Northern North Pacific Temperature and Salinity Climatology

Ocean temperature and salinity fields for the Northern North Pacific region. NOAA's NCEI Regional Climatology Team developed this high-resolution climatology using over a hundred years of observations from the World Ocean Database. It provides annual, seasonal, and monthly mean values at different depth levels.

Use Cases

• Analyzing long-term trends in ocean temperature and salinity for climate change studies.
• Providing a baseline for regional marine ecosystem and fisheries research.
• Validating and calibrating ocean circulation and climate models.
• Studying seasonal and interannual variability of oceanographic conditions.

Strengths

• Based on a long-term observational archive spanning more than a hundred years.
• Incorporates a great deal of new data not previously available for the region.
• Provides high-resolution, quality-controlled fields for annual, seasonal, and monthly time scales.

Limitations

• Specific row counts, file sizes, and complete column lists are not provided by any source.
• Sources conflict on the last updated date, reporting either 2012-12-31 or 2026-03-05.

Provenance

Source

NOAA NCEI Regional Climatology Team, using the World Ocean Database archive.

Collection Method

Observational data synthesis and quality control to create mean climatological fields.

Time Range

Observations span over more than a hundred years.

Freshness

2026-03-05 23:16:05.691818

Geography

Northern North Pacific region.