The Minerals Management Service (MMS) program "Sediment Quality in Depositional Areas of Shelikof Strait and Outermost Cook Inlet," consisted of a two-year study whose hypotheses and objectives are explored in this report. As part of this study, a scientific crew on board the Research Vessel Alpha Helix, collected samples for biological, chemical, and toxicological analyses from the program study area during two sampling surveys. The first survey was conducted from July 7 to July 17, 1997 and the second undertaken the following year, from June 27 to July 5, 1998.

Chemical, current meter, and other data were collected using current meter, bottle, XBT, and CTD casts in the Gulf of Mexico from November 16, 1997 to August 8, 2000. Data were submitted by Texas A&M University as part of the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico Physical Oceanographic Program: Chemical Oceanography and Hydrography Study (NEGOM) project.

Physical, current, and other data were collected from FIXED PLATFORMS in the Gulf of Alaska from 31 March 2000 to 19 September 2001. Data were collected by the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) in support of the Fisheries Oceanography Coordination Investigations (FOCI) Program. Physical data include temperature, salinity, pressure, and conductivity. Current data include current direction, current speed, zonal current velocity, and meridional current velocity.

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Land-Ocean Interaction Study (LOIS) investigated sediments, nutrients and contaminants from the watershed to the edge of the coastal shelf. The programme quantified and modelled fluxes of these materials and investigated how they are transformed as they move through river catchments, estuaries and coastal seas.

The Biogeochemical Ocean Flux Study (BOFS) was a Community Research Project of the Marine and Atmospheric Sciences Directorate of the Natural Environment Research Council. It was hosted by the Plymouth Marine Laboratory from April 1987 to April 1992, with a bridging to April 1993 for cruises to the Southern Oceans. The North Atlantic field program was conducted between April 1989 and July 1991.

CTD data were collected from NOAA Ship Rainier in coastal Alaska/Washington/Oregon from 04 April 2000 to 14 November 2001. Data include temperature and salinity profiles. Data are in the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) CTD exchange format.

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This CD-ROM includes the normals and standard deviations of the sea temperatures based on analyzed data which were derived from observations in a 30-year period from 1971 through 2000. Concerning "analyzed data", data of every 10-day (1080 10-days) and every month (360 months) are included.

Data were submitted by Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) Climate and Marine Department.

Temperature profiles were collected from XBT casts from the HMAS MELBOURNE and other vessels in the Indian Ocean from 01 January 1991 to 31 December 2001. Data were collected by the Royal Australian Navy and submitted by the Australian Oceanographic Data Centre in support of World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) and the Global Temperature-Salinity Pilot Project (GTSPP).