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Pacific Ocean,Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary:Monterey Bay,37#-122 (WWMD_VA-Monterey Bay,37#-122) site data in the Water Quality Portal

Data Provider: STORET (Learn more about Water Quality Portal Data Providers)

This ocean site, maintained by the World Water Monitoring Day Virginia (Volunteer) (identifier WWMD_VA), has the name "Pacific Ocean,Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary:Monterey Bay,37#-122" and has the identifier WWMD_VA-Monterey Bay,37#-122. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)18060015.

This site is located in Monterey County County, California at 36.6581000000 degrees latitude and -121.8247000000 degrees longitude using the datum NAD83. No horizontal location accuracy metadata is available.

To download the metadata about this site along with water quality data, go to the Portal Page and enter "WWMD_VA-Monterey Bay,37#-122" into the "Site ID" box under Site Parameters

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Periods of record for data characteristic groups

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Characteristic Group Date Range*
Not Assigned 2014 - 2015
*Date ranges may contain gap years

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Detailed Metadata

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Location Metadata Value
OrganizationIdentifier WWMD_VA
OrganizationFormalName World Water Monitoring Day Virginia (Volunteer)
MonitoringLocationIdentifier WWMD_VA-Monterey Bay,37#-122
MonitoringLocationName Pacific Ocean,Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary:Monterey Bay,37#-122
MonitoringLocationTypeName Ocean
HUCEightDigitCode 18060015
LatitudeMeasure 36.6581000000
LongitudeMeasure -121.8247000000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS-Unspecified
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
CountryCode US
StateCode 06
CountyCode 053
ProviderName STORET