Carter, Melissa L.; Flick, Reinhard E.; Terrill, Eric; Beckhaus, Elena C.; Martin, Kayla; Fey, Connie L.; Walker, Patricia W.; Largier, John L.; McGowan, John A. (2022). Shore Stations Program, Newport Beach - Balboa Pier. In Shore Stations Program Data Archive: Current and Historical Coastal Ocean Temperature and Salinity Measurements from California Stations. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. https://doi.org/10.6075/J0GX4BCP

City of Newport Beach lifeguards record the daily temperature from a fixed thermistor and take a daily surface salinity sample from the waters surrounding the Newport Pier, which is located about two miles from the mouth of the Santa Ana River. Analysis of these salinity samples indicates that they reflect oceanic conditions except during winter storms when the salinity is strongly affected by runoff from the river. During the first half of this century, these data were recorded predominantly from the Balboa Pier, which is located just 1.7 miles southeast of the Newport Pier. For the last several decades, however, the data has been collected almost exclusively from the Newport Pier. These sites are so similar that the data collected from either location are consistent with the long-term record.

Daily sea surface temperature and salinity measurements for Newport Beach.

• 1924 to present

• 2022

• Carter, Melissa L.
• Flick, Reinhard E.

• City of Newport Beach Lifeguard Operations

California Department of Parks and Recreation, Natural Resources Division, Award #C1670003 (2017-2022), Award# C22820005 (2023).

• Balboa Pier (Newport Beach, Calif.)
• Newport Pier (Newport Beach, Calif.)

• Conductivity
• Long term coastal ocean observations
• Manual shore stations
• Ocean salinity
• Ocean temperature
• Sea surface salinity
• Sea surface temperature
• Shore stations

Point: 33.606687, -117.930206

• data
• text

• English

Identifier: Melissa L. Carter: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3458-4775

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