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Title: National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Shallow Water Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) Profiles for selected locations across the Mariana Archipelago from 2022-04-14 to 2022-08-10 (NCEI Accession 0283295)
Abstract: The data described here result from near-shore shallow water Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) casts conducted at select sites around the Mariana Archipelago as part of the ongoing National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP). These surveys were conducted by the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD; formerly the Coral Reef Ecosystem Division) during an ESD-led NCRMP mission to CNMI (Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands) in 2022. The CTD casts provide vertical profiles (30-m max depth, downcast only) of water column conductivity, temperature, and pressure, with calculated depth, salinity, and water density.

The CTD (RBR, Concerto3) was deployed from a small boat using a hand line and held just under the surface for 1 minute to cycle water through the instrument and tubing. Afterward, data were collected by lowering the CTD in profiling mode at an even pace (descent rate ~0.5 to 0.75 meters per second) to a maximum depth of 30 m. Data processing was performed using Ruskin Data Processing Software and the R package "oce".
Date received: 20230914
Start date: 20220414
End date: 20220810
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West boundary: 144.6254
East boundary: 145.8166
North boundary: 19.70832
South boundary: 13.23856
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Submitter: Luers, Lori
Submitting institution: US DOC; NOAA; NMFS; Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center
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Supplementary information: Submission Package ID: E5NM36
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Metadata version: 2
Keydate: 2023-09-28 19:45:37+00
Editdate: 2023-09-29 17:57:18+00