Dataset: UW FHL Temperature & Salinity

Name: UW FHL Temperature & Salinity data taken at Friday Harbor, WA between between January 1, 2010 and January 1, 2016
Published: 2019-08-20
Keywords: salinity, SST, temperature, Friday Harbor, Salish Sea, Puget Sound, oceans

Cite This Dataset

DOI:10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.775732.1

Spatial Extent: N:48.5461 E:-123.0128 S:48.5461 W:-123.0128

Temporal Extent: 2010-01-01 - 2016-01-01

Project:

Effects of Ocean Acidification on Coastal Organisms: An Ecomaterials Perspective (OA - Ecomaterials Perspective)

Program:

Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability NSF-Wide Investment (SEES): Ocean Acidification (formerly CRI-OA) (SEES-OA)

Principal Investigator:

Emily Carrington (University of Washington, UW)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Karen Soenen (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version:

Version Date:

2019-08-20

Restricted:

Validated:

Current State:

Preliminary and in progress

UW FHL Temperature & Salinity data taken at Friday Harbor, WA between between January 1, 2010 and January 1, 2016

Abstract:

Hourly seawater temperature and salinity values taken by an SBE 37 MicroCAT at UW FHL (University of Washington, Friday Harbor Laboratories) in Friday Harbor between January 1, 2010 and January 1, 2016.

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Archival Copy

Version Date	Archive	Persistent Identifier	Date Assigned
2019-08-20	Marine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library (MBLWHOI DLA)	10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.775732.1	2019-09-04

Description

Portions of the data were published in:

Murray et al., 2015 (Figure 1)
Bashevkin et al., 2016 (Figure 1B)

Methods & Sampling

Seawater salinity and temperature were measured continuously each hour at 1.7 m depth at Cantilever Point, Friday Harbor Laboratories (FHL), Washington, USA (48.546034,-123.007539) using a SBE 37SM (MicroCAT,SEA-Bird Electronics, Bellevue WA)

Data were collected hourly. Data gaps are due to problems associated with deployment and data transfer.

Data Processing Description

BCO-DMO processing notes:

Added sampling location to the dataset (columns latitude and longitude)
Added ISO_DateTime_UTC column to the dataset

Data Files

File
temp_sal.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 3.63 MB) MD5:d1e389e93b84737cb972f22b37e5f5da Primary data file for dataset ID 775732

More Information about this dataset

Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1041213

Deployments

None available yet

Instruments

CTD Sea-Bird MicroCAT 37

Supplied Name: SBE 37-SM Microcat (Sea-Bird Electronics, Bellevue WA)

Supplied Description:

SBE 37-SM Microcat (Sea-Bird Electronics, Bellevue WA)

Instrument Type

Generic Name: CTD Sea-Bird MicroCAT 37

Acronym: CTD MicroCAT 37

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/350/

Generic Description:

The Sea-Bird MicroCAT CTD unit is a high-accuracy conductivity and temperature recorder based on the Sea-Bird SBE 37 MicroCAT series of products. It can be configured with optional pressure sensor, internal batteries, memory, built-in Inductive Modem, integral Pump, and/or SBE-43 Integrated Dissolved Oxygen sensor. Constructed of titanium and other non-corroding materials for long life with minimal maintenance, the MicroCAT is designed for long duration on moorings.

In a typical mooring, a modem module housed in the buoy communicates with underwater instruments and is interfaced to a computer or data logger via serial port. The computer or data logger is programmed to poll each instrument on the mooring for its data, and send the data to a telemetry transmitter (satellite link, cell phone, RF modem, etc.). The MicroCAT saves data in memory for upload after recovery, providing a data backup if real-time telemetry is interrupted.

Parameters

Date and time formats are described in python strftime() syntax.

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
Date	Date and Time in local time: Pacific Standard Time UTC-8:00)	unitless	date_local
Temperature	Seawater temperature	degrees Celcius (C)	temperature
Salinity	Seawater salinity	PSU	no_bcodmo_term
ISO_DateTime_UTC	ISO UTC Date and Time in format YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ	unitless	ISO_DateTime_UTC
Latitude	Latitude - south is negative	decimal degrees	lat
Longitude	Longitude - west is negative	decimal degrees	lon