Shallow CTD profiles collected from NOAA Ship Hi'ialakai, NOAA Ship Townsend Cromwell and NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette, near tropical pacific islands, atolls and shoals of the NE Pacific from 2000 to 2010 (NCEI Accession 0039382)

The Coral Reef Ecosystem Division of the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, part of the National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), conducted 4911 shallow CTD profiling casts at 45 Pacific islands, atolls and banks during 39 research cruises on NOAA Ship Hi'ialakai, NOAA Ship Townsend Cromwell, and NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette in the years 2000 to 2010.

Shallow Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) casts are vertical profiles (max 30 meter depth, downcast only) of temperature, conductivity and pressure. Data are collected at select nearshore locations, both around islands or banks and within lagoons. Auxiliary sensors are sometimes used to measure additional oceanographic parameters such as fluorometry, beam transmission and dissolved oxygen.

NOTE: In all data prior to 2008, the pre-cast CTD equilibration period at the surface was not removed prior to data processing. Depth bins below 3 meters are unlikely to be affected. The field information associated with this data has also come under review and some errors have been found. This data is being actively curated and an update will be provided upon completion.

Tags: agrihan, agrihan island, agrihan island (18n145e0002), aguihan, aguihan island (aguijan) (14n145e0006), aguihan island reefs, aguijan (goat is.), alamagan, alamagan island, alamagan island (17n145e0002), american samoa, anatahan, anatahan island, anatahan island (16n145e0001), asuncion island, asuncion island (19n145e0001), attenuation/transmission, bacteria, baker island, baker island (00n176w0001), biosphere, bleaching, central pacific ocean, chlorophyll, chlorophylls, coastal processes, commonwealth of the northern mariana islands, conductivity, conductivity temperature depth (ctd) profile, coral diseases, coral reef ecosystem division (cred), coral reefs, corals, country/territory, density, dissolved gases, dissolved oxygen sensor, downwelling, earth science, farallon de pajaros, farallon de pajaros (20n144e0001), fluorescence, fluorometer, french frigate shoals, french frigate shoals (24n166w0001), gardner pinnacle, gardner pinnacles (25n168w0001), guam, guam (13n144e0000), guguan, guguan island, guguan island (17n145e0001), ha1007, ha1008, hawai'i (big island), hawaii, hawaii island, hawaii island (19n155w0003), hawaiian islands, hi0401, hi0501, hi0505, hi0601, hi0602, hi0604, hi0610, hi0611, hi0701, hi0702, hi0703, hi0801, hi0802, hi0803, hi0809, hi0902, hi0903, hi1001_legi, hi1001_legii, hi1001_legiii, honolulu, howland island, howland island (00s176w0001), in situ biological, in situ chemical, in situ physical, inorganic matter, jarvis island, jarvis island (00s160w0001), johnston atoll, johnston atoll (16n169w0001), kaua'i, kauai, kauai island, kauai island (22n159w0001), kaula island (21n160w0003), kingman reef, kingman reef (06n162w0001), kure atoll, kure atoll (28n178w0001), lana'i, lanai island, lanai island (20n156w0002), laysan island, laysan island (25n171w0001), line islands, lisianski island, lisianski island (25n173w0001), main hawaiian islands, manu'a group, mariana islands, maro reef, maro reef (25n170w0001), maug, maug island, maug island (20n145e0001), maui, maui - molokini, maui island, maui island (20n156w0004), microbiota, midway atoll, midway atoll (28n177w0001), molokai, molokai island, molokai island (21n157w0001), molokini island, molokini islet (20n156w0003), necker island, necker island (23n164w0001), niihau, niihau - kaula rock, niihau island, niihau island (21n160w0001), noaa pacific islands fisheries science center, northern mariana islands, northwestern hawaiian islands, northwestern hawaiian islands (papahanaumokuakea marine national monument), numeric data sets, oahu, oahu (21n157w0003), oahu island, ocean basin, ocean chemistry, ocean circulation, ocean mixed layer, ocean optics, ocean pressure, ocean temperature, oceanographic, oceanography, oceans, oes0306, oes0307, oes0401, oes0402, oes0404, oes0502, oes0511, oes0512, oes0513, oes0810, ofu and olosega islands, ofu island (14s169w0013), organic matter, oxygen, pacific ocean, pacific remote island areas, pagan, pagan island, pagan island (18n145e0001), palmyra atoll, palmyra atoll (05n162w0001), particulate matter, pearl and hermes atoll, pearl and hermes reef (27n176w0001), phytoplankton, pigments, plankton, profile, reef assessment and monitoring program (ramp), reef monitoring and assessment, rose atoll, rose atoll (14s168w0001), rota, rota island, rota island ( luta ) (14n145e0007), saipan, saipan island, saipan island (15n145e0002), salinity, salinity/density, sarigan, sarigan island, sarigan island (16n145e0003), sea level pressure, stingray shoals, stingray shoals (20n142e0001), swains atoll (11s171w0001), swains island, ta'u, ta'u island (14s169w0012), tc0001, tc0011, tc0101, tc0201_legi, tc0201_legii, tc0201_legiii, tc0207, thermocline, tinian, tinian island (14n145e0005), tinian island reefs, transmissometer, turbidity, tutuila, tutuila island (14s170w0016), united states of america, upwelling, usa minor outlying islands, wake atoll, wake atoll (19n167e0001), water temperature, western pacific ocean, zoology, zooplankton
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce