WATER TEMPERATURE and Other Data from MOANA WAVE and Other Platforms From North Pacific Ocean from 19881030 to 19891129 (NODC Accession 9300183)

JGOFS Hawaii Ocean Time Series data (HOTS) data collected primarily from a HOTS deepwater site 100 km north of Kahuku Point, Oahu (Station Aloha, 22 degrees 45 N, 158 degrees W. A second station near Kahe Point at 21 degrees 20.6 N, 158 degrees 16.4 W provided addtional data at a nearshore site). Data were collected during the first twelve cruises of HOT from October 1988 to November 1989 from the University of Hawaii's R/V Moana Wave and the SSP KAIMALINO.

In addition to these JGOFS data, NODC has archived HOTS-1 data that has passed through quality controls of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE). WOCE data were submitted on magnetic tape and are filed under NODC Accession Number 9300009, Reference Numbers L01474 -85, NODC Tape # D02627 and cartridge number W74047. The primary difference between the "WOCE" HOTS-1 data and "JGOFS" HOTS-1 data are the additional biogeochemical parameters included in the "JGOFS" data set. Although there is overlapping between data required by the WOCE program and the JGOFS program, the primary focus of WOCE is on physical oceanographic processes; the primary focus of JGOFS is on biological/chemical processes.