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OAS accession Detail for 6800003
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| Title: | Oceanographic station data from bottle casts from the HALF MOON from Ocean Weather Station B (OWS-B) in the North Atlantic Ocean 1968-04-24 to 1968-05-15 (NCEI Accession 6800003) |
| Abstract: | Oceanographic station data were collected from the HALF MOON within a 1-mile radius of Ocean Weather Station B (5630N 05100W) and in transit. Data were collected by the United States Coast Guard (USCG) from 24 April 1968 to 15 May 1968. Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard Station Data II Output Format (SD2). The SD2 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. |
| Date received: | 19681010 |
| Start date: | 19680424 |
| End date: | 19680515 |
| Seanames: | Labrador Sea, North Atlantic Ocean |
| West boundary: | -51.233333 |
| East boundary: | -50.916667 |
| North boundary: | 56.616667 |
| South boundary: | 56.4 |
| Observation types: | physical, profile |
| Instrument types: | bottle, meteorological sensor |
| Datatypes: | AIR TEMPERATURE - DRY BULB, AIR TEMPERATURE - WET BULB, BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, cloud amount/frequency, cloud type, OXYGEN, SALINITY, SIGMA-T, SOUND VELOCITY, WATER TEMPERATURE, WAVE DIRECTION, WAVE HEIGHT, WAVE PERIOD, WIND DIRECTION, WIND SPEED |
| Submitter: | |
| Submitting institution: | United States Coast Guard |
| Collecting institutions: | United States Coast Guard |
| Contributing projects: | OCEAN WEATHER STATION |
| Platforms: | HALF MOON (31HM) |
| Number of observations: | |
| Supplementary information: | The publication(s) listed below are related to the data collection and are available from the NOAa Central Library: North Atlantic Ocean Station Bravo, 14 November 1967-16 November 1969. Washington, D.C. : United States Coast Guard, Oceanographic Unit, [1974]. Light vessel/light station oceanographic observations, east coast of the United States, January-December 1972. Washington, D.C. : United States Coast Guard, Oceanographic Unit, 1974. Note: Preliminary 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). To develop more accurate metadata, NCEI reviews metadata for all accessions on an ongoing basis. Metadata were updated in July of 2007. Points of contact for this dataset include: Contact info: Agency: US COAST GUARD PI: N/A Address: address: NOT AVAILABLE city: GROTON state: CT postal: 06340 country: UNITED STATES |
| Availability date: | 19681010 |
| Metadata version: | 11 |
| Keydate: | 2003-10-24 17:28:49+00 |
| Editdate: | 2022-08-06 01:49:15+00 |