Carter, Melissa L.; Flick, Reinhard E.; Terrill, Eric; Beckhaus, Elena C.; Martin, Kayla; Fey, Connie L.; Walker, Patricia W.; Largier, John L.; McGowan, John A. (2022). Shore Stations Program - La Jolla, Scripps Pier. In Shore Stations Program Data Archive: Current and Historical Coastal Ocean Temperature and Salinity Measurements from California Stations. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. https://doi.org/10.6075/J06T0K0M

Scripps staff, Birch aquarists, and volunteers take daily temperature and salinity samples from the end of the Scripps Pier at the sea surface and near the bottom at a depth of about 5 meters. The proximity of Scripps Pier to the deep waters at the head of La Jolla submarine canyon results in data quite representative of oceanic conditions. Scripps Pier is a total of 1084 ft. long (330.4 M) and 22.5 ft. wide for most of its length. However it is 46.0 ft. wide at the end where the lab/pump house structure is situated with the west wall standing 88.0 ft. from the end of the pier (=996 ft. from the shore). The orientation is 277 / 97 degrees magnetic, 14 degrees East variation. The deck of the pier is 33.5 ft. above Mean Low Low Water (MLLW).

Daily surface and bottom temperature and salinity measurements for La Jolla, Scripps Pier Station.

• 1916 to present (surface); 1926 to present (bottom)

• 2022

• Carter, Melissa L.
• Flick, Reinhard E.

• Birch Aquarium
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography

California Department of Parks and Recreation, Natural Resources Division, Award #C1670003 (2017-2022), Award# C22820005 (2023).

• Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier (San Diego, Calif.)

• Bottom salinity
• Bottom temperature
• Conductivity
• Long term coastal ocean observations
• Manual shore stations
• Ocean salinity
• Ocean temperature
• Sea surface salinity
• Sea surface temperature
• Shore stations

Point: 32.866954, -117.257146

• data
• text

• English

Identifier: Melissa L. Carter: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3458-4775

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