Bering Sea Oceanographic Profiles for Walleye Pollock Fishery Study, 1998

NOAA_NCEI Accession 9900134 contains temperature, salinity, and sigma-theta profiles from CTD casts in the Bering Sea. Data were collected from the Sir Wilfred Laurier and other platforms between February 19 and October 8, 1998, as part of the Fisheries Oceanography Coordinated Investigations (FOCI). The data are stored in ASCII text files formatted according to the NODC F015 standard.

Use Cases

• Modeling water column structure based on temperature and salinity profiles.
• Investigating factors affecting the walleye pollock fishery based on oceanographic data.
• Analyzing seasonal oceanographic changes in the Bering Sea based on the 1998 time range.

Strengths

• Contains three key oceanographic variables: temperature, salinity, and sigma-theta.
• Data collection spans a defined 8-month period from February to October 1998.
• Data were collected for a specific scientific program (FOCI) with a clear research objective.

Limitations

• Last updated 1998-10-08 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Collected from CTD casts aboard the Sir Wilfred Laurier and other platforms.

Time Range

1998-02-19 to 1998-10-08

Freshness

1998-10-08 00:00:00

Geography

Bering Sea