Creation of Glacier Bay oceanographic information products defined in protocol OC-2010.1 using legacy data covering 1993 through 2008: methods, quality levels, and exceptions
Johnson WF and Stachura MM. 2011. Creation of Glacier Bay oceanographic information products defined in protocol OC-2010.1 using legacy data covering 1993 through 2008: methods, quality levels, and exceptions. Natural Resource Data Series. NPS/SEAN/NRDS—2011/130. National Park Service, Natural Resource Program Center. Fort Collins, Colorado
The Southeast Alaska Inventory and Monitoring Network (SEAN) embarked on a project in summer 2010 to build the detailed physical oceanography information products specified in its formal monitoring protocol OC-2010.1 based on historic legacy data collected by USGS in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. The intention was to make a consistent and comparable data set covering 1993 through the present. The project completed successfully and these products are accessible at http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/units/sean/OC_Main.aspx (accessed on 29 October 2010). This paper documents the methods used to collect and process legacy data in order to create the detailed products. It explains how the required quality control levels were obtained. Exceptional data circumstances for each product are also listed. An appendix compares overall differences between original legacy values, which were compiled using less formal processes, and those constructed by the project, which adhere to the strictly structured data standards defined in protocol OC-2010.1.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Johnson, William; Stachura, Megan
- Date of Issue
- 2011-01
- Publisher
- National Park Service, Natural Resource Program Center
- Units
- GLBA , NRSS , SEAN
- Keywords
- Alaska, chlorophyll a, CTD, fluorometer, Glacier Bay, Icy Strait, Monitoring, OBS, Oceanography, Oceans, PAR, photic depth, photosynthetically available radiation, physical oceanography, Pressure, Salinity, sigma-t, Temperature, Turbidity