Northeast Pacific Regional Climatology (NCEI accession 0163799) (NCEI Accession 0163799)

The Northeast Pacific (NEP) is an important region in the North Pacific Ocean. The NEP is home to the California Current System (CCS) and contains a large coastal upwelling zone along the west coast of North America. The CCS is one of the most productive ecosystems in the World Ocean, and its multidecadal variability is also important for long-term Earth and ocean climate change studies. Due to the economic significance and climatic importance of the CCS, intensive observational and research programs took place over many decades and yielded rich oceanographic data arrays of the CCS and adjacent NEP regions.

To provide an improved oceanographic foundation and reference for multi-disciplinary studies of the CCS and NEP, the NCEI Regional Climatology Team developed a new set of high-resolution, quality-controlled, and long-term annual, seasonal and monthly mean temperature and salinity fields at standard depth levels. This new regional climatology is based on the World Ocean Database archive of temperature and salinity and covers a time period from 1955 to 2012, or roughly six decades.

东北太平洋（Northeast Pacific, NEP）是北太平洋的重要海域。该海域拥有加利福尼亚流系统（California Current System, CCS），并沿北美西海岸分布有大型沿岸上升流区。加利福尼亚流系统是全球海洋中生产力最高的生态系统之一，其年代际变率对于长期地球与海洋气候变化研究同样具有关键意义。鉴于加利福尼亚流系统的经济价值与气候重要性，数十年来学界开展了大量密集的观测与研究计划，产出了覆盖加利福尼亚流系统及东北太平洋毗邻海域的丰富海洋学数据集阵列。为给加利福尼亚流系统与东北太平洋的多学科研究提供更完善的海洋学基础与参考依据，国家环境信息中心（NCEI）区域气候学团队开发了一套全新的高分辨率、经过质量控制的长期数据集，包含标准深度层上的年、季、月平均温度与盐度场。这套新型区域气候学数据集依托世界海洋数据库（World Ocean Database）的温度与盐度存档构建，时间跨度为1955年至2012年，共计约六十年。