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Fisheries Oceanography of Coastal Alabama (FOCAL): A Subset of a Time-Series of Hydrographic and Current Data from a Permanent Moored Station Outside Mobile Bay (27 Jan to 18 May 2011)
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Paper Introduction
The purpose of the Fisheries Oceanography in Coastal Alabama (FOCAL) program, which ran from 2006 to 2012, was to capture and understand the highly variable nature of Alabama's nearshore environment as it relates to fisheries production. FOCAL provided a long-term baseline data set that included time-series hydrographic data from a permanent offshore mooring and shipboard surveys (vertical CTD profiles and water sampling), as well as monthly depth-discrete ichthyoplankton and zooplankton sample collections. The subset of data presented here are from the mooring, and includes a vertical array of thermistors, CTDs at surface and bottom, an ADCP at the bottom, and vertical CTD profiles collected at the mooring during maintenance surveys. The mooring is located at 30 05.410'N 88 12.694'W, 25 km southwest of the entrance to Mobile Bay. Temperature, salinity, density, depth, and current velocity data were collected at 20-minute intervals from 2006 to 2012. Other parameters, such as dissolved oxygen, are available for portions of the time series depending on which instruments were deployed at the time.
Figure 1: Diagram of the mooring sensor array, as of 2011, with an inset of Mobile Bay showing the location of the mooring. (need to make this)
