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Title: Temperature profiles from XBT casts from the BLUENOSE and other platforms as part of the Marine Resources Monitoring, Assessment and Prediction (MARMAP) project from 1977-04-01 to 1977-05-19 (NCEI Accession 7700426)
Abstract: Temperature profiles were collected from XBT casts from the BLUENOSE and other platforms from 01 April 1977 to 19 May 1977. 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 Universal bathythermograph Output (UBT) format. Full format description is available from NODC at www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-Archive/bt.html.

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: 19770601
Start date: 19770401
End date: 19770519
Seanames: North Atlantic Ocean, Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary
West boundary: -73.566667
East boundary: -66.183333
North boundary: 44.266667
South boundary: 35.733333
Observation types: physical, profile
Instrument types: bathythermograph - BT, bathythermograph - XBT
Datatypes: water depth, WATER TEMPERATURE
Submitter:
Submitting institution: US DOC; NOAA; NMFS; Northeast Fisheries Science Center; Narragansett Laboratory
Collecting institutions: US DOC; NOAA; NMFS; Northeast Fisheries Science Center; Narragansett Laboratory
Contributing projects: MARMAP
Platforms: BLUENOSE (32BL), CARIBOU REEFER (32OU), CRUSADER (32RU), ENDEAVOR (32EV)
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 data set include:
Contact info:
Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE - NARRAGANSETT
PI: N/A
Address:
address: 28 TARZWELL DRIVE
city: NARRAGANSETT
state: RI
postal: 02882
country: UNITED STATES
Availability date: 19770601
Metadata version: 8
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:25:47+00
Editdate: 2020-04-07 15:48:20+00