Soloviev, A., Dean, C. W., Weisberg, R., H., Luther, M. E., Wood, J.

ADCP mooring system on the Southeast Florida Shelf

2015

Dania Beach, FL

Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center

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Data Report

"As a part of the South Florida Ocean Measurement Center (SFOMC), Nova Southeastern University (NSU) and University of Southern Florida (USF) deployed a three-dimensional mooring array coordinated with the OSCR with acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCP) and a combination of inductively coupled and/or self-recording temperature/salinity sensors. In 2004, a data report was written including data from 1999 to 2000 (Soloviev et al. 2004). The long-term goal of the project is to provide necessary monitoring of the physical oceanographic environment for the SFOMC Range and to provide access to information on local currents on the Southeast Florida shelf. This report is a presentation of the existing fourteen year data set on the Dania Beach, Florida shelf obtained with an ADCP mooring deployed at an 11 m isobaths, a subsurface buoy deployed at a 240 m isobath on the Miami Terrace, and an AWAC temporarily deployed at an 11 m isobath in Summer 2010. Continuation of long term observations at the existing mooring locations is expected to help the Broward County, FL and state of Florida resource trustees to monitor the state of the coastal ecosystem. The data will also be useful for numeric models and for research projects. In addition, the array provides data useful for understanding a variety of scientific questions. These questions include: What are the dominant modes of interaction between the nearby Gulf Stream and the shelf/near shore circulation? Are these events driven by the wind, Gulf Stream Meanders, propagating continental shelf waves, or near-shore eddies? What is the structure and temporal variability of the internal-wave field? The objective of this project is to provide ADCP data from the Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center (NSUOC) ADCP bottom-mount mooring (off Dania Beach) at 11 m isobath, from the subsurface Calypso ADCP mooring (off Pompano) at 244 m isobath, and from the AWAC bottom mounted system at 11 m isobath. Some potential users of this data include Port Everglades related users (small boaters, port pilots, container ships, petroleum tankers), US Coast Guard search and rescue, US NAVY SFTF, hurricane forecasters, commercial and recreational fishers, county pollution regulators, beach erosion specialists, coastal managers, turtle program scientists and managers, FDEP water quality specialists, coastal resource managers, USGS, and water treatment facility managers. This data report presents an approximately fourteen year dataset collected from a bottom mounted ADCP (NW (W) Bottom Mount) at an 11 m isobath deployed on the Dania Beach shelf and a four year dataset collected from a subsurface ADCP (Calypso subsurface buoy) at a 240 m isobath on the Miami Terrace near Pompano Beach. For a two month period in summer 2010, an AWAC system (AWAC Bottom Mount) was also used to collect data off the Dania Beach shelf at an 11 m isobath. For more details of the experimental design of each unit, see sections 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3. The data from the moorings are provided to users via DVD."

FY2015 CRCP Project ID 789; Project Title: Identifying LBSP Management Options: Quantifying the Contribution of Upwelling to LBSP on SE Florida Reefs by Sub-Watershed; Principal Investigator: Lewis Gramer