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Title: Water temperature, salinity, and other data from LITTLE DIPPER in Gulf of Alaska from 1995-03-01 to 1998-02-06 (NCEI Accession 9800027)
Abstract: The Institute of Marine Science, University of Alaska is responsible for this data collected on R/V Little Dipper cruises LO37-LO56 from 03/01/95 to 02/06/98 by Dr. Tom Royer of the Institute of Marine Science. The data was collected for the "Oceanographic Time Series in North Pacific" project funded by NOAA, Grant No. NA90AA-D-AC805. There was a total of 2 stations in the Resurrection Bay and Gulf of Alaska area. Data has been processed to the NODC standard High-Resolution STD/CTD Data (F022) format.

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: 19990205
Start date: 19950301
End date: 19980206
Seanames: Gulf of Alaska
West boundary: -149.47
East boundary: -149.36
North boundary: 60.03
South boundary: 59.84
Observation types: physical, profile
Instrument types: CTD, meteorological sensor
Datatypes: AIR TEMPERATURE - DRY BULB, AIR TEMPERATURE - WET BULB, BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, SALINITY, SIGMA-T, water depth, WATER TEMPERATURE, WIND DIRECTION, WIND SPEED
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: 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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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: 19990205
Metadata version: 7
Keydate: 2002-11-19 19:40:22+00
Editdate: 2024-10-23 14:57:21+00