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Title: Delayed XBT data assembled for the Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Programme (GTSPP) and processed 2000-01-10 - 2000-01-16 (NCEI Accession 0000002)
Abstract: This dataset represents data collected from the Shipboard Environmental (data) Acquisition System (SEAS), a program developed by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to provide accurate meteorological and oceanographic data in real time from ships at sea through the use of satellite data transmission techniques. The system transmits data through either the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) or the International Maritime Satellite Organization (INMARSAT C) satellites to NOAA for use in weather, climatological and ocean models. NOAA is actively participating in an international effort to increase the number of subsurface temperature observations in support of global oceanographic and climate studies. NOAA's Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) program, SEAS, currently supports about 80 Voluntary Observing Ships (VOS). SEAS XBT data are archived by the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) on a weekly basis.
Date received: 20000106
Start date: 19810331
End date: 19991222
Seanames: Bering Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin, New York Bight, North Atlantic Ocean, North Pacific Ocean, Philippine Sea, South Atlantic Ocean, South Pacific Ocean, Tasman Sea
West boundary: 132.1
East boundary: 14.84
North boundary: 63.12
South boundary: -37.28
Observation types: physical, profile
Instrument types: bathythermograph - XBT
Datatypes: DEPTH - SENSOR, WATER TEMPERATURE
Submitter: Kinnard, Joyce G.
Submitting institution: US DOC; NOAA; National Ocean Service
Collecting institutions: US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Contributing projects: SEAS
Platforms: AMERICA STAR (BHAJ), ARGENTINA STAR (BHAR), BORINGIA (746B), COLUMBUS FLORIDA (06CH), ENDEAVOR (33EN), ENDURANCE (33EU), ENTERPRISE (32E3), HANSEWALL (AGHA), MELBOURNE STAR (BHAQ), NACRE (PANA), NOLIZWE (74NO), OLEANDER (32OD), POLYNESIA (54PA), ROSSEL CURRENT (SVRC), SEA-LAND DEFENDER (320F), SEA-LAND PACIFIC (328Q), SELFOSS (SISF), TAI HE (76TA)
Number of observations: 1425
Supplementary information: These data are processed and incorporated into the Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Programme (GTSPP) database.
Availability date:
Metadata version: 13
Keydate: 2001-04-16 04:00:00+00
Editdate: 2023-10-16 21:36:07+00