Physical Oceanography Off the Central California Coast during March and May-June,1994: A Summary of CTD Data from Larval and Pelagic Juvenile Rockfish Surveys

摘要

Hydrographic conditions during a 9-day period in March 1994 in the area boundedby Cypress Pt. (36 degrees 35'N) and Bodega Bay (38 degrees 20'N), California, from the coast to approximately 240 km offshore are summarized in a series of horizontal maps and vertical transects. In addition, hydrographic conditions, during three periods of approximately ten days each from mid-May through mid-June 1994 in the coastal ocean bounded by Cypress Pt. (36 degrees 35'N) and Pt. Reyes, California (38 degrees 10'N), and from the coast to about 75 km offshore, are also summarized. A total of 71 conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) casts were obtained during the David Starr Jordan cruise DSJ9403, while 235 standard casts were taken during cruise DSJ99406 over the course of three consecutive sweeps of the region. Data products contained in this report include (1) a master list of CTD stations during each cruise; (2) surface meteorological time series from the region's four National Data Buoy Center meteorological buoys; (3) horizontal maps of sea surface temperatures from advanced very high resolution radiometer (AVHRR) satellite images; (4) acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) data; (5) horizontal maps of temperature, salinity, and density at depths of 2, 10, 30, 100, 200, 300, and 500 m; (6) temperature, salinity and density along four cross-shelf vertical transects; and (7) dynamic height topography (0/500 m and 200/500 m) in the survey region.