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OAS accession Detail for 8700271
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Title: Cloud amount/frequency, TRANSMISSIVITY and other data from OCEANUS in the NW Atlantic from 1984-03-17 to 1984-11-20 (NCEI Accession 8700271)
Abstract: Data has been processed by NODC to the NODC standard High-Resolution CTD/STD (F022) format.

The F022 format contains high-resolution data collected using CTD (conductivity-temperature-depth) and STD (salinity-temperature-depth) instruments. As they are lowered and raised in the oceans, these electronic devices provide nearly continuous profiles of temperature, salinity, and other parameters. Data values may be subject to averaging or filtering or obtained by interpolation and may be reported at depth intervals as fine as 1m. Cruise and instrument information, position, date, time and sampling interval are reported for each station. Environmental data at the time of the cast (meteorological and sea surface conditions) may also be reported. The data record comprises values of temperature, salinity or conductivity, density (computed sigma-t), and possibly dissolved oxygen or transmissivity at specified depth or pressure levels. Data may be reported at either equally or unequally spaced depth or pressure intervals. A text record is available for comments.
Date received: 19870811
Start date: 19840317
End date: 19841120
Seanames:
West boundary: -71.01
East boundary: -68.48
North boundary: 40.84
South boundary: 39.8
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Submitting institution: US DOI; US Geological Survey; Woods Hole Science Center
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Supplementary information: Note: 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).

Principal Investigator (PI) and organization contact information accurately represents all available information from the legacy database at the time that this description was created. However, proper attribution of a PI to a specific institution or the role (submitting or collecting) taken by an institution may not be correct due to inexact mapping between fields in the legacy database and the CSDGM. Due to this uncertainty, the contact information was initially recorded in the Supplemental Information element of the CSDGM description.

To develop more accurate metadata, NCEI reviews metadata for all accessions on an ongoing basis.

Points of contact for this data set include:
Contact info:
Agency: US DOI; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY - WOODS HOLE
PI: N/A
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: WOODS HOLE
state: MA
postal: NOT AVAILABLE
country: UNITED STATES
Availability date: 19870811
Metadata version: 6
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:38:09+00
Editdate: 2023-02-12 22:34:24+00