Table of Contents

• Coverage
• Dataset Description
  • Methods & Sampling
  • Data Processing Description
• Data Files
• Parameters
• Instruments
• Deployments
• Project Information
• Program Information
• Funding

Northeast Pacific CTD Data
Contact: Jane Fleischbein

More information is available in the following data reports (PDF's):
1997-1998 Report - Cruises W9707A, W9709B, W9711C, W9801B, W9804A, AR9806, AR9807, W9808A, W9809A, and W9811A.
1999-2000 Report - Cruises W9902A, W9904B, W9907A, W9909C, W9911A, W0002A, W0004B, W0007A, and W0009A.
2001 Report - Cruises W0101B, W0101C, W0103A, W0103B, W0107A, W0109A, W0110A, and W0111B.
2002-2003 Report - Cruises W0202A, W0204A, W0207A, AT7-21, W0212A, W0302A, W0304A, NH0307A, and W0309B.
2004 Report - Cruises W0408D and W0409A.

Refer to the data reports above and to the CCS LTOP website.

Parameter names were changed to conform to BCO-DMO convention; BCO-DMO corrected the date and month values for stations 24 and 25 of the W9711C cruise (month and day were reversed). 05/29/12.

Program in a Nutshell

Goal: To understand the effects of climate variability and climate change on the distribution, abundance and production of marine animals (including commercially important living marine resources) in the eastern North Pacific. To embody this understanding in diagnostic and prognostic ecosystem models, capable of capturing the ecosystem response to major climatic fluctuations.

Approach: To study the effects of past and present climate variability on the population ecology and population dynamics of marine biota and living marine resources, and to use this information as a proxy for how the ecosystems of the eastern North Pacific may respond to future global climate change. The strong temporal variability in the physical and biological signals of the NEP will be used to examine the biophysical mechanisms through which zooplankton and salmon populations respond to physical forcing and biological interactions in the coastal regions of the two gyres. Annual and interannual variability will be studied directly through long-term observations and detailed process studies; variability at longer time scales will be examined through retrospective analysis of directly measured and proxy data. Coupled biophysical models of the ecosystems of these regions will be developed and tested using the process studies and data collected from the long-term observation programs, then further tested and improved by hindcasting selected retrospective data series.

U.S. GLOBEC (GLOBal ocean ECosystems dynamics) is a research program organized by oceanographers and fisheries scientists to address the question of how global climate change may affect the abundance and production of animals in the sea.

The U.S. GLOBEC Program currently had major research efforts underway in the Georges Bank / Northwest Atlantic Region, and the Northeast Pacific (with components in the California Current and in the Coastal Gulf of Alaska). U.S. GLOBEC was a major contributor to International GLOBEC efforts in the Southern Ocean and Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP).