Cruise Hydrographic Data Reports

Introductions - Contains the standard procedures, tabulated data descriptions, associated ancillary projects, footnote definitions, and literature cited.

Hydrographic Data Reports - Quarterly tabulated data reports.  The 60 year dataset includes temperature, salinity, oxygen and phosphate observations. In 1961, nutrient analysis expanded to include silicate, nitrate and nitrite; in 1973, chlorophyll was added; in 2008, the nutrient analysis expanded to include ammonium.

Primary Productivity Data Reports - Quarterly Tabulated Data Reports.  These are a subset of the hydrographic data report containing only stations in which primary productivity experiments were carried out.  Includes hydrographic data along with primary productivity data.

Personnel - List of personnel per cruise, cruise dates, ports of call, ship name, and captain's name.

Macrozooplankton Biomass Report - Contains the macrozooplankton biomass, as wet displacement volume, after removal of large (>5 ml) organisms from the starboard side of a 71 cm mouth diameter paired net (bongo net) equipped with 0.505mm plankton mesh; towed obliquely from 210 meters to the surface.

Spatial Pattern Figures - Contains vertical (line 90 only) and horizontal (10 and 200 meters along the standard CalCOFI grid) contour plotted hydrographic data.

Bird Figures - Quartely Avifauna distribution observations over the standard CalCOFI grid.

For combined quarterly CalCOFI Data Reports in pdf, please see our CalCOFI Data Reports web page.

Microsoft Access Database

Microsoft Access Database (mirror; Microsoft Access format version 05June2013) - includes final hydrographic data from March 1949 -March 2012 (IEH data + published Data Report data).   Table and Column Definitions of the CalCOFI Database and  IEH Data Format.

CSV - 194903 to 201203 Cast and Bottle Tables as CSV (mirror; 05June2013)

XML - 194903 to 201203 Cast and Bottle XML files (mirror; 05June2013) - Cast and Bottle tables as separate XML-XSD files.

SQL - 194903 to 201203 Access to MySQL 'dump' SQL file (mirror; 05June2013)- complete web version, includes Cast, Bottle, Standard Station, Standard Depth, and metadata tables, uncompresses to over 870mb.

Newest fixes and additions:

• Fixed 20-1202 import errors in Rpt_Data Table and BtlNum & RecInd in Bottle Table for 20-1202
• Fixed DIC importation errors

• Imported DIC data from 2009-01 through 2012-03 into Bottle Table
• Imported final data from 20-1203

• Re-Imported 20-1108 and 20-1110 to fix UTC Date/Time issues
• Re-Imported 20-1202 to fix UTC Date/Time issues and Prodo lumex problems

• Added description for Julian date into Categories table
• Added captain, cruise date data into Cruises table, 5408-1203

• CalCOFI 1110NH final hydrographic data imported into database
• CalCOFI 1202NH final hydrographic data imported into database

• CalCOFI 1104NH final hydrographic data imported into database
• CalCOFI 1108NH final hydrographic data imported into database

• Missing O2 saturation in hydrographic data added
• Missing decimal (tenth) value in O2 ml/L added

• CalCOFI 1011NH final hydrographic data imported into database
• CalCOFI 1101NH final hydrographic data imported into database
• Updated the Units Table

03 Jan 2011

• CalCOFI 1008NH final hydrographic data imported into database
• CalCOFI 1009SH (10 sta Shimada shakedown cruise; Line 93.3) final hydrographic data imported into database
• NODC ship code corrections applied to ship table, ship code column, & Cruise_ID; refer to 'work done' table for specifics.

• Fixed ship codes: David Phillip Dolphin changed from 31DP to 33DP; Alejandro de Humboldt changed from 65AH to 57VA; Wecoma changed from Westwind, 31WE to 32WC; Sproul changed from 31QU to 32QU.
• Fixed same ship codes in Cruise_ID field and a few others parsed incorrectly or misspelled.

1 Sept 2010

• Fixed Date issue on 200104.  All dates were -1 day off
• Added missing stations 80.0 100.0 and 90.0 100.0 to 200911
• Added finalized data from cruises 201001 and 201004
  

23 Mar 2010

• Added content to Cruise_ID column: YYYY-MM-DD-Project Code-Ship Code
• Changed ShipName to Ship_Name in Cast table to match the 0-Ships table and establish a relational link
• Changed the Ship_Code to 4 characters only; UNOLS 2 digit country code + 2 char ship code
• Fixed 191001 glitch to 201001 in preliminary database

• Added Cruise_ID, YYYY-MM-DD-ProjectCode-ShipCode, column to cast table
• Changed the Ship_Code column which has historically been Country Code + Institution Code + Ship Code to Country Code + Ship Code because Institution is missing in most of the IEH archives.
• Revised the Ship Table: original two char ShipCode is now Ship, ShipCode is new standard country code+ship code
• Added 0911 final hydrographic data to the database

17 Dec 2009

• Salinity decimal accuracy set to 3 sig figs
• Sigma-theta decimal accuracy set to 3 sig figs
  
• Cast_ID Julian Day, Time, Data_Type corrected on several casts
  
• Depth_ID corrected to match Cast_ID corrections
  
• Prodo_Cast table - removed Cast_ID, not needed since Cast_Cnt relation links Cast table Cast_ID

07 Dec 2009

• Cruise 198107 changed to 198108 as reported by NMFS ichthyoplankton database
• Cruise 199007 changed to 199008 as reported by NMFS ichthyoplankton database
• Shipcode edit; removed two spaces between country code and ship code

18 November 2009

• Decimal Latitude and Longitude decimal values recalculated to 5 decimal places from Lat_Deg+(Lat_Min/60) and Lon_Deg+(Lon_Min/60).
• Updated online versions of database & csvs with recalculated lat & lon columns
• Added xml and mysql dump download links.

21 October 2009

• Cast_ID column in the Cast Table has been synchronized with the Ship_Code column from the Cast Table.  Depth_ID column in the Bottle table has been synchronized with the Ship_Code column from the Cast Table.
  

14 May 2009

• Correction were made to several 0707 bottle data records after comparison plots with CTD profiles identified flyer
  

1 Jan 2008

• CalCOFI Data Reports and IEH ascii files include data above line 76.7 when collected (usually during the winter and spring CalCOFIs)

8 Sep 2006

• Cruz_Sta value does not include Ship Code. Current format is CCYYMMLLLLSSSS where CC is century (19 or 20); YYMM is the usual year-month cruise designation (ex 0602); LLLL is Line; SSSS is Sta. Line & Sta format include the "tenths" value ie Lines are not rounded: line 93 is reported as 93.3, line 87 is 86.7. Santa Barbara Basin is 81.8 46.9, not 82 47. These changes were necessary to distinguish SCCOOS stations from standard stations. This change is reflected in the 0602 IEH file. Please note that pre-2008 IEH data does not include data collected above line 76.7. This allows data collected on different ships occupying the same station to link. Some older cruises performed the hydrographic work and biological work on separate ships.

• Order_Occ column added to Cast table. This will be backfilled from the zooplankton database since IEH data does not include this value until 2000.

20 Jan 2006

• Added a standard station field to the Station_ID table. ST in the Stnd_Sta column flags the current 66 quarterly-sampled stations.
• Fixed Cast_Data Table: Cruz_Num & Int_Chl errors fixed. Parsing error combined the fields for several 80s cruises
• Metafile Description - definitions and format
  

Comments - CalCOFI 1949 - 2009 IEH-formatted ascii files are sorted by cruise, parsed into two comma-delimited ascii files (cast information; bottle data), combined with CalCOFI Data Report calculated values, then imported into Access 2003. Some common corrections are required: the cruise YYMM designation such as 9801 are extracted from the IEH header. If that field is empty (common in early IEHs) the cruise designation (variable Cruz_Nam) is generated from Year and Month automatically. Any query that uses the cruise designation (Cruz_Nam) may not pull all data collected from early cruises so use date and ship instead.  Another note - Gulf of California station latitudes & longitudes generate negative Line.Sta numbers using the CalCOFI Line.Sta from Lat.Lon algorithm.  These data are not excluded so the Line & Sta fields are not always numeric but text since a “G” designation is reported in many IEHs for those stations.

CSV's

 
For users who need comma-separated value files of CalCOFI hydrographic bottle data and station information (both are used to create the Access database).  Header information can be found on the database definitions webpage.

CSV - 194903 to 201203 Cast and Bottle Tables as CSV (mirror; 5June2013).   

• Hydrographic Bottle data can be found in the Bottle.csv.
• Station information and primary productivity data can be found in the cast.csv.

Newest fixes and additions:

• Fixed 20-1202 import errors in Rpt_Data Table and BtlNum & RecInd in Bottle Table for 20-1202
• Fixed DIC importation errors

• Imported DIC data from 2009-01 through 2012-03 into Bottle Table
• Imported final data from 20-1203

• Re-Imported 20-1108 and 20-1110 to fix UTC Date/Time issues
• Re-Imported 20-1202 to fix UTC Date/Time issues and Prodo lumex problems

Ascii IEH's

For users who need IEH's which contain CalCOFI hydrographic bottle and station information in ascii format.  These are in CalCOFI 128-column data archive format and are available in 2 versions:

• Files with observed data only (labeled YYMMarch.ieh)
• Files with observed data and interpolated standard levels (labeled YYMMt.ieh)