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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 during the California Cooperative Fisheries Investigation (CALCOFI) project, 04 October 1903 to 19 December 1963 (NODC 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 as part of the California Cooperative Fisheries Investigation (CALCOFI) project. Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard Oceanographic Station Data (SD2) and the Universal Bathythermograph Output (UBT) formats. Full format descriptions are available at nodc.noaa.gov/.

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 and 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.
Date received: 19631231
Start date: 19031004
End date: 19631219
Seanames: World-Wide Distribution
West boundary: -176.5
East boundary: 165.1
North boundary: 82.9
South boundary: -78.2
Observation types: physical, profile
Instrument types: bathythermograph - MBT, bottle, CTD
Datatypes: AIR TEMPERATURE - WET BULB, BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, cloud amount/frequency, cloud type, DYNAMIC DEPTH ANOMALY, NITRATE, NITRITE, OXYGEN, pH, phosphate, PHOSPHORUS - TOTAL, PRESSURE - BAROMETRIC, SALINITY, SEA STATE, SIGMA-T, silicate, SOUND VELOCITY, WEATHER, WIND DIRECTION
Submitter: Searle, Mr. Ben J.
Submitting institution: Royal Australian Navy
Collecting institutions: Columbia University; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Royal Australian Navy, University of California San Diego; Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of Washington, Unknown - Canada, Unknown - Congo, Unknown - Denmark, Unknown - France, Unknown - Iceland, Unknown - India, Unknown - Indonesia, Unknown - Ivory Coast, Unknown - Japan, Unknown - Mexico, Unknown - Nigeria, Unknown - Norway, Unknown - Peru, Unknown - South Africa, Unknown - Spain, Unknown - Taiwan, Unknown - United Kingdom, Unknown - USA, Unknown - USSR, Russia, Unknown - Venezuela, US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; National Oceanographic Data Center, US Navy; Ships of Opportunity, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Contributing projects: CalCOFI, STATION S
Platforms: ACONA (31AC), AEGIR (46AE), ALEXANDER AGASSIZ (31AX), ALTAIR (57AL), ANTON BRUUN (31AO), ARGO (31AR), Atlantis (31AT), ATLANTIS II (31AN), BIOLOGEN (26BI), BIOMAR I (93BI), BLACK DOUGLAS (31BD), BONDY (65BO), BROWN BEAR (31BB), CASCO (31CS), CHAIN (31CI), CHOFU MARU (49TU), COMMANDANT ROBERT GIRAUD (35CG), CRAWFORD (31CF), DANA (26DA), DISCOVERY (74DI), Duane (31DU), Edisto (31ED), ELTANIN (31ET), ENU GU (NIEN), Evergreen (31EV), Explorer (31EX), George B. Kelez (31KE), GERONIMO (31GN), HEIAN-MARU (49HN), HELLAND HANSEN (58HH), Henderson (31E9), HOH (31OH), HOKUSEI-MARU (49HO), HORIZON (31HO), H. U. SVERDRUP (58SD), ICE ISLAND (31T3), ISHIKARI (49IK), JALANIDHI (42JA), J. E. PILLSBURY (31JP), KAIYO-MARU NO 4 (49K4), KEITEN-MARU (49EK), KIARA (NIKI), KISTNA (41KI), KOFU MARU (49KF), KUROSHIO MARU (49KR), KUZURYU (49KU), LITTLEHALES (31LI), MALASPINA (29MA), MARIN (57MA), MEIYO-MARU (49ME), MIKHAIL LOMONOSOV (90ML), MIURA (49MU), NATAL (91NA), NORTHWIND (31NW), OLONETS (90OL), OMBANGO (RCOM), OSHORO MARU (49OS), PANULIRUS (31PL), Parramatta (09PA), Pioneer (31PI), Prevail (31PR), REBUN (49RE), Rehoboth (31RH), REINE POKOU (ICRP), Reliance (31RE), RYOFU MARU (49RY), SAN PABLO (31SP), SATSUMA (49ST), Serrano (31SR), SHUMPU MARU (49SU), Surveyor (31SU), TAKUYO (49TK), TANNER (31TN), UNKNOWN PLATFORMS OF CANADA (1899), UNKNOWN PLATFORMS OF DENMARK (2699), VARUNA (41VA), YANG MING 362 (21YM), Yarra (09YA), ZVEZDA (90ZV)
Number of observations:
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. (NOAA Library catalog link, last accessed on 13 January 2009 at Physical, chemical and biological observations in the Sargasso Sea off Bermuda, 1960 - 1963).

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]. (NOAA Library catalog link, last accessed on March 11 2009 at Distribution of physical-chemical properties and tabulations of station data, Washington and British Columbia coasts, October-November 1963).

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Points of contact for this data set include:
Contact info:
Agency: AUSTRALIAN NAVY
PI: Searle, Mr. Ben
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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
Address:
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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
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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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Availability date: 19631231
Metadata version: 5
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:24:39+00
Editdate: 2009-03-11 16:33:35+00