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Title: Historical temperature and salinity data collected from 1896-04-22 to 1961-03-26 from the World Ocean and provided by United Kingdom hydrographic office (NODC Accession 0073673)
Abstract: Historical temperature and salinity data collected from 1896-04-22 to 1961-03-26 from the World Ocean. Data were digitized from cards provided by United Kingdom hydrographic office. Dataset includes data collected during around-the-world voyage conducted by USA submarine USS Triton.
Date received: 20110531
Start date: 18960422
End date: 19610326
Seanames: World-Wide Distribution
West boundary: -179.883
East boundary: 157.533
North boundary: 49.267
South boundary: 0
Observation types: physical, profile
Instrument types: bottle
Datatypes: SALINITY, WATER TEMPERATURE
Submitter: Levitus, Sydney
Submitting institution: United Kingdom Hydrographic Office
Collecting institutions: Unknown - United Kingdom, Unknown - USA
Contributing projects: GODAR
Platforms: MULTIPLE SHIPS (ZZ90)
Number of observations: 2239
Supplementary information:
Availability date:
Metadata version: 5
Keydate: 2011-06-16 13:50:32+00
Editdate: 2014-12-01 20:21:48+00