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Title: Oceanographic station data from bottle casts from the ALKOR and Other Platforms from Ocean Weather Stations A (OWS-A), OWS-K, and OWS-M in the North Atlantic Ocean and the Norwegian Sea from 1963-01-03 to 1972-12-11 (NCEI Accession 7500642)
Abstract: Oceanographic station data were collected from the ALKOR and Other Platforms within a 1-mile radius of Ocean Weather Stations A (6200N 03300W), OWS-K (4500N 01600W), and OWS-M (6600 N 00200E) and in transit. Data were collected by Danish Institute for Fishery and Marine Research and other institutions from 03 January 1963 to 11 December 1972. 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: 19750612
Start date: 19630103
End date: 19721211
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West boundary: -140.9
East boundary: -122.65
North boundary: 31.083333
South boundary: 25.1
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Submitting institution: University of Kiel
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Supplementary information: 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: UNIVERSITAET KIEL
PI: N/A
Address:
address: Dusternbrooker Weg 20
city: KIEL
state: W/230
postal: NOT AVAILABLE
country: GERMANY
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Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER
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Agency: DANISH INSTITUTE FOR FISHERY AND MARINE RESEARCH
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: CHARLOTTENLUND
state: NOT AVAILABLE
postal: NOT AVAILABLE
country: DENMARK
Contact info:
Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER
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Contact info:
Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER
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Agency: HAFRANNSOKNASTOFNUNIN REYKJAVIK OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE
Address:
address: P.O. BOX 390
city: REYKJAVIK
state: NOT AVAILABLE
postal: 101
country: ICELAND
Contact info:
Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER
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Agency: FISHERIES LABORATORY - LOWESTOFT
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address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: LOWESTOFT
state: SUFFOLK
postal: NOT AVAILABLE
country: UNITED KINGDOM

In this accession, NCEI has archived multiple versions of these data. The latest (and best) version of these data has the largest version number.
Availability date: 19880314
Metadata version: 13
Keydate: 2002-11-19 19:40:22+00
Editdate: 2022-08-06 12:52:16+00