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Ardhuin Publication_Date: 2002 Title: Ardhuin, 2002: coast of Duck, North Carolina Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document Online_Linkage: Description: Abstract: Sediment and bedform data obtained in the course of ONR research on the U.S. east coast continental shelf off North Carolina Purpose: To create a digital version of ONR data related to bedform research for inclusion in the usSEABED data collection Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: Pre-2002 Currentness_Reference: ground condition Status: Progress: In work Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Unknown Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -75.738170 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -74.837500 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 36.584300 South_Bounding_Coordinate: 36.113350 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: General Theme_Keyword: ripples Theme_Keyword: waves Theme_Keyword: shelf Theme_Keyword: SHOWEX Theme_Keyword: observations Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: General Place_Keyword: Atlantic coast Place_Keyword: East Coast Place_Keyword: North Carolina Place_Keyword: United States Access_Constraints: None. Use_Constraints: None. Browse_Graphic: Browse_Graphic_File_Name: ardhuin.jpg Browse_Graphic_File_Description: Image map showing extent and distribution of data layer coverage Browse_Graphic_File_Type: JPEG Data_Set_Credit: Please review the cross reference information for the original data set credit to Ardhuin (2002.) Native_Data_Set_Environment: Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.3.0.800 Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: Ardhuin, F. Originator: Drake, T.G. Originator: Herbers, T.H.C. Publication_Date: 2002 Title: Observations of wave-generated vortex ripples on the North Carolina continental shelf Series_Information: Series_Name: Journal of Geophysical Research Issue_Identification: VOL. 107, NO. C10, 3143 Data_Quality_Information: Lineage: Process_Step: Process_Description: Data was digitized in MapInfo from this paper's figures for a Roughness paper with georegistration internally accurate to 1 or 2 pixels per diagram. Process_Time: April 2004 Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Chris Jenkins Contact_Organization: Institute of Arctic & Alpine Research (INSTAAR) University of Colorado at Boulder Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 1560 30th Street Address: Campus Box 450 City: Boulder State_or_Province: CO Postal_Code: 80309-0450 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: (303) 492-6387 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (303) 492-6388 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: chris.jenkins@colorado.edu Process_Step: Process_Description: Grainsizes estimated from colour of dots vs spectral scale (acc=0.02mm) [Sites 50 & 51 were not plotted on the GRZ map) Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Chris Jenkins Contact_Organization: Institute of Arctic & Alpine Research (INSTAAR) University of Colorado at Boulder Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 1560 30th Street Address: Campus Box 450 City: Boulder State_or_Province: CO Postal_Code: 80309-0450 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: (303) 492-6387 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (303) 492-6388 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: chris.jenkins@colorado.edu Process_Step: Process_Description: Digital data were checked, formatted to dbSEABED input format, then processed using dbSEABED software to produce a range of output formats. The processing contained quality checking that may have declined to pass faulty or suspect data to outputs. 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