FOCI Moored Current Meter Data from the North Pacific

From February 16, 1994 to May 25, 2002, moored current meters collected oceanographic data in the Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, and North Pacific Ocean. The dataset includes velocity components, speed, direction, salinity, pressure, conductivity, and temperature, supporting the Fisheries-Oceanography Cooperative Investigations (FOCI) project. Data are self-documenting but not in standard formats.

Use Cases

• Analyzing current speed and direction to model ocean circulation patterns.
• Correlating temperature and salinity data with fisheries productivity studies.
• Validating hydrodynamic models using East/West (U) and North/South (V) velocity components.
• Investigating pressure and conductivity for water mass characterization.

Strengths

• Covers a significant multi-year time series from 1994 to 2002.
• Includes multiple physical oceanographic parameters (e.g., velocity, temperature, salinity).
• Data is self-documenting, providing inherent context.

Limitations

• Data format is non-standard, requiring specialized handling.
• Key metadata such as row count, file size, and license are unavailable across all sources.
• There is a conflict in the reported last updated date (2002-05-25 vs. 2026-03-06).

Provenance

Source

Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL), NOAA NCEI

Collection Method

Data collected by moored current meters.

Time Range

1994-02-16 to 2002-05-25

Freshness

2026-03-06 00:02:30.246778

Geography

Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean