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16 datasets · 17 holdings · 25 reference rows

Datasets

Every dataset CalCOFI holds — the 16 in the integrated database, each with its coverage, every endpoint it can be reached through and how to cite it, and the 17 holdings that are not in the database yet. One page per dataset; the machine-readable catalog is data.json and sitemap.xml.

CalCOFI integrated database v2026.09.052026-09-05
datasets
16
tables
23
rows
348 M
holdings
17

Datasets by category

Physical Oceanography

2 datasets · 2 contributing · 2 held

Nutrients & Chemistry

0 datasets · 2 contributing · 4 held

Carbonate System

1 dataset · 3 contributing

Productivity & Pigments

0 datasets · 3 contributing · 4 held

Meteorology & Sea State

1 dataset

Phytoplankton

1 dataset · 3 held

Picoplankton & Bacteria

1 dataset

Zooplankton

5 datasets · 1 held

Euphausiids (Krill)

1 dataset

Fish Eggs & Larvae

2 datasets
  • CUFES Fish Eggs NOAA SWFSC1996–2022284,097 obsparquet · netCDF · ERDDAPcustom
  • Ichthyoplankton NOAA SWFSC1951–2023482,250 obsparquet · netCDF · ERDDAP · OBIS

Mesopelagic Fish

1 dataset

Seabirds & Marine Mammals

1 dataset · 1 held

Genomics & eDNA

0 datasets · 2 held

The reference frame

25 reference rows

Not datasets: the frame every dataset joins to — the cruise and ship registry, the station grid, the boundary layers and the bathymetry.

Release tables

  • Cruise 842 rowsparquet ↗unique by ship and year-month
  • Ship 49 rowsparquet ↗unique ship with many cruises
  • Grid 218 rowsparquet ↗CalCOFI survey grid polygons with standard and historical station patterns
  • Spatial Layers 13206 rowsparquet ↗Geometries for ancillary spatial layers (CA jurisdictions NOAA boundaries marine protected areas etc.) keyed by spatial_key. Sourced from metadata/spatial_layers.csv. Companion to spatial_attribute.
  • Spatial Layer Attributes 148461 rowsparquet ↗Non-geometry attributes for features in spatial in long entity-attribute-value form (spatial_key layer fld and one typed val_* column). Allows attribute schemas to differ across layers without column proliferation.

19 spatial layers

Maritime Zones

Protected Areas

Administrative

Ecological

Energy & Industry

Bathymetry

  • GEBCO 2025 bathymetry pmtiles ↗tif ↗GEBCO 2025 sub-ice topo/bathy, 15 arc-second, Int16 m, lon -180→-90 × lat 0→90GEBCO Compilation Group (2025) GEBCO 2025 Grid (doi:10.5285/37c52e96-24ea-67ce-e063-7086abc05f29)