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Title: Real-Time XBT Data assembled by US NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) for the Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Programme (GTSPP) and submitted 03/31/2008 - 04/06/2008 (NCEI Accession 0040146)
Abstract: These data represent 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 Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) on a weekly basis.
Date received: 20080406
Start date: 20080331
End date: 20080406
Seanames: North Atlantic Ocean, North Pacific Ocean, Philippine Sea, South Atlantic Ocean, South Pacific Ocean
West boundary: 122.471
East boundary: -2.245
North boundary: 50.134
South boundary: -53.828
Observation types: physical, profile, time series
Instrument types: bathythermograph - XBT
Datatypes: WATER TEMPERATURE
Submitter: Chinn, Paul
Submitting institution: US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Collecting institutions: US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Contributing projects: SEAS
Platforms: HANSA FLENSBURG (54DC), Horizon Hawk (33H2), Horizon Tiger (33KN), JOSEPHINE MAERSK (26JM), Nathaniel B. Palmer (3206), OLEANDER (32OD), SAFMARINE GONUBIE (06SB), ZAMBEZE (35BQ)
Number of observations: 233
Supplementary information: These data are processed and incorporated into the Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Programme (GTSPP) database.
Availability date:
Metadata version: 7
Keydate: 2008-03-31 11:10:51+00
Editdate: 2022-05-22 19:13:34+00