39620 water_sal_temp_den_1981_2005 Data Set Published / External 37203 SBNMS_Assess_Water_Strat Project Completed 2005 This table contains water salinity, temperature and sigma t (density) data from 1981 to 2005 binned at 10 meter depth intervals (from 300 meters up to 0 meters) for the Gulf of Maine. It was acquired from the Canadian Fisheries and Oceans Hydrographic database, which covers an area defined by 35 deg - 80 deg N and 42 deg - 100 deg W, and contains over 500,000 temperature-salinity profiles for the Northwest Atlantic from 1910 to the present. The data comes from a variety of sources including hydrographic bottles, CTD casts (either up or down casts), spatially and temporally averaged Batfish tows, and expendable, digital or mechanical bathythermographs. Near real-time data in the form of IGOSS Bathy or Tesac messages are also included. Updates are made monthly. This data was downloaded to calculate seasonal water stratification in the Gulf of Maine, in order to support a biogeographic assessment of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. 678 Theme ISO 19115 Topic Category oceans Theme NOS Data Explorer Topic Category Environmental Monitoring Theme NOS Data Explorer Topic Category Tides/Currents Theme water column profile Theme water density Theme water salinity Theme water temperature Temporal 1981-2005 Spatial Gulf of Maine Spatial Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science Silver Spring MD Data Set Monthly Table (digital) These data were prepared by an agency of the United States Government. 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Bedford Institute of Oceanography and the Canadian Fisheries and Oceans Hydrographic (Climate) database: http://www.bio.gc.ca/science/data-donnees/base/index-eng.php. 41475 Water_Salinity_Temp_Density_1981_2005 Published / External Completed Water column profile data | Description Source: NOAA Converted from FGDC using 'fgdc_to_inport_xml_entity.pl' script. 1 OBJECTID Unknown No No Active Internal feature number. | Description Source: ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. 2 Area_Name Unknown No No Active Polygon area name (includes Scotian Shelf and Gulf of Maine) | Description Source: NOAA Polygon area name (includes Scotian Shelf and Gulf of Maine) 3 Depth NUMBER No No Active Depth (in meters) | Description Source: NOAA meters 0 - 300 4 Pressure NUMBER No No Active Pressure (in decibels--db) | Description Source: NOAA decibels 0 - 305 5 Year VARCHAR No No Active Year of measurement | Description Source: NOAA Year: Year of measurement | 6 Month VARCHAR No No Active Month of measurement | Description Source: NOAA Month: Month of measurement | 7 Day VARCHAR No No Active Day of measurement | Description Source: NOAA Day: Day of measurement | 8 Latitude VARCHAR No No Active Latitude (in decimal degrees) | Description Source: NOAA Latitude: Latitude (in decimal degrees) of measurement | 9 Longitude VARCHAR No No Active Longitude (in decimal degrees) | Description Source: NOAA Longitude: Longitude (in decimal degrees) of measurement | 10 Temperature NUMBER No No Active Temperature (in Celsius--C) | Description Source: NOAA celsuis -1.600 - 28.670 11 Salinity NUMBER No No Active Salinity (in practical salinity units--psu) | Description Source: NOAA practical salinity units 27.470 - 36.710 12 SigmaT NUMBER No No Active Sigma t (also known as kilograms per meter cubed) | Description Source: NOAA kilograms per meter cubed 20.960 - 28.130 Data Steward 2005 Position NCCOS Scientific Data Coordinator NCCOS.data@noaa.gov Distributor 2005 Position NCCOS Scientific Data Coordinator NCCOS.data@noaa.gov Metadata Contact 2005 Position NCCOS Scientific Data Coordinator NCCOS.data@noaa.gov Point of Contact 2005 Position NCCOS Scientific Data Coordinator NCCOS.data@noaa.gov Principal Investigator 2005 Person Costa, Bryan bryan.costa@noaa.gov Ground Condition -72.477168 -59.441365 46.530855 36.667053 Range 1981 2005 Yes Yes 1314218 Unclassified Please contact the Stellwagen Banks NMS Research Coordinator for additional information on data access (david.wiley@noaa.gov); After acquiring a username, password and the appropriate plug-in, this data may be downloaded from Canadian Fisheries and Oceans Hydrographic (Climate) database: http://www.bio.gc.ca/science/data-donnees/base/index-eng.php. None. Acknowledgement of the Bedford Institute of Oceanography would be appreciated in products derived from these data. https://www.bio.gc.ca/science/data-donnees/base/run-courir-en.php Bedford Institute of Oceanography > Home > Science > Data and Products > Run a Database Query Dataset is hosted by Canada's Bedford Institute of Oceanography. https://www.bio.gc.ca/science/data-donnees/base/start-commencer-en.php https://ccma.nos.noaa.gov/ecosystems/sanctuaries/stellwagen_nms/ Online Resource Deprecated Link. Data can be accessed from the Wayback Machine using the following link: https://web.archive.org/web/20150909062804/http://ccma.nos.noaa.gov/ecosystems/sanctuaries/stellwagen_nms/#products 2012-01-23 Date that the source FGDC record was last modified. 2017-04-05 Converted from FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata (version FGDC-STD-001-1998) using 'fgdc_to_inport_xml.pl' script. Contact Tyler Christensen (NOS) for details. 2017-09-13 Partial upload of Spatial Info section only. Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.1.0.722 Unknown Unknown 1 Text file downloaded from Bedford Institute of Oceanography and imported into MS Access. MS Access table converted to ArcGIS 9.1 geodatabase table. 2005-12-01T00:00:00 41475 Entity gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:39620 Tyler Christensen 2017-04-05T12:53:33 Amber Batts 2025-10-21T14:41:54 2017-09-13 National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science NCCOS 1002 Public No No 2017-09-13 1 Year 2018-09-13