CTD Water Parameter Profiles from California Current Ecosystem Cruises

California offshore waters were sampled during two research cruises in March 2017. The dataset contains water temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, and other parameters from CTD casts used to calibrate the CCE2 mooring. Data were collected by NOAA from the R/V Sally Ride and are provided in NetCDF format.

Use Cases

• Calibrating and validating long-term mooring data from the California Current Ecosystem (CCE2).
• Analyzing vertical profiles of water temperature and salinity offshore California.
• Studying dissolved oxygen and other oceanographic parameters for ecosystem health assessment.
• Investigating short-term variability in ocean conditions during March 2017.

Strengths

• Salinity data have been quality-controlled and adjusted using concurrent water sample data.
• Data originates from a defined research objective to service and calibrate a specific ecosystem mooring (CCE2).
• Covers a specific time range from 2017-03-05 to 2017-03-11 from two research cruises (SR1706, SR1707).

Limitations

• Exact row count, file size, and specific column names are not provided by any source.
• Conflicting 'last updated' dates exist between platforms (2026-04-01 on Data.gov vs. 2017-03-11 on NASA Earthdata).
• The dataset is limited to a one-week period and a specific geographic region offshore California.

Provenance

Source

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce

Collection Method

Collected via Conductivity, Temperature, Depth (CTD) casts from the research vessel Sally Ride.

Time Range

2017-03-05 to 2017-03-11

Freshness

2026-04-01 15:30:00.929468

Geography

North Pacific Ocean offshore California