Temperature and salinity profile data from CTD casts from the NOAA Ship RAINIER west of Sitka Island, Alaska, from 18 May 2008 to 18 June 2008 (NODC Accession 0043263)

Physical oceanographic data were collected from the 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.