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Title: Physical, meteorological, and other data from surface sensors and CTD casts from NOAA Ship SURVEYOR and other platforms as part of the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program (OCSEAP) from 1981-02-23 to 1983-04-30 (NCEI Accession 8300167)
Abstract: Physical, meteorological, and other data were collected from surface sensors and CTD casts from NOAA Ship SURVEYOR and other platforms from 23 February 1981 to 30 April 1983. Data were collected by Science Applications, INC. (SAI) and the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) as part of Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program (OCSEAP). Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard F022 High-Resolution CTD/STD Output Format. An analog file for this accession is available.

The F022 format contains high-resolution data collected using CTD (conductivity-temperature-depth) and STD (salinity-temperature-depth) instruments. As they are lowered and raised in the oceans, these electronic devices provide nearly continuous profiles of temperature, salinity, and other parameters. Data values may be subject to averaging or filtering or obtained by interpolation and may be reported at depth intervals as fine as 1m. Cruise and instrument information, position, date, time and sampling interval are reported for each station. Environmental data at the time of the cast (meteorological and sea surface conditions) may also be reported. The data record comprises values of temperature, salinity or conductivity, density (computed sigma-t), and possibly dissolved oxygen or transmissivity at specified depth or pressure levels. Data may be reported at either equally or unequally spaced depth or pressure intervals. A text record is available for comments.
Date received: 19831129
Start date: 19810223
End date: 19830430
Seanames: Gulf of Alaska
West boundary: -140.966667
East boundary: -137.997222
North boundary: 59.766667
South boundary: 58.1
Observation types: physical, profile, visual estimate
Instrument types: CTD, meteorological sensor, Secchi disk, transmissometer
Datatypes: AIR TEMPERATURE - DRY BULB, AIR TEMPERATURE - WET BULB, BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, cloud amount/frequency, cloud type, CONDUCTIVITY, HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE, SALINITY, SEA STATE, SIGMA-T, VISIBILITY, water depth, WATER TEMPERATURE, WEATHER, WIND DIRECTION, WIND SPEED
Submitter: Gunn, John T.
Submitting institution: Science Applications International Corporation - Bellevue, WA
Collecting institutions: Science Applications International Corporation - Bellevue, WA, US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Contributing projects: OCSEAP, SBCCMFS
Platforms: Surveyor (31SU), SWAN (31SW)
Number of observations:
Supplementary information: Note: Metadata for this accession were extracted from a legacy database maintained by the U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). The design of the database did not exactly reflect the FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM).

Principal Investigator (PI) and organization contact information accurately represents all available information from the legacy database at the time that this description was created. However, proper attribution of a PI to a specific institution or the role (submitting or collecting) taken by an institution may not be correct due to inexact mapping between fields in the legacy database and the CSDGM. Due to this uncertainty, the contact information was initially recorded in the Supplemental Information element of the CSDGM description.

To develop more accurate metadata, NCEI reviews metadata for all accessions on an ongoing basis.

Points of contact for this dataset include:
Contact info:
Agency: US DOC; NOAA; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY; PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY
PI: N/A
Address:
address: 7600 SAND POINT WAY NE, BLDG 32
city: SEATTLE
state: WA
postal: 98115-0070
country: UNITED STATES
Contact info:
Agency: SCIENCE APPLICATIONS, INC. - BELLEVUE WA
PI: 304
Address:
address: 13400 B NORTHRUP WAY, SUITE 36
city: BELLEVUE
state: WA
postal: 98005
country: UNITED STATES

In this accession, NCEI has archived multiple versions of these data. The latest (and best) version of these data has the largest version number.
Availability date: 19831129
Metadata version: 14
Keydate: 2002-11-19 19:40:22+00
Editdate: 2024-11-25 13:32:19+00