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Time-series Photographs of the Sea Floor in Western Massachusetts Bay, Version 2, 1989 - 1996 Skip navigational side bar

Title Page
Abbreviations
Introduction
Instrumentation
Instrument Deployments
Digitizing the Films
Creating the Time-Lapse Movies
Viewing Photographs and Movies
Description of Movie Frames
Highlights of Time-Series Photographs
Notes on Individual Time-Series
Oceanographic Data
Matlab Routines
Acknowledgments
References Cited

Conversion Factors and Abbreviations

MultiplyByTo obtain
  Length  
millimeter (mm) 0.03937 inch (in)
centimeter (cm) 0.3937 inch (in)
meter (m) 3.281 foot (ft)
kilometer (km) 0.6214 mile (mi)
  Speed  
centimeter per second (cm/s) 0.3937 inch per second
centimeter per second (cm/s) 0.01946 knot
  Pressure  
millibar (mb) 0.01 Pascal (Pa)

Temperature in degrees Celsius (°C) may be converted to degrees Fahrenheit (°F) as follows: °F=(1.8×°C)+32

Acronyms
Definitions
.avi extension for an Audio Video Interleave file (a format for movies)
BASS Benthic Acoustic Stress Sensor (a type of current meter)
EST Eastern Standard Time
Excel Excel spreadsheet (Microsoft Office software)
GMT Greenwich Mean Time
HTML Hypertext markup language
Hz Hertz, cycle per second
LED Light emitting diode
mab meters above bottom
MATLAB Matrix Laboratory (software from the MathWorks)
MWRA Massachusetts Water Resources Authority
.png extension for a Portable Network Graphics file (a format for images)
PSDEV Standard deviation of burst bottom pressure measurements
.tif extension for a Tagged Image File Format file (a format for images)
USCG U.S. Coast Guard
USGS U.S. Geological Survey
WHOI Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
.xls extension for an Excel spreadsheet file
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