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| Title: | Oceanographic station, temperature profiles, meteorological, and other data from XBT and bottle casts from the DOLPHIN and other platforms as part of the Marine Resources Monitoring, Assessment and Prediction (MARMAP) project from 15 May 1973 to 27 May 1973 (NODC Accession No. - 7400065) |
| Abstract: | Oceanographic station, temperature profiles, meteorological, and other data were collected from bottle and XBT casts from the DOLPHIN and other platforms from 15 May 1973 to 27 May 1973. Data were collected by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) as part of the Marine Resources Monitoring, Assessment and Prediction (MARMAP) project. Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard Oceanographic Station Data (SD2) and Universal bathythermograph Output (UBT)formats. Full format
descriptions are available from the NODC homepage at www.nodc.noaa.gov/. The Oceanographic Station Data 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. The UBT format contains temperature-depth profile data obtained using expendable bathythermograph (XBT) instruments. Cruise information, position, date and time were reported for each observation. The data records are comprised of pairs of temperature-depth values. The XBT data files contain temperature values at non-uniform depths. These depths were recorded at the minimum number of points (''''inflection points'''') required to accurately define the temperature curve. Standard XBTs can obtain profiles to depths of 450 m or 760 m. Special instruments permitted measurements to 1830 m. |
| Date received: | 19740118 |
| Start date: | 19730515 |
| End date: | 19730527 |
| Seanames: | |
| West boundary: | -81.1 |
| East boundary: | -75 |
| North boundary: | 34 |
| South boundary: | 30 |
| Observation types: | physical, profile, visual observation |
| Instrument types: | bathythermograph - BT, bathythermograph - XBT, bottle, meteorological sensor |
| Datatypes: | AIR TEMPERATURE - DRY BULB, AIR TEMPERATURE - WET BULB, DISSOLVED OXYGEN, DYNAMIC DEPTH ANOMALY, NITRATE, NITRITE, OXYGEN, OXYGEN - DISSOLVED GAS, SALINITY, SIGMA-T, silicate, SOUND VELOCITY, TEMPERATURE - WATER, WATER TEMPERATURE, WEATHER, WIND DIRECTION, WIND SPEED |
| Submitter: | Doyle, Ms. Nancy S. |
| Submitting institution: | US DOC; NOAA; NMFS; Southeast Regional Office; Habitat Conservation Division; Atlantic Branch |
| Collecting institutions: | US DOC; NOAA; NMFS; Southeast Regional Office; Habitat Conservation Division; Atlantic Branch |
| Contributing projects: | MARMAP |
| Platforms: | DOLPHIN (31DP) |
| 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. To develop more accurate metadata, the NODC reviews metadata for all accessions on an ongoing basis. Points of contact for this data set include: Contact info: Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE - CHARLESTON PI: Doyle, Ms. Nancy Address: address: 217 FORT JOHNSON ROAD city: CHARLESTON state: SC postal: 29412 country: UNITED STATES |
| Availability date: | 19740118 |
| Metadata version: | 1 |
| Keydate: | 2003-10-24 17:19:44+00 |
| Editdate: | 2006-12-15 14:52:59+00 |