 5 N 74 56 4 W| 96 ft.| Jan 1959 - Dec 1959| 0, 30, 50, 85 Temp, Sal
Winter Quarter Lightship| 37 55 5 N 74 56 4 W| 96 ft.| Jan 1960 - Dec 1960| 0, 30, 50, 96 Temp, Sal
Winter Quarter Lightship| 37 55 5 N 74 56 4 W| 96 ft.| Jan 1961| 0, 30, 50, 85 Temp, Sal  | Discont. 1/31/61
Delaware Lightship was estab. at 38 27.2'  N 74 35.1' W, 105 ft. when Winter Qtr. discontinued.

winter.sub - Records of daily water temperatures and salinity observations for the period Dec. 1955 - Oct.
1961. 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.

winter_sub.kle - Data from portland.sub, tab-delimited with fields labelled by K. Elder.

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