Construction of Digital Bathymetry for the Gulf of Maine

Appendix

Metadata

• National Ocean Service Hydrographic Survey Data from NGDC
• WWW: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov

• Marine Trackline Bathymetric Data from NGDC
• WWW: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov

• DBDB-V Digital Bathymetry Data Base from the Naval Oceanographic Office.
• WWW: http://www.navo.navy.mil/

• World Vector Shoreline from the Defense Mapping Agency
• WWW: http://www.tmpo.dma.gov:8001/guides/dtf/wvs.html

• North American 30 arc-second Digital Elevation Model from the U.S. Geological Survey
• WWW: http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/Webglis/glisbin/guide.pl/glis/hyper/guide/30asdem

• ETOPO5 Digital relief of the Surface of the Earth from the Defense Mapping Agency
• WWW http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/announcements/announce_relief.html

• GEBCO General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans from International Hydrographic Office
• WWW: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/announcements/announce_relief.html

• Bathymetric Trackline Data from the U.S. Globec Georges Bank Program
• WWW: http://globec.whoi.edu

• NOAA Medium resolution digital Shoreline, no FGDC metadata available but great description on the WWW page.
• WWW: http://seaserver.nos.noaa.gov/projects/shoreline/shoreline.html

References

Lynch, D.R. and C. R. Naimie, 1993, The M2 tide and its residual on the outer banks of the Gulf of Maine, Journal of Physical Oceanography,  v. 23, n. 10, p. 2222-2253.

Sandy, Richard J., 1996, The Navy's bathymetric databases... from the sea, Sea Technology. v. 37, n. 11, p. 53-56.

Smith W.H.F. and P. Wessel, 1990, Gridding with continuous curvature splines in tension, Geophysics. v. 55, n. 3, p. 293-305.

Wessel, P., and W. H. F. Smith, 1995, New version of the Generic Mapping Tools released, EOS Trans. Amer. Geophys. U., v. 76, p. 329.

Wessel, P., and W. H. F. Smith, 1991, Free software helps map and display data, EOS Trans. Amer. Geophys. U., v. 72, p. 445-446.

Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Cheryl Ann Blain of NRL for supplying the DBDB-V data, David Greenberg of Bedford Institute of Oceanography for his unique dataset and to George Sharman of NOAA/NOS for many extremely helpful discussions regarding bathymetry data.

For comments and questions, contact Rich Signell