Moro Coho Slough Quality Under Intense Real-time Sampling (MCSQUIRTS) - Moss Landing Marine Labs

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--Contacts--
Data Manager: Jason Adelaars (jadelaars@mlml.calstate.edu)
MLML Director: Jim Harvey (jharvey@mlml.calstate.edu)

--Data Citation--
[MLML] Moss Landing Marine Labs. 2014. Historical Moro Cojo Slough Water Quality Data (insert date range) [Internet]. [cited (insert date of download)]. Available from: 

--Brief Narrative--
These instruments are installed in the upper 6 inches of water on a floating platform within the lower Moro Cojo Slough (near Highway 1 culvert).
The sensors are cleaned of biofouling and calibrated on a monthly interval


Sensors and Calibrations/Redeployments
Seabird SUNA v2:
YSI EXO1:
Sontek ADCP: 


--Data Units--
utc_time: coordinated universal time
unix_time: seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00Z
temp: degrees Celcius
cond (Conductivity): Siemens per meter
Salinity: PSU-78
odo (Dissolved Oxygen): micromole per liter
sat (Dissolved Oxygen Saturation): percent (%)
pH: pH units
stage (relative water level): meters
area (relative cross-sectional area of flow in culvert): square meters
discharge (volume per unit time in one culvert): cubic meters per second
total discharge (volume per unit time in both culverts): cubic meters per second
Nitrate_um: micromoles per liter
Nitrogen_mg: miligrams per liter
bga_rfu:Blue-green algae in relative fluorescence units
bga_ugl:Blue-green algae in micrograms per liter
chla_rfu:Chlorophyll-a fluorescence in relative fluorescense units
chla_ugl:Chlorphyll-a fluorescence in micrograms per liter
tds (total dissolved solids):