Published Reports and Datasets

Publications

• New!📣A sea surface temperature product for monitoring Marine Heatwaves in the Northeast Pacific. A. Hilborn, L. Guan, D. Wan and A. Peña, 2025. Canadian Technical Report of Hydrography and Ocean Sciences. 394: v + 23 p.
• New tools for ADCP processing. H. Hourston, D. Wan and L. Guan, 2021. Canadian Technical Report of Hydrography and Ocean Sciences. 336: vi + 36 p.

Code

• ios-shell, a python package to parse “IOS Shell” format files found in the Water Properties database

Datasets

A few of the layers we have published are listed below. Some of the datasets listed here can also be found in the following online locations:

• Canada Marine Planning Atlas
• Salish Sea Initiative

Climatologies

Satellite Chlorophyll-a Concentration:

• Chlorophyll-a Concentration Monthly Climatology of the Pacific Exclusive Economic Zone, 2003-2020 (1 km and 4km spatial resolution, MODIS-Aqua)

Satellite Sea Surface Temperature:

• Sea Surface Temperature Monthly Climatology of the Pacific Exclusive Economic Zone, 2003-2020 (1 km, MODIS-Aqua)
• Sea Surface Temperature Monthly Climatology of the Pacific Exclusive Economic Zone, 1981-2010 (4 km, AVHRR)
• Sea Surface Temperature Monthly Climatology of the Pacific Exclusive Economic Zone, 1990-2020 (4 km, AVHRR)

Temperature, Salinity and Sigma-t

• Seasonal Climatologies of the Northeast Pacific Ocean (1980-2010)
• Seasonal Climatologies of the Canadian Pacific Exclusive Economic Zone (1980-2010)

Long-term Monitoring Data

• British Columbia Lightstation Sea-Surface Temperature and Salinity Data (Pacific) 1914-present