Tag: water temperature
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Archived water and air temperatures for Nahant, MA
I’ve added the archived temperature data for the Marine Science Center to my current conditions page: http://www.lukemiller.org/seawater/. The complete timeseries, with some large breaks when the monitoring computer was shut down, can be downloaded in this csv file: 2010-2012_MSC_temps.csv (5MB, right-click and save-as). There are three columns, with the timestamps in Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5,…
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Accessing NOAA tide data with R
Here’s some R code that can be used to download archived tide height data from NOAA’s CO-OPS OPeNDAP server. The code makes use of RCurl to send a URL query to the server, and then splits apart the resulting data into a data frame.
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Current temperature conditions at the Marine Science Center
Updated December 2013: The seawater temperature monitoring is no longer functional since I moved away and someone turned off the computer. The data I collected for 2010, 2011, and part of 2012 are available as one csv file: 2010-2012_MSC_temps.csv The time stamps are all in Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5, no daylight savings time) and the…