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Title: Cloud amount/frequency, NITRATE and other data from USNS SILAS BENT, USNS WILKES and other platforms from 1964-06-15 to 1972-10-15 (NCEI Accession 7200000)
Abstract: Data has been processed by NODC to the NODC standard Bathythermograph (MBT) (C128) format.

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: 19721231
Start date: 19640615
End date: 19721015
Seanames:
West boundary: 58.17
East boundary: 22.53
North boundary: 60.1
South boundary: -64.38
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Submitter:
Submitting institution: Fisheries Research Board of Canada; Arctic Unit
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Number of observations:
Supplementary information: 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:
Contact info:
Agency: FISHERIES RESEARCH BOARD OF CANADA; ARCTIC UNIT
PI: N/A
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: MONTREAL
state: NOT AVAILABLE
postal: NOT AVAILABLE
country: CANADA
Contact info:
Agency: DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY; INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY
PI: 1055
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: HALIFAX
state: NOVA SCOTIA
postal: NOT AVAILABLE
country: CANADA
Contact info:
Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER
Address:
Contact info:
Agency: JAPANESE HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE
Address:
address: 5-3-1 TSUKUJI, CHUO-KU
city: TOKYO
state: NOT AVAILABLE
postal: 104
country: JAPAN
Contact info:
Agency: NEW ZEALAND OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: WELLINGTON
state: NOT AVAILABLE
postal: NOT AVAILABLE
country: NEW ZEALAND
Availability date: 19721231
Metadata version: 8
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:16:43+00
Editdate: 2022-10-06 11:31:21+00