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Title: Oceanographic station data from bottle casts from the SPENCER from Ocean Weather Station C (OWS-C) in the North Atlantic Ocean 01 August 1968 to 23 August 1968 (NODC Accession 6800277)
Abstract: Oceanographic station data were collected from the SPENCER within a 1-mile radius of Ocean Weather Station C (5245N 03530W) and in transit. Data were collected by the United States Coast Guard (USCG) from 01 August 1968 to 23 August 1968. Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard Station Data II Output Format (SD2). Full format description is available from NODC at www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-Archive/sd2.html.

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 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: 19681212
Start date: 19680801
End date: 19680823
Seanames:
West boundary: -46.166667
East boundary: -35.1
North boundary: 53.033333
South boundary: 47.333333
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Instrument types:
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Submitter:
Submitting institution: United States Coast Guard
Collecting institutions:
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Number of observations: 15
Supplementary information: The publication listed below is related to the data collection and is available from the NOAA Central Library.

Oceanographic observations, North Atlantic standard monitoring sections A1, A2, A3, and A4, 1967-1968. Washington, D.C. : United States Coast Guard, Oceanographic Unit, 1971.

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, the NODC reviews metadata for all accessions on an ongoing basis. Metadata were updated in July of 2007.

Points of contact for this data set 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: 19681212
Metadata version: 4
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:29:10+00
Editdate: 2018-10-30 19:16:48+00