Physical and nutrients data were collected from bottle casts in the South Pacific Ocean and other locations. Data were collected from 03 December 1928 to 01 November 1978. Parameters include temperature and salinity. Parameters also include concentrations of phosphate, oxygen, silicate, and nitrate.

Physical, nutrients, and other data from were collected from bottle casts from the Equatorial Pacific. Data were collected by the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University from 07 February 1979 to 14 June 1980. Physical parameters include profiles of temperature, salinity, and sigma-t. Nutrient parameters include concentrations profiles of oxygen, phosphate, nitrate, nitrite, silicate, partial CO2, and total CO2. Other parameters include alkalinity, Delta C-14, Delta C-13, and concentration of tritium.

Nutrients and meteorological data were collected using CTD and bottle casts from NOAA Ship MALCOLM BALDRIGE in the Pacific Ocean. Data were collected from 24 February 1990 to 12 April 1990. Data were collected and submitted by the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) with support from the Global Change Research Program (GCRP) project.

Physical, nutrients, and other data were collected from CTD and bottle casts from the North Pacific Ocean from 19 February 1991 to 31 December 2000. Parameters include water depth, temperature, and salinity. Parameters also include concentrations of chlorophyll, silicate, phosphate, nitrate, and nitrite. Minkley, B.G., and F.A. Whitney. 2001. Summary of Hydrographic/CTD Observations made along Line P and at Station P: 1991-1999. Canadian Data Report of Hydrography and Ocean Sciences No. 156: 40 p. A summary of 30 missions which sampled part or all of Line P between January 1991 and December 1999 is provided. Plots of mission tracks show the areas surveyed, participants are listed, and types of sampling, inventoried. A review of sampling equipment outlines the conversion from 1.7 litre Niskin bottles mounted on 5/32-inch wire hydro wire to CTD/Rosette cast sampling using 10 litre bottles. Missions which supported programs for World Ocean Circulation Experiment and Joint Global Ocean Flux Studies are listed. A previous report contained observations for the period January 1980 to December 1989 and is found in Canadian Data Report of Hydrography and Ocean Sciences No.136, by Tabata and Brown. Line P Program, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

Temperature profile and nutrients data were collected using bottle casts in the Ross Sea and Southern Oceans from the NATHANIEL B. PALMER. Data were collected from 09 November 1994 to 08 December 1994. The data were submitted by Oregon State University (OSU) with support from the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study / Southern Ocean (JGOFS/Southern Ocean) project.

Temperature profile and nutrients data were collected using bottle casts in the Ross Sea and Southern Oceans from the NATHANIEL B. PALMER. Data were collected from 16 December 1995 to 13 January 1996. The data were submitted by Oregon State University (OSU) with support from the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study / Southern Ocean (JGOFS/Southern Ocean) project.

Temperature profile, pressure, and nutrients data were collected using bottle in the South Atlantic Ocean from 24 November 1987 to 12 March 1989. Data were collected and submitted by Lamont-Doherty Earth Observation. The properties of nutrients include oxygen, phosphate, nitrate, nitrite, silicate, and alkalinity.

Physical and chemical data were collected using bottle casts in the North Atlantic Ocean and North Pacific Ocean from NOAA Ship MALCOLM BALDRIGE and other platforms from 15 June 1981 to 25 April 1994. Data were collected and submitted by Dr. Richard A. Feely of Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL).

Physical, nutrients, and chemical data were collected using bottle, CTD, XBT, XSV, AXBT, thermometer, and tide gauge casts from AIRCRAFT in the North and South Pacific Ocean. Data were collected and submitted by the Naval Oceanographic Office. Data were collected from 26 June 1925 to 28 April 1996.

This report contains results from the fifth cruise of the Marine Optical Characterization Experiment. A variety of spectroradiometric observations of the upper water column and atmosphere were made by investigators from the University of Miami, NOAA, CHORS, CICESE, Oregon State University, University of South Florida, UABC, NERSC and MLML. Data presented here were obtained by oceanographic CTD profiler: salinity, temperature, dissolved oxygen, beam attenuation and chlorophyll-a fluorescence; and by water samplers: total suspended matter and suspended organic carbon and nitrogen, salinity, and dissolved oxygen. Data were collected from 01 October 1999 to 21 October 1999.