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  1. Collection

    Shore Stations Program Data Archive: Current and historical coastal ocean temperature and salinity measurements from California stations

    • Data from the Shore Stations Program consists of current and historical daily, manual measurements of surface temperature and salinity from the nine active stations located on the California coastline.
    • Date: 1916 to present
  2. Collection

    Data from: Autumn precipitation: the competition with Santa Ana winds in determining fire outcomes in southern California

    • This dataset includes two versions of the Santa Ana Wind Regional Index (SAWRI) and Livneh precipitation data from 1948-2018.
    • Date: Compiled: 1948 to 2018
  3. Collection

    Historical Catalog of Winter Weather Regimes Impacting California, 1949-2017

    • This dataset contains a historical catalog of daily atmospheric winter weather regimes observed over the North Pacific and western North America spanning 1949-2017. These weather regimes have been identified as important drivers of atmospheric river landfalls, Santa Ana winds, floods, and wildfires in California.
    • Date: November-February 1949 to 2017
  4. Collection

    dataMares: Fisheries

    • This collection contains robust, high-quality scientific information related to Mexico-specific ocean fisheries and their relationship to marine reserves, coastal and marine ecosystems, and climate change. It also contains datasets with information on fishing activities collected with the participation of local fishermen.
    • Date: 1950-01-01 to present
  5. Collection

    Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Geological Collections

    • A growing archive of sea-floor samples and associated data supporting a diverse variety of scientific research.
    • Date: 1950 to 2006
  6. Collection

    Data from Scripps Research Expeditions 1953-2005

    • Data and documents from Scripps Institution of Oceanography research vessel expeditions from 1953-2005, including geophysical, water column, and sea surface measurements.
    • Date: 1953 to 2005
  7. Collection

    Scripps CO2 Program Data

    • This collection contains measurements of atmospheric CO2 concentration and isotopic abundances at an array of stations, from the Arctic to Antarctica.
    • Date: 1957 to present
  8. Collection

    Heavy Metals in the Ocean Insect, Halobates

    • Data on 7 heavy metals are available from samples of Halobates collected from the Pacific Ocean: Cr (chromium), Cu (copper), Pb (lead), Mn (manganese), Ni (nickel), Ti (titanium) and Zn (zinc).
    • Date: 1961 to 1978
  9. Collection

    CCHDO Hydrographic Data Archive

    • The CCHDO Hydrographic Data Collection contains high quality, global, vessel-based CTD and Niskin bottle data from GO-SHIP, WOCE, CLIVAR and other repeat hydrography programs past and present.
    • Date: 1972 to present
  10. Collection

    Cell Centered Database

    • A collection of high resolution 2D, 3D and 4D data from light and electron microscopy of tissues from the nervous system and other systems.
    • Date: 1986 to 2012
  11. Collection

    Data from: The Agricultural Productivity Gap

    • Dataset contains data by country for about 150 countries on GDP per capita, employment share in agriculture, value added share in agriculture, agricultural productivity gap, average hours worked, years of schooling, and human capital.
    • Date: 1988 to 2011
  12. Collection

    Data from: Machine learning for daily forecasts of Arctic sea-ice motion: an attribution assessment of model predictive skill

    • MATLAB R2021b, Python and bash files used for data download and analysis. Processed data and MATLAB R2021b plotting files.
    • Date: 1989 to 2021
  13. Collection

    Scripps O2 Program Data

    • The Scripps O2 Program website at https://scrippso2.ucsd.edu provides access to openly available atmospheric O2/N2 ratio and CO2 concentration data from various sources along with graphics. Redundant copies of the atmospheric O2/N2 and CO2 data from 12 sampling stations are being deposited here, through the UC San Diego Library, to provide enhanced discovery, long-term accessibility, and preservation. The latest data archives from the 10 active stations are added to this collection as they become available.
    • Date: 1989 to present
  14. Collection

    California Tobacco Survey (CTS)

    • The objective of these surveys is to collect representative statewide data on cigarette smoking behavior, attitudes towards smoking, media exposure to smoking, and use of tobacco products other than cigarettes, from populations living in California.
    • Date: 1990 to 2011
  15. Collection

    Data from: Plankton energy flows using a global size-structured and trait-based model

    • This collection includes a global 20 year (1990-2009) climatology of diagnostic and prognostic variables for the Size-based Plankton Ecological TRAits (MARBL-SPECTRA) model.
    • Date: 1990 to 2009
  16. Collection

    Underway Shipboard Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (SADCP) Data Archive

    • Underway shipboard acoustic Doppler current profiler (SADCP) database assembled from the public archive of CODAS post-processed data.
    • Date: 1990 to 2020
  17. Collection

    Data from: Ocean Surface Salinity Response to Atmospheric River Precipitation in the California Current System

    • Oceanic and atmospheric measurements, reanalysis and modeled outputs in the California Current System.
    • Date: 1992 to 2019
  18. Collection

    Data from: The Seasonal Cycle of Significant Wave Height in the Ocean: Local Versus Remote Forcing

    • This collection consists of NetCDF files that contain intermediate products derived from observer and modelled data produced by the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER) and Remote Sensing Systems, corresponding to analysis by Colosi et al. (2021).
    • Date: 1993-01-01 to 2016-12-31
  19. Collection

    Data from: Interannual variations in meltwater input to the Southern Ocean from Antarctic ice shelves

    • Height changes and basal melt rates of Antarctic ice shelves from satellite remote sensing, 1994–2018.
    • Date: 1994 to 2018
  20. Collection

    Women's Healthy Eating and Living (WHEL) Study

    • The WHEL Study was a multisite, randomized, controlled trial of the effectiveness of a high-vegetable, low-fat diet in reducing additional breast cancer events and early death in women with early-stage invasive breast cancer.
    • Date: 1995 to 2006
  21. Collection

    Data from: The Influence of Cloudiness on Hydrologic Fluctuations in the Mountains of the Western United States

    • Daily cloud cover indices derived from 4x4 km GOES visible albedo product for snow pillow sites and stream gauges in the mountains of the western U.S.
    • Date: 1996-01-01 to 2015-12-31
  22. Collection

    Data from: North American Monsoon Impacts Southern California’s Coastal Low Clouds

    • This collection contains data from "North American Monsoon Impacts Southern California’s Coastal Low Clouds" (Clemesha et al. 2023). Data files include: satellite-derived Coastal Low Cloudiness (CLC) for May - September 1996 - 2020, seasonal cycle fit of CLC used to create daily anomalies, San Diego airport cloud cover, precipitable water content from 850 to 300 hPa from observations in southern and northern California, a previously published single column model radiative scheme with input and outputs files used in this study.
    • Date: May through September, 1996 to 2020
  23. Collection

    SWellEx-96 Experiment Acoustic Data

    • SWellEx96 was an ocean acoustic experiment, conducted off San Diego, May 1996. It collected broadband/multitone signals between 50 and 400 Hz on horizontal, vertical, and tilted line arrays.
    • Date: 1996-05-10 to 1996-05-18
  24. Collection

    dataMares Collection

    • DataMares holds a massive amount of fishery, reef, mangrove, and other data pertaining to the ecology of Mexico, particularly coastal and marine ecosystems of the Gulf of California, and delivers this information in an interactive and digestible manner.
    • Date: 1998 to present
  25. Collection

    dataMares: Ecological Monitoring

    • This collection contains databases from regular surveys conducted to track annual changes in the structure, function, and health of marine ecosystems, as well as organisms like fishes and invertebrates at numerous island and coastal sites.
    • Date: 1998 to present
  26. Collection

    BindingDB: Measured Binding Data for Protein-Ligand and Other Molecular Systems

    • This collection contains the full BindingDB dataset of experimental protein-ligand and host-guest binding data.
    • Date: 2000 to present
  27. Collection

    Data from: A Climatic Sand Management Model for Cardiff State Beach, CA

    • Annual mean beach width and nearshore sand volume survey estimates for 2000-2019 at South Torrey Pines and Cardiff State Beach, CA, and associated sediment budget modeling code for Cardiff State Beach.
    • Date: 2000 to 2021
  28. Collection

    Scripps Argo Trajectory-Based Velocity Product

    • This collection contains absolute velocity estimates from quality controlled Argo trajectory files. Both Scripps trajectory products include trajectories from Core, BGC and Deep Argo floats starting in 2001. The Scripps trajectory products provide velocities between 800-1200 dbar or 100-6200 dbar.
    • Date: 2001 through 2020
  29. Collection

    Khirbat en-Nahas Project (Jordan)

    • A collection of archaeological artifacts and data for the excavation of the Khirbat en-Nahas site, and exploration of Iron Age state formation in southern Jordan.
    • Date: 2002 to 2009
  30. Collection

    Bee Research Methods: Video Demonstrations

    • This collection shows bee behaviors and methods used to study bee behaviors.
    • Date: 2005 to 2014
  31. Collection

    Daily POP Model Output over the Equatorial Indian Ocean

    • Daily POP Model output (2005-2009) extracted over the equatorial Indian Ocean.
    • Date: 2005 to 2009
  32. Collection

    Data from: Mechanisms of heat flux across the Southern Greenland continental shelf in 1/10° and 1/12° ocean/sea ice simulations

    • Volume and heat fluxes across the Greenland continental shelf in two eddy-active coupled ocean/sea-ice simulations.
    • Date: 2005 to 2009
  33. Collection

    Data from: Seasonal cycle and annual reversal of the Somali Current in an eddy-resolving global ocean model

    • The dataset includes a subset of model output from a global 0.1-deg CORE-II forced POP simulation near the region of the Arabian Sea, supporting the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans article with the same name.
    • Date: 2005 to 2009
  34. Collection

    Data from: 'Whale Wave': shifting strategies structure the complex use of critical fjord habitat by humpbacks

    • This collection contains the data, R programming files, and detailed protocols for various aspects of analysis for the publication: Keen et al. 2016. "Whale Wave": shifting strategies structure the complex use of critical fjord habitat by humpbacks.
    • Date: 2005 to 2015
  35. Collection

    Santa Fe Light Cone Simulation research project files

    • This project was the result of an ongoing effort by the Laboratory for Computational Astrophysics, leading to development of the Enzo simulation software capable of a seven-level adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) cosmology simulation.
    • Date: 2005 to 2012
  36. Collection

    Teaching Bee

    • This collection of documents provides teaching exercises and information for instructors of students ranging from junior high school through college.
    • Date: 2005 to 2013
  37. Collection

    CLIvar and MOde water Dynamics Experiment (CLIMODE) and Antarctic Intermediate Water (AAIW) Float Data Archive

    • Calibrated and uncalibrated data from 12 Argo-equivalent, Webb Research ApexSBE profiling floats in the North Atlantic's Eighteen Degree Water region (CLIMODE), and southeast Pacific’s Subantarctic Mode Water region. Sensors: pressure, temperature, salinity, and Aanderaa optode oxygen.
    • Date: 2005-11-10 to 2008-05-21
  38. Collection

    Abraham A. Palmer Lab Research Data Collection

    • We are studying the relationship between genotype and phenotype, especially behavioral phenotypes. Palmer Lab members collaborate on federally-funded projects that use a variety of species including humans, rats, mice, and zebrafish. A major focus of this work has been on developing and refining methods for genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in model organisms and integrating these results with expression QTLs (eQTL) and other -omics to identify specific and testable hypotheses about the relationship between genes and behavior.
    • Date: 2006 to present
  39. Collection

    Hydrographic Doppler Sonar System (HDSS): Acoustic ocean current profiling data from the R/V Revelle

    • The Hydrographic Doppler Sonar System on the R/V Revelle provides profiles of absolute ocean current and acoustic scattering strength in support of scientific operations with 50kHz & 140kHz sonars capable of sampling between 20m and 700–1100m and between 20m and 150–350m, respectively.
    • Date: 2006 to 2017
  40. Collection

    Western Pacific Atmospheric River Object Data from MODE detection software using West-WRF, GEFS, and MERRA-2

    • The collection contains NetCDF files of atmospheric river objects as processed through the Method for Object-based Diagnostic Evaluation software.
    • Date: 2006-12 to 2017-03
  41. Collection

    Data from: Using a Lagrangian particle tracking model to evaluate impacts of El Niño-related advection on euphausiids in the southern California Current System

    • These supplemental animations depict particle backtracks for six euphausiid species sampled in the southern California Current System in spring, 2008-2017. The particle model runs four months backward to determine winter water mass origins.
    • Date: 2007-11-01 to 2017-03-31
  42. Collection

    Atmospheric Aerosol Submicron Particle Composition including Organic Functional Group Concentrations at Arctic Locations

    • This collection includes separate data sets of atmospheric aerosol submicron particle composition that include organic functional group concentrations at locations within the Arctic.
    • Date: 2008 to 2014
  43. Collection

    Keith Rayner Eye Movements in Reading Data Collection

    • This collection consists of data and materials from a subset of published eye movement studies of reading conducted in Keith Rayner’s Eyetracking Lab at UCSD from 2008-2015
    • Date: 2008 to 2015
  44. Collection

    SeaFET & SeapHOx

    • Documentation for SeaFET and SeapHOx oceanographic sensors.
    • Date: 2008 to 2021
  45. Collection

    California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI): Acoustic and Trawl Data

    • This is a voluminous data set containing acoustic and trawl data collected on CalCOFI (California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations) cruises.
    • Date: 2009 to 2015
  46. Collection

    CAVEcam Virtual Reality Photography Collection

    • Full-surround 3-D images make up this collection of original and rendered composite images called CAVEcams which are very high-resolution images for both left and right eye, normally viewed in virtual reality systems, either CAVEs or HMDs.
    • Date: 2009 to 2016
  47. Collection

    Center for Aerosol Impacts on Chemistry of the Environment (CAICE)

    • A wide array of chemical, physical, and computational measurements, models, and data sets for laboratory-generated sea spray aerosols and model systems. Each item in the collection is associated with a published peer-reviewed manuscript.
    • Date: 2010 to present
  48. Collection

    Data from: DNA damage induced during mitosis undergoes DNA repair synthesis

    • A study of the DNA repair response to laser-induced DNA damage in selected mitotic chromosomes.
    • Date: 2010 to 2019
  49. Collection

    Data from: Harmonic Analysis of Non-Phase-Locked Tides with Red Noise Using the red_tide Package

    • Data, functions, and scripts associated with "Harmonic Analysis of Non-Phase-Locked Tides with Red Noise Using the red_tide Package" (Kachelein et al. 2022).
    • Date: 2010 to 2021
  50. Collection

    Standard Operating Procedure Documents for Coral Reef Ecological Monitoring

    • This collection contains documents describing methods used by the Sandin Lab to collect standardized coral reef community ecology data.
    • Date: 2010 to Present