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Title: Temperature profile and other data collected using bottle and CTD casts from the HMAS DERWENT and other platforms from a world-wide distribution from 1904-08-03 to 1964-12-31 (NCEI Accession 6400000)
Abstract: Oceanographic Station Data, temperature, and other data were collected using CTD and bottle casts from HMAS DERWENT and other platforms in a world-wide distribution from August 3, 1904 to December 31, 1964. 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) formats.

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: 19641231
Start date: 19040803
End date: 19641231
Seanames:
West boundary: 105.83
East boundary: 100.32
North boundary: 81.53
South boundary: -77.9
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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.

Oceanographic observations, North Atlantic Ocean Station Bravo 56 degrees 30'N., 51 degrees 00'W., January-April 1964. Washington, D.C. : United States Coast Guard, Oceanographic Unit, 1965.

Oceanographic observations, North Atlantic Ocean Station Bravo, 56 degrees 30'N., 51 degrees 00'W., August 1964-August 1965. Washington, D.C. : United States Coast Guard, Oceanographic Unit, 1967.

Oceanographic observations, North Atlantic standard monitoring sections, 1964-1966. Washington, D.C. : United States Coast Guard, Oceanographic Unit, 1969.

Oceanographic observations, North Atlantic Ocean Station Charlie, 52 degrees 45'N., 35 degrees 30'W., June 1964-January 1965. Washington, D.C. : United States Coast Guard, Oceanographic Unit, 1966.

Oceanographic observations, North Pacific Ocean Station Victor, 34 degrees 00' N., 164 degrees 00' E., December 1964-August 1966. Washington, D.C. : United States Coast Guard, Oceanographic Unit, 1968.

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

Physical, chemical, and biological data from the northeast Pacific Ocean : Columbia River effluent area, 1964. [Seattle, Wash. : University of Washington, Dept. of Oceanography], 1966.

Final cruise report, Anton Bruun cruise 5 : oceanographic data, bathythermograph positions, station lists for biological collections. Woods Hole, Mass. : Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, 1965.

Final cruise report, Anton Bruun cruise 6 : oceanographic data, bathythermograph positions, station lists for biological collections. Woods Hole, Mass. : Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1965.

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.

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Points of contact for this dataset include:
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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
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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: SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY
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address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: LA JOLLA
state: CA
postal: 92093-0955
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: 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
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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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Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER
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Availability date: 19641231
Metadata version: 24
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:25:31+00
Editdate: 2024-10-16 11:39:39+00