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CIOOS Pacific ERDDAP
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| Dataset Title: | BC Lightstation data
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| Institution: | Institute of Ocean Sciences (Dataset ID: BCSOP_monthly) |
| Information: | Summary
| License
| ISO 19115
| Metadata
| Background
| Subset
| Files
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Attributes {
s {
profile {
String cf_role "timeseries_id";
}
status {
}
country {
}
mission_id {
}
scientist {
}
agency {
}
latitude {
String _CoordinateAxisType "Lat";
Float32 actual_range 48.298, 54.255;
String axis "Y";
Float64 colorBarMaximum 90.0;
Float64 colorBarMinimum -90.0;
Float64 FillValue NaN;
String ioos_category "Location";
String long_name "Latitude";
String standard_name "latitude";
String units "degrees_north";
}
longitude {
String _CoordinateAxisType "Lon";
Float32 actual_range -133.059, -122.8;
String axis "X";
Float64 colorBarMaximum 180.0;
Float64 colorBarMinimum -180.0;
Float64 FillValue NaN;
String ioos_category "Location";
String long_name "Longitude";
String standard_name "longitude";
String units "degrees_east";
}
time {
String _CoordinateAxisType "Time";
Float64 actual_range -1.5450912e+9, 1.576368e+9;
String axis "T";
Float64 FillValue NaN;
String ioos_category "Time";
String long_name "Time";
String standard_name "time";
String time_origin "01-JAN-1970 00:00:00";
String units "seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z";
}
TEMPTC01 {
Float32 actual_range 3.38, 21.33;
Float64 colorBarMaximum 32.0;
Float64 colorBarMinimum 0.0;
Float64 FillValue NaN;
String long_name "Sea Water Temperature";
String standard_name "sea_water_temperature";
String units "degC";
}
PSALPR01 {
Float32 actual_range 17.12, 34.64;
Float64 colorBarMaximum 37.0;
Float64 colorBarMinimum 20.0;
Float64 FillValue NaN;
String long_name "Sea Water Practical Salinity";
String standard_name "sea_water_practical_salinity";
String units "PSS-78";
}
}
NC_GLOBAL {
String _NCProperties "version=2,netcdf=4.6.3,hdf5=1.10.4";
String cdm_data_type "TimeSeries";
String cdm_timeseries_variables "profile";
String contact_email "DFO.PAC.SCI.IOSData-DonneesISO.SCI.PAC.MPO@dfo-mpo.gc.ca";
String contact_name "Institute of Oceans Sciences";
String Conventions "COARDS, CF-1.6, ACDD-1.3";
String creator_name "Institute of Ocean Sciences, 9860 West Saanich Road, Sidney, B.C., Canada";
String description "The daily sampling strategy at BC shore stations was designed long ago by Dr. John P. Tully. We have chosen not to change the strategy in the interests of a homogeneous data set. A sea water sample is collected by immersing a bucket in the seawater and measuring the temperature and salinity of the water in the bucket; sampling occurs at or near the daytime high tide. Sampling at the daytime high tide means, for example, that if an observer starts sampling one day at 6 a.m.(local time) and continues to sample at the daytime hightide then on the 2nd day the sample will be taken at about 06:50, the next day at 07:40 and so on. When the daytime high tide occurs in the late afternoon the sampling time reverts to the next morning and the cycle starts again. Since there is a diurnal signal in sea-surface temperature the sampling creates a 14-day signal as an artifact in the daily data. The monthly data are calculated by averaging the daily data of each month.";
Float64 Easternmost_Easting -122.8;
String featureType "TimeSeries";
Float64 geospatial_lat_max 54.255;
Float64 geospatial_lat_min 48.298;
String geospatial_lat_units "degrees_north";
Float64 geospatial_lon_max -122.8;
Float64 geospatial_lon_min -133.059;
String geospatial_lon_units "degrees_east";
String history
"2024-04-26T16:17:09Z (local files)
2024-04-26T16:17:09Z https://data.cioospacific.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html";
String infoUrl "https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/719955f2-bf8e-44f7-bc26-6bd623e82884";
String institution "Institute of Ocean Sciences";
String keywords "salinity, seaSurfaceSalinity, seaSurfaceTemperature, temperature";
String keywords_fra "salinité sous la surface,température sous la surface,salinité,température";
String keywords_vocabulary "GCMD Science Keywords";
String language "eng";
String license
"The data may be used and redistributed for free but is not intended
for legal use, since it may contain inaccuracies. Neither the data
Contributor, ERD, NOAA, nor the United States Government, nor any
of their employees or contractors, makes any warranty, express or
implied, including warranties of merchantability and fitness for a
particular purpose, or assumes any legal liability for the accuracy,
completeness, or usefulness, of this information.";
Float64 Northernmost_Northing 54.255;
String platform "land/onshore structure";
String platform_vocabulary "https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L06/current/";
String publisher_name "Hakai Institute";
String sourceUrl "(local files)";
Float64 Southernmost_Northing 48.298;
String standard_name_vocabulary "CF Standard Name Table v79";
String subsetVariables "agency, scientist, country, profile, status";
String summary
"\"Daily sea surface temperature and salinity observations have been carried out at several locations on the coast of British Columbia since the early part of the 20th century. Observations started at the Pacific Biological Station (Departure Bay) in 1914; 11 stations were added in the mid-1930s and several more in the 1960s. The number of stations reporting at any given time has varied as sampling has been discontinued at some stations and started or resumed at others.
Presently termed the British Columbia Shore Station Oceanographic Program (BCSOP), there are 12 participating stations where daily sea-surface temperature and salinity measurements have been collected from 1914 to present. Due to unfavourable sampling conditions, there are some gaps in the daily data.
Observations are made daily using seawater collected in a bucket lowered into the surface water at or near the daytime high tide. This sampling method was designed long ago by Dr. John P. Tully and has not been changed in the interests of a homogeneous data set. This means, for example, that if an observer starts sampling one day at 6 a.m., and continues to sample at the daytime high tide on the second day the sample will be taken at about 06:50 the next day, 07:40 the day after etc. When the daytime high-tide gets close to 6 p.m. the observer will then begin again to sample early in the morning, and the cycle continues. Since there is a day/night variation in the sea surface temperatures the daily time series will show a signal that varies with the 14-day tidal cycle. This artifact does not affect the monthly sea surface temperature data.
The monthly data are calculated by averaging the daily data of each month.\"";
String time_coverage_end "2019-12-15T00:00:00Z";
String time_coverage_start "1921-01-15T00:00:00Z";
String title "BC Lightstation data";
Float64 Westernmost_Easting -133.059;
}
}
Data Access Protocol (DAP) and its
selection constraints.
The URL specifies what you want: the dataset, a description of the graph or the subset of the data, and the file type for the response.
Tabledap request URLs must be in the form
https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/tabledap/datasetID.fileType{?query}
For example,
https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/tabledap/pmelTaoDySst.htmlTable?longitude,latitude,time,station,wmo_platform_code,T_25&time>=2015-05-23T12:00:00Z&time<=2015-05-31T12:00:00Z
Thus, the query is often a comma-separated list of desired variable names,
followed by a collection of
constraints (e.g., variable<value),
each preceded by '&' (which is interpreted as "AND").
For details, see the tabledap Documentation.