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Title: WATER TEMPERATURE and other data from ALIS, PACIFIC ISLANDER and other platforms from 1989-01-13 to 1991-09-14 (NCEI Accession 9200038)
Abstract: The water depth and temperature data were collected as part of Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere (TOGA) project from multiple ships between January 13, 1989 and September 14, 1991. The originator's bathythermograph (XBT) data containing 6699 profiles were submitted on a tape by Jean-Paul Rebert, Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la MER (IFREMER), Plouzane, France. The data have been converted and are now available on line in C116 (XBT) file format of NODC.

The data type C116 contained temperature-depth profile data obtained using expendable bathythermograph (XBT) instruments. Cruise information, position, date and time were reported for each observation. The data record was comprised of pairs of temperature-depth values. The XBT data files contained temperature values at non-uniform depths. These depths were recorded at the minimum number of points ("inflection points") required to accurately define the temperature curve. Standard XBTs can obtain profiles to depths of either 450 or 760 m. With special instruments, measurements can be obtained to 1830 m.
Date received: 19890118
Start date: 19890113
End date: 19910914
Seanames:
West boundary: 49.35
East boundary: -80.17
North boundary: 47.78
South boundary: -36.1
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Submitter: Rebert, Jean-Paul
Submitting institution: IFREMER
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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.

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Points of contact for this data set include:
Contact info:
Agency: INSTITUT FRANCAIS DE RECHERCHE POUR L'EXPLOITATION DE LA MER - BREST
PI: Rebert, Jean-Paul
Address:
address: B.P. 70
city: PLOUZANE
state: NOT AVAILABLE
postal: 29263
country: FRANCE

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: 19900419
Metadata version: 8
Keydate: 2002-11-19 19:40:22+00
Editdate: 2023-02-15 00:29:56+00