Northwest Pacific Ocean CTD Profiles for Fisheries Research, 1996-1997

NOAA_NCEI provides CTD and other data collected from the NOAA Ship Miller Freeman in the Northwest Pacific Ocean. The dataset includes temperature, salinity, and sigma-theta profiles from 13 February 1996 to 26 February 1997. Data were gathered as part of the Fisheries-Oceanography Cooperative Investigations (FOCI) and are formatted as ASCII text files.

Use Cases

• Analyze vertical ocean structure based on temperature and salinity profiles.
• Study water column density (sigma-theta) for oceanographic modeling.
• Investigate ocean conditions for fisheries research as part of the FOCI program.

Strengths

• Includes three key oceanographic variables: temperature, salinity, and sigma-theta.
• Data collected over a defined one-year period from February 1996 to February 1997.
• Sourced from a NOAA research vessel as part of a formal cooperative investigation (FOCI).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 1997-02-26 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Collected via CTD casts from NOAA Ship Miller Freeman.

Time Range

1996-02-13 to 1997-02-26

Freshness

1997-02-26 00:00:00

Geography

Northwest Pacific Ocean (limit-180)