Distribution of Hakai Water Properties Profile Data

The Hakai water properties profile data is distributed across several platforms to ensure accessibility and ease of use for researchers and stakeholders. Below is a list of the different places where you can access this data:

Datasets

Hakai make available 4 types levels of the Water Properties Vertical Profile Dataset:

• Original manufacturer files (api, portal only)
• Raw data with no processing applied (api, portal only)
• Provisional dataset: Data was automatically processed via the processing pipelined and automatically qced.
• Research Ready: A subset of the provisional dataset which was manually qced by an Hakai Specialist and approved for distribution. Any profiles/variables and specific records flagged as Suspicous or Bad are ignored from this dataset.

Data Distribution

Hakai Data Portal

• URL: hecate.hakai.org/portal2
• Description: The Hecate Portal provides acess to the processed data and is the location where the data is submitted by the once retrieved from the field.

Hakai ERDDAP

• URL: Hakai ERDDAP
• Description: ERDDAP (Environmental Research Division's Data Access Program) is a data server that provides a simple, consistent way to download subsets of scientific datasets in common file formats and make graphs and maps. The Hakai ERDDAP server hosts a wide range of water properties profile data.
• Datasets:
  • Provisional: Hakai Water Properties Vertical Profile Data Measured by Oceanographic Profilers, Provisional
  • Research: Hakai Water Properties Vertical Profiles Measured by Oceanographic Profilers, Research

Hakai Catalogue

Hakai official metadata catalogue

• URL: Hakai Catalogue
• Description: The Hakai Catalogue is a comprehensive repository of datasets collected by the Hakai Institute. It includes detailed metadata and various tools for searching and accessing water properties profile data.
• Datasets:
  • Provisional: Hakai Water Properties Vertical Profile Data Measured by Oceanographic Profilers, Provisional
  • Research: Hakai Water Properties Vertical Profile Data Measured by Oceanographic Profilers, Research

Hakai API

• documentation: Hakai API documentation
• examples: A series of notebooks are presented here and demonstrate how to the use the hakai API to retrieve the different hakai data.

Data Visualization

The Hakai CTD Map is use to present the hakai ctd data distribution and each stations timeseries.

These platforms collectively ensure that the Hakai water properties profile data is readily available for scientific research and environmental monitoring.