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Title: Temperature profile and other data collected using bottle and CTD casts from the PARRAMATTA and other platforms in a world-wide distribution from 1903-10-04 to 1963-12-19 (NCEI Accession 6300000)
Abstract: Oceanographic Station Data, temperature, and other data were collected using CTD and bottle casts from PARRAMATTA and other platforms in a world-wide distribution from October 4, 1903 to December 19, 1963. Data were submitted by Australia Navy. Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard Oceanographic Station Data (SD2) and the NODC standard Bathythermograph (MBT) (C128) format.

The Oceanographic Station Data format contains physical-chemical oceanographic data recorded at discrete depth levels. Most of the observations were made using multi-bottle Nansen casts or other types of water samplers. A small amount (about 5 percent) were obtained using electronic CTD (conductivity-temperature-depth) or STD (salinity-temperature-depth) recorders. The CTD/STD data were reported to NODC at depth levels equivalent to Nansen cast data, however, and have been processed and stored the same as the Nansen data. Cruise information (e.g., ship, country, institution), position, date, and time, and reported for each station. The principal measured parameters are temperature and salinity, but dissolved oxygen, phosphate, total phosphorus, silicate, nitrate, nitrite, and pH may be reported. Meteorological conditions at the time of the cast (e.g., air temperature and pressure, wind, waves) may also be reported, as well as auxiliary data such as water color (Forel-Ule scale), water transparency (Secchi disk depth), and depth to bottom. Values of density (sigma-t) sound velocity, and dynamic depth anomaly are computed from measured parameters. Each station contains the measurements taken at the observed depth levels, but also includes data values interpolated to a set of standard depth levels.

The C128 format is used for temperature-depth profile data obtained using the mechanical bathythermograph (MBT) instrument. The maximum depth of MBT observations is approximately 285 m. Therefore, MBT data are useful only in studying the thermal structure of the upper layers of the ocean. Cruise information, date, position, and time are reported for each observation. The data record comprises pairs of temperature-depth values. Temperature data in this file are recorded at uniform 5 m depth intervals.
Date received: 19631231
Start date: 19031004
End date: 19631219
Seanames:
West boundary: 19.76
East boundary: 15.75
North boundary: 82.87
South boundary: -78.12
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Submitter: Searle, Mr. Ben J.
Submitting institution: Royal Australian Navy
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Supplementary information: The publication(s) listed below are related to the data collection and are available from the NOAA Central Library:

J. H. Ryther and D. W. Menzel, Physical, Chemical, and Biological Observations in the Sargasso Sea off Bermuda, 1960-1963. Woods Hole, Mass. : Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1964.

Final cruise report, Anton Bruun Cruise I, V. 1. Woods Hole, Mass.: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1964.

Final cruise report, Anton Bruun cruise 2 : oceanographic data, bathythermograph positions, station lists for biological collections. Woods Hole, Mass. : Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1964.

Distribution of physical-chemical properties and tabulations of station data, Washington and British Columbia coasts, October-November 1963. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, [1967].

Oceanographic observations south of Adak Island, summer 1963. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Commercial Fisheries ; [1966].

North Pacific oceanography, February-March 1963. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, [1964].

Oceanographic observations, North Atlantic Ocean Station Delta, 44 degrees N 41 degrees W, March-April 1963. Washington, D.C. : United States Coast Guard, Oceanographic Unit, 1964.

The results of marine meteorological and oceanographical observations. [Tokyo] : Central Meteorological Observatory of Japan, 1950-.

Oceanographic cruise, USCGC Northwind, Chukchi, East Siberian and Laptev seas, August-September 1963. Washington, D.C. : United States Coast Guard, Oceanographic Unit, 1965.

Oceanographic observations, Kennedy Channel, Kane Basin, Smith Sound and Baffin Bay, summer 1963. Washington, D.C. : United States Coast Guard, Oceanographic Unit, 1964.

Oceanographic observations, North Atlantic Ocean Station Echo, 35 degrees N 48 degrees W, January-February 1963. Washington, D.C. : United States Coast Guard, Oceanographic Unit, 1964.

A report concerning data obtained July 1963-June 1964. Miami, Fla. : Institute of Marine Science, Marine Laboratory, University of Miami, [1965].

Oceanographic observations, tropical Atlantic Ocean, Equalant II, August 1963. Washington, D.C. : United States Coast Guard, Oceanographic Unit, 1964.

Preliminary cruise report Atlantis II, cruise 8, International Indian Ocean Expedition, July 5, 1963-December 20, 1963. Woods Hole, Mass. : Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1963.

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 dataset include:
Contact info:
Agency: AUSTRALIAN NAVY
PI: Searle, Mr. Ben
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: NOT AVAILABLE
state: NOT AVAILABLE
postal: NOT AVAILABLE
country: AUSTRALIA
Contact info:
Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER
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Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER
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Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER
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Contact info:
Agency: SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: LA JOLLA
state: CA
postal: 92093-0955
country: UNITED STATES
Contact info:
Agency: WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: WOODS HOLE
state: MA
postal: 02543
country: UNITED STATES
Contact info:
Agency: US NAVY; SHIPS OF OPPORTUNITY
Address:
address: 4640 JEWEL ST., 204
city: SAN DIEGO
state: CA
postal: 92109-31331
country: UNITED STATES
Contact info:
Agency: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON - SEATTLE
Address:
address: MARINE SCIENCES BUILDING
city: SEATTLE
state: WA
postal: 98195
country: UNITED STATES
Contact info:
Agency: LAMONT-DOHERTY EARTH OBSERVATORY
Address:
address: ROUTE 9W
city: PALISADES
state: NY
postal: 10964
country: UNITED STATES
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Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER
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Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER
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Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER
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Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER
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Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER
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Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER
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Contact info:
Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER
Address:
Contact info:
Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER
Address:
Contact info:
Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER
Address:
Contact info:
Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER
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Contact info:
Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER
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Contact info:
Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER
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Availability date: 19631231
Metadata version: 34
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:24:39+00
Editdate: 2024-10-16 11:36:02+00