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Title: Cloud amount/frequency, TRANSMISSIVITY and other data from ALPHA HELIX and LITTLE DIPPER in the Gulf of Alaska from 1992-01-28 to 1992-04-22 (NCEI Accession 9200146)
Abstract: The Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) and other data were collected in Gulf of Alaska. Data was collected from Ships ALPHA HELIX and LITTLE DIPPER. The data was collected over a period spanning from January 28, 1992 and April 22, 1992. Data was submitted in a diskette by Dr. Chirk Chu, Institute of Marine Science, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK. Data has been processed and is available in F022-CTD-Hi Resolution file format of NODC.

F022 High-resolution CTD data is collected from high resolution (conductivity-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 1 m. 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.
Date received: 19920709
Start date: 19920128
End date: 19920422
Seanames: Gulf of Alaska
West boundary: -149.72
East boundary: -149.36
North boundary: 60.03
South boundary: 59.84
Observation types: physical, profile
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, DISSOLVED OXYGEN, DYNAMIC DEPTH ANOMALY, HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE, NITRATE, OXYGEN, pH, phosphate, SALINITY, SEA STATE, Secchi depth, SIGMA-T, silicate, SOUND VELOCITY, TOTAL PHOSPHORUS, TRANSMISSIVITY, VISIBILITY, WATER COLOR, water depth, WATER TEMPERATURE, WAVE HEIGHT, WAVE PERIOD, WEATHER, WIND DIRECTION, WIND FORCE, WIND SPEED, ZOOPLANKTON BIOMASS
Submitter: Chu, Dr. Chirk
Submitting institution: University of Alaska Fairbanks; Institute of Marine Science
Collecting institutions: University of Alaska Fairbanks; Institute of Marine Science
Contributing projects:
Platforms: Alpha Helix (31HX), LITTLE DIPPER (32L0)
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.

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Points of contact for this data set include:
Contact info:
Agency: UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA - FAIRBANKS; INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE
PI: Chu, Dr. Chirk
Address:
address: ROOM 111 O'NEAL BUILDING
city: FAIRBANKS
state: AK
postal: 99701
country: UNITED STATES
Availability date: 19921210
Metadata version: 8
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:43:41+00
Editdate: 2023-02-15 12:35:04+00