Hydrographic study of Buzzards Bay, 1982-1983

A series of four hydrographic cruises at three-month intervals was undertaken in Buzzards Bay in 1982-83. Buzzards Bay is located on the southern coast of Massachusetts, west of Cape Cod. Listings and vertical profiles of one-meter-averaged values of temperatures, salinity, sigma-t and light transmission are presented. Selected vertical cross-sections of temperature, salinity and sigma-t are also included, as are horizontal maps of the same variables at depths of 1 m and 8 m.Prepared for NOAA, National Sea Grant College Program, under grant numbers NA80-AA-D-0007 (R/P-16; R/P-15) and NA83-AA-D-00049 (R/P-13) and the Coastal Research Center under a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation