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Title: Temperature profile data from surface sensors and CTD casts from the Gulf of Alaska from the NOAA Ship MILLER FREEMAN as part of the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program (OCSEAP) from 17 April 1990 to 11 October 1990 (NODC Accession 9100188)
Abstract: Temperature profile data were collected from surface sensors and CTD casts in the Gulf of Alaska from the NOAA Ship MILLER FREEMAN from 17 April 1990 to 11 October 1990. Data were collected by the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) as part of Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program (OCSEAP) and Fisheries-Oceanography Cooperative Investigations (FOCI). Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard F022 High-Resolution CTD/STD Output Format. Full format description is available from NODC at www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-Archive/f022.html. An analog file for this accession is available from NODC user services.

The F022 format contains high-resolution data collected using CTD (conductivity-temperature-depth) and STD (salinity-temperature-depth) instruments. As they are lowered and raised in the oceans, these electronic devices provide nearly continuous profiles of temperature, salinity, and other parameters. Data values may be subject to averaging or filtering or obtained by interpolation and may be reported at depth intervals as fine as 1m. Cruise and instrument information, position, date, time and sampling interval are reported for each station. Environmental data at the time of the cast (meteorological and sea surface conditions) may also be reported. The data record comprises values of temperature, salinity or conductivity, density (computed sigma-t), and possibly dissolved oxygen or transmissivity at specified depth or pressure levels. Data may be reported at either equally or unequally spaced depth or pressure intervals. A text record is available for comments.
Date received: 19911007
Start date: 19900417
End date: 19901011
Seanames: Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean
West boundary: -179.210833
East boundary: -151.743889
North boundary: 59.071667
South boundary: 52.035556
Observation types: physical, profile
Instrument types: CTD, meteorological sensor
Datatypes: SALINITY, water depth, WATER TEMPERATURE
Submitter: Lawrence, Ms. Leslie
Submitting institution: US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Collecting institutions: US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Contributing projects: FOCI, OCSEAP
Platforms: Miller Freeman (31FN)
Number of observations:
Supplementary information: Note: Metadata for this accession were extracted from a legacy database
maintained by the U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). The
design of the database did not exactly reflect the FGDC Content
Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM).

Principal Investigator (PI) and organization contact information
accurately represents all available information from the legacy database
at the time that this description was created. However, proper
attribution of a PI to a specific institution or the role (submitting or
collecting) taken by an institution may not be correct due to inexact
mapping between fields in the legacy database and the CSDGM. Due to this
uncertainty, the contact information was initially recorded in the
Supplemental Information element of the CSDGM description.

To develop more accurate metadata, the NODC reviews metadata for all
accessions on an ongoing basis.


Points of contact for this data set include:
Contact info:
Agency: US DOC; NOAA; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY; PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY
PI: Lawrence, Ms. Leslie
Address:
address: 7600 SAND POINT WAY NE, BLDG 32
city: SEATTLE
state: WA
postal: 98115-0070
country: UNITED STATES
Availability date: 19911007
Metadata version: 3
Keydate: 2002-11-19 19:40:22+00
Editdate: 2013-03-19 15:31:39+00