Observation Viewer

Month:

This interactive tool plots observational bottle data throughout the Pacific Northwest coastal waters and the Salish Sea.

Directions:

Drag a rectange on the map to select a region. Those cast locations will turn BLUE.

Click on the Time Slider to select a specific month to highlight. You can either drag the slider to a month or use the left-right arrow keys. If there are casts in the region for that month they will turn RED.

This data is just for 2017. It comes from a veriety of agencies: WA Department of Ecology, UW Washington Ocean Acidification Center cruises, NOAA West Coast Ocean Acidification cruise, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, etc. The complete reference for data sources is here .

The observations are plotted vs. depth (m) on the right. The properties are: CT = Potential Temperature (deg C), SA = Salinity (g/kg), Dissolved Oxygen, Nitrate, Dissolved Inorganic Carbon, and Total Alkalinity.