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OAS accession Detail for 7000212
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| Title: | Oceanographic station data from bottle casts from the Ocean Weather Station A (OWS-A) in the North Atlantic Ocean 1963-01-02 to 1963-04-13 (NCEI Accession 7000212) |
| Abstract: | Oceanographic station data were collected within a 1-mile radius of Ocean Weather Station A (6200N 03300W) and in transit. Data were collected by the University of Bergen; Geophysics Institute from 02 January 1963 to 13 April 1963. Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard Station Data II Output Format (SD2). The SD2 format contains physical-chemical oceanographic data recorded at discrete depth levels. Most of the observations were made using multi-bottle Nansen casts or other types of water samplers. A small amount (about 5 percent) were obtained using electronic CTD (conductivity-temperature-depth) or STD (salinity-temperature-depth) recorders. The CTD/STD data were reported to NODC at depth levels equivalent to Nansen cast data, however, and have been processed and stored the same as the Nansen data. Cruise information (e.g., ship, country, institution), position, date, and time, and reported for each station. The principal measured parameters are temperature and salinity, but dissolved oxygen, phosphate, total phosphorus, silicate, nitrate, nitrite, and pH may be reported. Meteorological conditions at the time of the cast (e.g., air temperature and pressure, wind, waves) may also be reported, as well as auxiliary data such as water color (Forel-Ule scale), water transparency (Secchi disk depth), and depth to bottom. Values of density (sigma-t) sound velocity, and dynamic depth anomaly are computed from measured parameters. Each station contains the measurements taken at the observed depth levels, but also includes data values interpolated to a set of standard depth levels. |
| Date received: | 19700317 |
| Start date: | 19630102 |
| End date: | 19630413 |
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| West boundary: | -33.25 |
| East boundary: | -32.666667 |
| North boundary: | 62.1 |
| South boundary: | 61.916667 |
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| Submitting institution: | University of Bergen; Geophysical Institute |
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| Supplementary information: | The publication listed below is related to the data collection and is available from the NOAA Central Library: Environmental surveys: NORWESTLANT 1-3, 1963. Dartmouth, N.S., 1968. Note: Preliminary metadata for this accession were extracted from a legacy database maintained by the U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). The design of the database did not exactly reflect the FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM). To develop more accurate metadata, NCEI reviews metadata for all accessions on an ongoing basis. Metadata were updated in July of 2007. Points of contact for this dataset include: Contact info: Agency: UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN; GEOPHYSICAL INST PI: N/A Address: address: BENDIXENSVEI 14 city: BERGEN state: MINDE postal: 5032 country: NORWAY |
| Availability date: | 19700317 |
| Metadata version: | 8 |
| Keydate: | 2003-10-24 17:13:57+00 |
| Editdate: | 2022-08-06 03:11:17+00 |