Subject: SST data
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:10:13 -1000
From: Patrick Caldwell <caldwell@hawaii.edu>
Organization: NOAA Data Center (NESDIS/NODC/NCDDC)
To: Francis Mitchell <fmitchell@nodc.noaa.gov>
CC: Russ Beard <russ.beard@noaa.gov>

Aloha Mitch,


Here's a nice set for you.  I put it under the
ftp liaison area in maulsst.tar.  Here's the
scoop....

Dr. George Maul of the Florida Institute of Technology provided
a dataset of monthly and annual mean seawater temperature, salinity, and
density data from 26 USA tide gauge sites during 1855-1993.
Tidal observers at primary tide gauges of the United States
Coast and Geodetic Survey (now the NOAA National Ocean
Service) routinely measured seawater temperature and
density throughout most of the 20th century with select
sites well before.  All available records for 26 sites
have been digitized, although more paper file records
may still exist for others.  Students at Florida Institute
of Technology provided the key entry and quality control.
The purpose was to study trends in sea water temperature and density
in support of increasing the scientific understanding
of low-frequency changes across a wide spatial
domain of the coastal United States.  Data received as MS Excel
spreadsheets.

Take care, please pass on the ACCN number when ready.

Aloha, Pat

--
Mr. Patrick Caldwell
NOAA Data Center Hawaii Liaison (NESDIS/NODC/NCDDC)
Dept. of Oceanography, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 USA// 808-956-4105