This is a collection of bottom temperature time series on the NE Continental Shelf collected by the Commerical Fisheries Research Foundation fishers beginning in 2014. As of 2021, approximately 20 captains have been involved.

cdm_data_type = Point
VARIABLES:
line_num
time (UTC Date, seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z)
vessel
latitude (Degrees Latitude, degrees_north)
longitude (Degrees Longitude, degrees_east)
session_id
serial_num
sea_water_temperature (degree_C)
yday
depth (m)


Drifter Tracks from the NE US Shelf and beyond

This is a collection of drifter tracks collected by various organizations covering the US Northeast shelf and beyond.

cdm_data_type = Trajectory
VARIABLES:
id
time (UTC Date, seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z)
latitude (Degrees Latitude, degrees_north)
longitude (Degrees Longitude, degrees_east)
depth (m)
sea_water_temperature (degree_C)


This is a collection of hourly bottom temperatures (~0.2 degC accuracy) from lobster traps at dozens of fixed locations off the Northeast US beginning in 2001.

cdm_data_type = Point
VARIABLES:
time (UTC Date, seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z)
latitude (Degrees Latitude, degrees_north)
longitude (Degrees Longitude, degrees_east)
depth (m)
sea_water_temperature (degree_C)


Trawler-collected bottom temperatures from the Northeast US Shelf

These are ~one mile binned-averaged hourly ocean bottom temperatures obtained with thermistors attached to commercial fishing trawls. The Vemco Minilog instrument used in most cases is accurate to 0.2 degC. Since is not reporting fast enough (90 seconds) to resolve the vertical structure, only the bottom values are reported here.

cdm_data_type = Point
VARIABLES:
time (UTC Date, seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z)
latitude (Degrees Latitude, degrees_north)
longitude (Degrees Longitude, degrees_east)
number_of_obs
temperature (Sea Water Temperature, degree_C)
min_temperature (Sea Water Temperature, degree_C)
max_temperature (Sea Water Temperature, degree_C)
number_of_depth_obs
depth (m)
min_depth (meters)
max_depth (meters)
stddev_depth (meters)


Turtle-collected water column temperatures from the NE US Shelf

These include approximately 10 points with each loggerhead turtle  dive.

cdm_data_type = Point
VARIABLES:
count
time (seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z)
latitude (Degrees Latitude, degrees_north)
longitude (Degrees Longitude, degrees_east)
temperature (Sea Water Temperature, degree_C)
depth (m)