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Title: Water temperature profiles collected by XBT from multiple cruises in the North Pacific and South Pacific oceans from 1997-01-01 to 1999-01-08 (NCEI Accession 0000006)
Abstract: Water temperature profiles collected by XBT in support of the High Resolution XBT Network in 1997-1998. The cruises, ship names (and callsigns) include
p09 (px6,px9,px39): Brisbane Star (C6LY4) and Argentina Star (C6MD8)
p22 (ax22): Polar Duke, Nathaniel B. Palmer and L.M. Gould (WCX7445)
p31 (px31): Fua Kavenga (A3CA)
p37 (px37,px10,px44): Sea-Land Enterprise (KRGB)
p38 (px38): Chevron Mississippi (WXBR)
p50 (px50): Asian Challenger (VRSR) and Lydia Oldendorff (ELVH7)
p81 (px81): Nacre (3EZI6)

Documentation is included.
Date received: 20000113
Start date: 19970101
End date: 19990108
Seanames:
West boundary: 120.176
East boundary: -57.263
North boundary: 59.674
South boundary: -64.97
Observation types:
Instrument types:
Datatypes:
Submitter: Lehmann, Lisa
Submitting institution: University of California San Diego; Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Collecting institutions:
Contributing projects:
Platforms:
Number of observations: 9752
Supplementary information: Note this data set used Sippican Deep Blue XBT's using the old fall rate coefficients: a=6.472, b=-2.16 and a Sippican mk12 controller board.
Availability date:
Metadata version: 8
Keydate: 2001-04-16 04:00:00+00
Editdate: 2024-09-01 13:07:13+00