Temperature and salinity data collected from STD/CTD casts by NOAA Ship DISCOVERER and other platforms in the Coastal Waters of California from February 15, 1938 to March 27, 1985. The data were submitted by the National Marine Fisheries Service - LA JOLLA as part of the California Cooperative Fisheries Investigation (CALCOFI) project and processed to the NODC High-Resolution STD/CTD Data (F022) format. The F022 format likely contains high-resolution profiles of temperature, salinity, density, and possibly dissolved oxygen or transmissivity at specified depth intervals.
Use Cases
- Analyzing long-term temperature trends in California coastal waters based on the 1938-1985 time range
- Studying salinity profiles for oceanographic modeling based on the high-resolution STD/CTD data
- Investigating relationships between temperature, salinity, and density (sigma-t) based on the computed parameters mentioned
- Correlating oceanographic data with meteorological conditions based on the reported environmental data at the time of the cast
Strengths
- Data spans a long historical period from 1938 to 1985
- High-resolution profiles likely reported at depth intervals as fine as 1m
- Includes multiple parameters: temperature, salinity, density, and possibly dissolved oxygen or transmissivity
Limitations
- Last updated 1985-03-27 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
- National Marine Fisheries Service - LA JOLLA, NOAA_NCEI
- Collection Method
- Data collected using STD/CTD casts from ships and processed to NODC standard F022 format.
- Time Range
- 1938-02-15 to 1985-03-27
- Geography
- Coastal Waters of California, Atlantic Ocean