USCG Report Data:
Boston Lightship 42 20.4' N 70 45.5' W, 96 ft. water, Jan 1956 - Dec 1962
0, 30, 50, 95 ft. Temp, Sal
Boston Lightship 42 20.4' N 70 45.5' W, 29 m. water, Jan 1963 - Dec 1967
0, 9, 15, 29 m. Temp, Sal
Boston Lightship 42 20.4' N 70 45.5' W, 32 m. water, Jan 1968 - Dec 1971
0, 9, 15, 32 m. Temp, Sal
boston.sub - Records of daily water temperatures and salinity observations for the period Jan. 1956 - Dec. 1971. MBT (mechanical bathythermograph) slides read at 15 meter intervals by group at Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. This file is data digitized from U.S.C.G. Oceanographic Reports by the Orkand company at NCDC in fall of 1998. Information regarding keying format can be found here. See list of U.S.C.G. Report Data above for actual depth of measurements and changes in locality and water depth of the Lightship and look here for more background information.
boston_sub.kle - Data from portland.sub, tab-delimited with fields labelled by K. Elder.
boston.ls - Subsurface mbt
(mechanical bathythermograph) data for the period
Nov. 1955 - Jan. 1973 at 5 m
intervals given to K. Elder by George Hiemerdinger who read it from an
NCDC CDROM. Information regarding data format can be found
here.
Apparently there were two groups reading the mbt slides,
one at Woods Hole whose work was published in the Coast Guard Reports,
and the other at NCDC. The NCDC group read the slide at 5 meter intervals
whereas the WH group read them at 15 meter intervals.
boston.txt - Data from boston.ls file - most field names added, formatted and tab-delimited by K. Elder.