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Bottle temperature

The registry carries no authored label for this measurement, so the name above is the canonical series' own description in metadata/measurement_type.csv (variable.csv holds the authored labels, five today).

NERC P01 TEMPPR01P06 units UPAA degCkey btl_temperature series btl_temperature
141,771
values
8,146
sampling events
1993–2025
years
1
dataset
1–3,510 m
depth
Jan · Feb · Mar · Apr · May · Jun · Jul · Aug · Sep · Oct · Nov
seasons

Heads-up The btl_temperature series from CTD Cast Files carries no flag at this grain, so its values cannot be screened this way.

Measured in

  • CTD Cast Files 141,771 values · 8,146 sampling events · 1993–2025 · 1–3,510 m · 91 grid cells · 114 cruises
    series btl_temperature · source column btl_temp no flag at this grain

One row per series, one cell per year, darker with more values — the same strip the front door draws per dataset and a species page draws per taxon. Each row is one dataset's own measurement_type; the label is written once, in the title above.

By depth

Values per depth band at the release grain, one thin bar per series. The bands are the record's own (0-102000+ m).

By month

Values per calendar month, one row per series: CalCOFI's quarterly cruises show as peaks in the months the ships sail.

Range & quality

bounds
The registry declares -2 … 40 °C for btl_temperature; a value outside it is dropped at the ingest (drop_out_of_bounds()).
observed
CTD Cast Files btl_temperature 1.52 · median 10.64 · 23.56 °C (5th–95th percentile 6.179–17.58)
flags
CTD Cast Files btl_temperature carries no quality code at the release grain; qual_ok keeps all 141,771.
baseline
A monthly climatology exists for this measurement (the release's climatology table: 1993–2013, dataset × grid cell × calendar month × 10 m bin), so the Explorer can draw anomalies against it rather than values.

Related measurements

  • Temperature temperature · temperature_ave · Hydrographic Bottle · CTD Cast Files · 1949–2026 · 1,575,364 values · P01 TEMPPR01 the same quantity from the CTD files' own bottle samples — plausibly the same physical bottles, so merging them would count the bottle dataset twice

The same quantity from another platform or another kind of sample, each its own page and never merged into this one: a dataset's own bottle samples would count that dataset twice, an underway intake is not a cast, and a replicate is not a mean. The reason is the record's (related[].why).

Ways in

This page as data

Read from measurements.json of release v2026.09.10, written at release by calcofi4db::build_measurements_catalog() beside taxa.json. The catalog's index is /measurements/; the JSON-LD on this page is a schema.org/DefinedTerm in the NERC P01 term set with a PropertyValue per series.

Cite

Cite the release; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page — CTD Cast Files. The Explorer's Share → Cite writes it for the view you make.