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Title: Oceanographic station data from bottle casts from the CAMPBELL and other platforms from multiple Ocean Weather Station (OWS) in the North Atlantic Ocean and North Pacific Ocean 1968-12-16 to 1969-01-20 (NCEI Accession 6900569)
Abstract: Oceanographic station data were collected from the CAMPBELL, CHAUTAUQUA, and DALLAS within a 1-mile radius of Ocean Weather Station B (5630N 05100W), C (5245N 03530W), D (4400N 04100W), E (3500N 04800W), V (3400N 16400E), and in transit. Data were collected by the United States Coast Guard (USCG) from 16 December 1968 to 20 January 1969. 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: 19690718
Start date: 19681216
End date: 19690120
Seanames: Labrador Sea, North Atlantic Ocean, North Pacific Ocean
West boundary: 163.95
East boundary: -40.083333
North boundary: 56.566667
South boundary: 33.966667
Observation types: physical, profile
Instrument types: bottle, meteorological sensor
Datatypes: BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, cloud amount/frequency, cloud types, SALINITY, SIGMA-T, SOUND VELOCITY, water depth, 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: Campbell (31CM), Chautauqua (31CQ), Dallas (31DG)
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 1971. Washington, D.C. : United States Coast Guard, Oceanographic Unit, 1973.

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: 19690718
Metadata version: 9
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:30:42+00
Editdate: 2022-08-06 02:25:54+00