Experiment:	CODE (Coastal Oceanographic Dynamics Experiment)
Funding Agency: NSF (National Science Foundation) 
Contractors:	NCAR, NOAA, USGS, WHOI, SIO, OSU, UNH
Dates:		April 1981 - August 1982
Location:	North of the San Francisco bay - Pt. Reyes to Pt. Arena

Data acquired during experiment:

	Moored current meter data (/code/current_meters)
	Hydrographic measurements (/code/ctd)
	Lagrangian surface drifters (/code/drifters)
	Sea-level observations (see /NOS)
	Meteorological data (see NDBC and /code/met_stations)
	XBT (not archived in the Data Zoo)

The Coastal Ocean Dynamics Experiment (CODE) was undertaken to identify and
study the important dynamical processes which govern the wind-driven motion of
coastal water over the continental shelf.  The initial effort in this
multi-year, multi-institutional research program was to obtain high-quality
data sets of all the relevant physical variables needed to construct accurate
kinematic and dynamic descriptions of the response of shelf water to strong
wind forcing in the 2 to 10 day band.  A series of the small-scale,
densely-instrumented field experiments of approximately four months duration
(called CODE-1 and CODE-2) were designed to explore and determine the
kinematics, momentum, and heat balances of the local wind-driven flow over a
region of the northern California shelf.

Zookeeper@coast.ucsd.edu
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