Project: Institute of Ocean Sciences
Name: Institute of Ocean Sciences, 9860 West Saanich Road, Sidney, B.C., Canada
Institution: Institute of Ocean Sciences
InfoURL: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/719955f2-bf8e-44f7-bc26-6bd623e82884
Source URL: (local files)
BC Lightstation data
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tabular digital data
Halifax, NS, CA
ERDDAP, version 2.28.1, at Canadian Integrated Ocean Observing System
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.graph
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.subset
Institute of Ocean Sciences
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.
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https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/719955f2-bf8e-44f7-bc26-6bd623e82884
19210115
20191215
ground condition
As needed
-133.059
-122.8
54.255
48.298
GCMD Science Keywords
salinity
seaSurfaceSalinity
seaSurfaceTemperature
temperature
CF Standard Name Table v79
latitude
longitude
time
sea_water_temperature
sea_water_practical_salinity
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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.
Institute of Ocean Sciences
Institute of Ocean Sciences, 9860 West Saanich Road, Sidney, B.C., Canada
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Mailing and Physical Address
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https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.graph
Web page to make a customized map or graph of the data
HTML
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Canadian Integrated Ocean Observing System
CIOOS Data Manager
Data Manager
Mailing and Physical Address
6375 Edzell Castle Circle, 2nd Floor, Steele Ocean Sciences Building
Halifax
NS
B3H 4J1
CA
19999999999
info@cioos.ca
ERDDAP, version 2.28.1: get metadata; download data; make graphs and maps.
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.
.geoJson
1
Download longitude,latitude,otherColumns data as a UTF-8 GeoJSON .json file. http://wiki.geojson.org/Main_Page
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.csvp
1
Download a ISO-8859-1 .csv file with line 1: name (units). Times are ISO 8601 strings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.parquetWMeta
1
Download as a parquet file with detailed metadata. https://parquet.apache.org/
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.tsv
1
Download a ISO-8859-1 tab-separated text table (line 1: names; line 2: units; ISO 8601 times). https://jkorpela.fi/TSV.html
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.dods
1
OPeNDAP clients use this to download the data in the DODS binary format. https://docs.opendap.org/index.php/UserGuideOPeNDAPMessages#Data_Transmission
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.iso19115
1
View the dataset's ISO 19115-2/19139 UTF-8 .xml metadata. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geospatial_metadata
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.ncCFHeader
1
View the UTF-8 header (the metadata) for the .ncCF file. https://linux.die.net/man/1/ncdump
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.ncHeader
1
View the UTF-8 header (the metadata) for the NetCDF-3 .nc file. https://linux.die.net/man/1/ncdump
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.jsonlKVP
1
View a UTF-8 JSON Lines file with Key:Value pairs (missing value = 'null'; times are ISO 8601 strings). https://jsonlines.org/
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.croissant
1
Download the dataset croissant schema. https://docs.mlcommons.org/croissant/docs/croissant-spec.html
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.tsv0
1
Download a ISO-8859-1 .tsv file without column names or units. Times are ISO 8601 strings. https://jkorpela.fi/TSV.html
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.nc
1
Download a flat, table-like, NetCDF-3 binary file with COARDS/CF/ACDD metadata. https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.csv
1
Download a ISO-8859-1 comma-separated text table (line 1: names; line 2: units; ISO 8601 times). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.dds
1
View the dataset's structure via an ISO-8859-1 OPeNDAP Dataset Descriptor Structure (DDS). https://docs.opendap.org/index.php/UserGuideOPeNDAPMessages#Dataset_Descriptor_Structure
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.csv0
1
Download a ISO-8859-1 .csv file without column names or units. Times are ISO 8601 strings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.xhtml
1
View a UTF-8 XHTML (XML) file with the data in a table. Times are ISO 8601 strings. https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.dataTable
1
A JSON file formatted for use with the Google Visualization client library (Google Charts). https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/reference#dataparam
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.das
1
View the dataset's metadata via an ISO-8859-1 OPeNDAP Dataset Attribute Structure (DAS). https://docs.opendap.org/index.php/UserGuideOPeNDAPMessages#Dataset_Attribute_Structure
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.nccsvMetadata
1
View the dataset's metadata as the top half of a 7-bit ASCII NCCSV .csv file. https://erddap.github.io/docs/user/nccsv-1.20
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.odvTxt
1
Download longitude,latitude,time,otherColumns as an ISO-8859-1 ODV Generic Spreadsheet File (.txt). https://odv.awi.de/en/documentation/
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.ncCF
1
Download a NetCDF-3 CF Discrete Sampling Geometries file (Contiguous Ragged Array). https://cfconventions.org/Data/cf-conventions/cf-conventions-1.8/cf-conventions.html#discrete-sampling-geometries
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.fgdc
1
View the dataset's UTF-8 FGDC .xml metadata. https://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standards-projects/metadata/base-metadata/index_html
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.itx
1
Download an ISO-8859-1 Igor Text File. Each response column becomes a wave. https://www.wavemetrics.net/doc/igorman/II-09%20Data%20Import%20Export.pdf
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.asc
1
View OPeNDAP-style ISO-8859-1 comma-separated text. https://docs.opendap.org/index.php/UserGuideOPeNDAPMessages#ASCII_Service
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.ncCFMAHeader
1
View the UTF-8 header (the metadata) for the .ncCFMA file. https://linux.die.net/man/1/ncdump
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.parquet
1
Download as a parquet file. Metadata contains column names ("column_names") and units ("column_units"). https://parquet.apache.org/
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.ncCFMA
1
Download a NetCDF-3 CF Discrete Sampling Geometries file (Multidimensional Array). https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/netcdf-templates
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.mat
1
Download a MATLAB binary file. https://www.mathworks.com/
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.json
1
View a table-like UTF-8 JSON file (missing value = 'null'; times are ISO 8601 strings). https://www.json.org/
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.wav
1
Download a .wav audio file. All columns must be numeric and of the same type. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.ncoJson
1
Download a UTF-8 NCO lvl=2 JSON file with COARDS/CF/ACDD metadata. https://nco.sourceforge.net/nco.html#json
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.jsonlCSV1
1
View a UTF-8 JSON Lines CSV file with column names on line 1 (mv = 'null'; times are ISO 8601 strings). https://jsonlines.org/
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.jsonlCSV
1
View a UTF-8 JSON Lines CSV file without column names (mv = 'null'; times are ISO 8601 strings). https://jsonlines.org/
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.tsvp
1
Download a ISO-8859-1 .tsv file with line 1: name (units). Times are ISO 8601 strings. https://jkorpela.fi/TSV.html
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.nccsv
1
Download a NetCDF-3-like 7-bit ASCII NCCSV .csv file with COARDS/CF/ACDD metadata. https://erddap.github.io/docs/user/nccsv-1.20
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.htmlTable
1
View a UTF-8 .html web page with the data in a table. Times are ISO 8601 strings. https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.esriCsv
1
Download a ISO_8859_1 .csv file for ESRI's ArcGIS 9.x and below (separate date and time columns). https://support.esri.com/technical-article/000012745
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.html
.transparentPng
1
View a .png image file (just the data, without axes, landmask, or legend). http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.graph
.png
1
View a standard, medium-sized .png image file with a graph or map. http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.graph
.largePdf
1
View a large .pdf image file with a graph or map. https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/about-adobe-pdf.html
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.graph
.largePng
1
View a large .png image file with a graph or map. http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.graph
.smallPdf
1
View a small .pdf image file with a graph or map. https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/about-adobe-pdf.html
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.graph
.smallPng
1
View a small .png image file with a graph or map. http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.graph
.kml
1
View a .kml file, suitable for Google Earth. https://developers.google.com/kml/
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.graph
.pdf
1
View a standard, medium-sized .pdf image file with a graph or map. https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/about-adobe-pdf.html
https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_monthly.graph
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20260817
Canadian Integrated Ocean Observing System
CIOOS Data Manager
Data Manager
Mailing and Physical Address
6375 Edzell Castle Circle, 2nd Floor, Steele Ocean Sciences Building
Halifax
NS
B3H 4J1
CA
19999999999
info@cioos.ca
Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
FGDC-STD-012-2002
universal time
None.
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.