BCSOP_daily eng UTF8 dataset service CIOOS Data Manager Canadian Integrated Ocean Observing System 19999999999 6375 Edzell Castle Circle, 2nd Floor, Steele Ocean Sciences Building Halifax NS B3H 4J1 CA info@cioos.ca pointOfContact 2026-08-17 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata Part 2 Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) 3 column row temporal BC Lightstation data 2026-08-17 creation erddap.cioos.ca BCSOP_daily Institute of Ocean Sciences, 9860 West Saanich Road, Sidney, B.C., Canada Institute of Ocean Sciences https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/719955f2-bf8e-44f7-bc26-6bd623e82884 information web browser Background Information Background information from the source information originator 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. Institute of Ocean Sciences, 9860 West Saanich Road, Sidney, B.C., Canada Institute of Ocean Sciences https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/719955f2-bf8e-44f7-bc26-6bd623e82884 information web browser Background Information Background information from the source information pointOfContact salinity seaSurfaceSalinity seaSurfaceTemperature temperature theme Institute of Ocean Sciences project latitude longitude time sea_water_temperature sea_water_practical_salinity theme CF Standard Name Table v79 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 largerWorkCitation project Unidata Common Data Model TimeSeries largerWorkCitation project eng geoscientificInformation 1 -133.0594 -123.0458 48.2979 54.5684 seconds 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z 2019-11-30T00:00:00Z BC Lightstation data 2026-08-17 creation Institute of Ocean Sciences, 9860 West Saanich Road, Sidney, B.C., Canada Institute of Ocean Sciences https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/719955f2-bf8e-44f7-bc26-6bd623e82884 information web browser Background Information Background information from the source information originator 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. ERDDAP tabledap 1 -133.0594 -123.0458 48.2979 54.5684 seconds 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z 2019-11-30T00:00:00Z tight ERDDAPtabledapDatasetQueryAndAccess https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_daily ERDDAP:tabledap ERDDAP-tabledap ERDDAP's tabledap service (a flavor of OPeNDAP) for tabular (sequence) data. Add different extensions (e.g., .html, .graph, .das, .dds) to the base URL for different purposes. download BC Lightstation data 2026-08-17 creation Institute of Ocean Sciences, 9860 West Saanich Road, Sidney, B.C., Canada Institute of Ocean Sciences https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/719955f2-bf8e-44f7-bc26-6bd623e82884 information web browser Background Information Background information from the source information originator 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. OPeNDAP 1 -133.0594 -123.0458 48.2979 54.5684 seconds 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z 2019-11-30T00:00:00Z tight OPeNDAPDatasetQueryAndAccess https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_daily OPeNDAP:OPeNDAP OPeNDAP An OPeNDAP service for tabular (sequence) data. Add different extensions (e.g., .html, .das, .dds) to the base URL for different purposes. download BC Lightstation data 2026-08-17 creation Institute of Ocean Sciences, 9860 West Saanich Road, Sidney, B.C., Canada Institute of Ocean Sciences https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/719955f2-bf8e-44f7-bc26-6bd623e82884 information web browser Background Information Background information from the source information originator 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. ERDDAP Subset 1 -133.0594 -123.0458 48.2979 54.5684 seconds 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z 2019-11-30T00:00:00Z tight ERDDAP_Subset https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_daily.subset search Subset Web page to facilitate selecting subsets of the dataset download physicalMeasurement profile String profile status String status country String country mission_id String mission_id scientist String scientist agency String agency time double Time TEMPTC01 float Sea Water Temperature PSALPR01 float Sea Water Practical Salinity CIOOS Data Manager Canadian Integrated Ocean Observing System 19999999999 6375 Edzell Castle Circle, 2nd Floor, Steele Ocean Sciences Building Halifax NS B3H 4J1 CA info@cioos.ca distributor OPeNDAP DAP/2.0 https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_daily.html order Data Subset Form ERDDAP's version of the OPeNDAP .html web page for this dataset. Specify a subset of the dataset and download the data via OPeNDAP or in many different file types. download https://erddap.cioos.ca/erddap/tabledap/BCSOP_daily.graph order Make-A-Graph Form ERDDAP's Make-A-Graph .html web page for this dataset. Create an image with a map or graph of a subset of the data. mapDigital This record was created from dataset metadata by ERDDAP Version 2.28.1