Physical oceanographic data were collected from NOAA Ship RAINIER west of Sitka Island, Alaska, from 18 May 2008 to 18 June 2008. Data were collected from CTD casts and parameters include temperature and salinity profiles. Data are self documenting and are in plain ASCII text. The Office of Protected Resources (OPR) is a headquarter program office of NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries Service, or NMFS), under the U.S. Department of Commerce, with responsibility for protecting marine mammals and endangered marine life. (from Office of Protected Resource web page, http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/, which was last accessed on 28 October 2008) These data were collected for project OPR-0112-RA-08.

Temperature and salinity profile data were collected using CTD casts in the Gulf of Alaska from NOAA Ship RAINER. Data were collected from 24 July 2008 to 25 July 2008 by National Ocean Service (NOS).

Pressure, salinity, and temperature data were collected from CTD casts from NOAA Ship RAINIER. Data were collected from the NE Pacific (limit-180) from 10 May 2001 to 20 November 2002. Data were submitted by the National Ocean Service (NOS) and are in the WHOI CTD Exchange Format.

Physical oceanographic data were collected from NOAA Ship RAINIER from the Colvos Passage in the Puget Sound from 09 April 2008 to 30 April 2008. Data were collected from CTD casts and parameters include temperature and salinity profiles. Data are self documenting and are in plain ASCII text.

The Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) data were collected in Gulf of Alaska. Data was collected from NOAA Ship RAINIER. The data was collected over a period spanning from June 10, 1992 and August 2, 1992. Data was submitted in a diskettes by Dr. Gunnar Roden, National Ocean Service, Seattle, WA. Data has been processed and is also available in F022-CTD-Hi Resolution file format of NODC. F022 High-resolution CTD data is collected from high resolution (conductivity-temperature-depth) instruments. As they are lowered and raised in the oceans, these electronic devices provide nearly continuous profiles of temperature, salinity and other parameters. Data values may be subject to averaging or filtering or obtained by interpolation and may be reported at depth intervals as fine as 1 m. Cruise and instrument information, position, date, time and sampling interval are reported for each station. Environmental data at the time of the cast (meteorological and sea surface conditions) may also be reported. The data record comprises values of temperature, salinity or conductivity and density at specified depth or pressure levels. Data may be reported at either equally or unequally spaced depth or pressure intervals.

CTD data were collected by NOAA Ship RAINIER and its survey launches in the Gulf of Esquibel. Data were collected by the National Ocean Service (NOS) from 06 May 2007 to 28 July 2007. Parameters include profiles of temperature and salinity.

CTD data were collected from NOAA Ship WHITING in the NW Atlantic (limit-40) from 05 April 2001 to 15 November 2001. Data include temperature and salinity profiles. Data are in the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) CTD exchange format.

Physical oceanographic data were collected from NOAA Ship RAINIER from the Colvos Passage in the Puget Sound from 10 April 2007 to 14 April 2007. Data were collected from CTD casts and parameters include temperature and salinity profiles. Data are self documenting and are in plain ASCII text.

Physical oceanographic data were collected from the NOAA Survey Vessel BAY HYDROGRAPHER in the NW Atlantic from 05 February 2007 to 06 February 2008. Data were collected from CTD casts and parameters include temperature and salinity profiles. Data are self documenting and are in plain ASCII text.