Monthly and annual mean seawater temperature, salinity and density from 26 tide gauge sites during 1855-1993 (NODC Accession 0000817)

• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: NOAA NCEI Environmental Data Archive 2015
• Subjects: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; 0000817; 817; SALINITY; WATER DENSITY; WATER TEMPERATURE; bucket; hydrometer; thermometer; physical; surface measurements; FIXED PLATFORM; US DOC; NOAA; NOS; Office of Coast Survey; Florida Institute of Technology; National Water Level Observation Network (NWLON); Coastal Waters of Gulf of Mexico; Coastal Waters of S. Alaska; Coastal Waters of Western U.S.; North American Coastline-North; North American Coastline-South; oceanography; Astoria, Oregon; Atlantic City, New Jersey; Baltimore, Maryland; Boston, Massachusettes; Breakwater, Deleware; Cedar Keys, Florida; Charleston, South Carolina; Continental United States coasts; Daytona Beach, Florida; Eastern United States coasts; Eastport, Maine; Galveston, Texas; Ketchikan, Alaska; Key West, Florida; Kodiak Island (Women's Bay) Alaska; La Jolla, California; Los Angeles Harbor, California; New York (The Battery), New York; Pensacola, Florida; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Port Townsend, Washington; Portland, Maine; San Francisco, California; Sandy Hook, New Jersey; Seattle, Washington; Seward, Alaska; Sitka, Alaska; USA Tide Stations; United States Alaskan coast; United States Gulf coast; Western United States coasts; Breakwater; Sandy Hook; Ketchikan; Kodiak; Alaska
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Tidal observers at primary tide gauges of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (now the NOAA National Ocean Service) routinely measured seawater temperature and density throughout most of the 20th century with select sites well before. All available records for 26 sites have been digitized, although more paper file records may still exist for others. Students at Florida Institute of Technology provided the key entry and quality control. The purpose was to study trends in sea water temperature and density in support of increasing the scientific understanding of low-frequency changes across a wide spatial domain of the coastal United States.