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OAS accession Detail for 7900139, meta_version: 3. Current meta_version is: 5
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| Title: | Temperature profile collected using BT and XBT casts from NOAA Ship RESEARCHER in the Gulf of Mexico from 1978-08-18 to 1979-01-14 (NCEI Accession 7900139) |
| Abstract: | Temperature profile data were collected using BT and XBT casts from NOAA Ship RESEARCHER in the Gulf of Mexico from 18 August 1978 to 14 January 1979. Data were submitted by Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Miami, Florida with support from the Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) 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 file format is used for temperature-depth profile data obtained using expendable bathythermograph (XBT) instruments. Standard XBTs can obtain profiles at depths of about 450 or 760 m. With special instruments, measurements can be obtained to 1830 m. Cruise information, position, date, and time are reported for each observation. The data record comprises pairs of temperature-depth values. Unlike the MBT data file, in which temperature values are recorded at uniform 5m intervals, the XBT Data File contains temperature values at non-uniform depths. These depths are at a minimum number of points ("inflection points") required to record the temperature curve to an acceptable degree of accuracy. On output, however, the user may request temperature values either at inflection points or interpolated to uniform depth increments. |
| Date received: | 19790314 |
| Start date: | 19780818 |
| End date: | 19790114 |
| Seanames: | Gulf of Mexico |
| West boundary: | -88.88 |
| East boundary: | -83.3 |
| North boundary: | 29.25 |
| South boundary: | 24.5 |
| Observation types: | physical, profile |
| Instrument types: | bathythermograph - BT, bathythermograph - XBT |
| Datatypes: | water depth, WATER TEMPERATURE |
| Submitter: | |
| Submitting institution: | US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory |
| Collecting institutions: | US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory |
| Contributing projects: | OTEC |
| Platforms: | Researcher (3175) |
| 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, NCEI reviews metadata for all accessions on an ongoing basis. Points of contact for this data set include: Contact info: Agency: US DOC; NOAA; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY; ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY - MIAMI FL PI: N/A Address: address: 4301 RICKENBACKER CAUSEWAY city: MIAMI state: FL postal: 33149-1026 country: UNITED STATES |
| Availability date: | 19790314 |
| Metadata version: | 3 |
| Keydate: | 2003-10-24 17:28:31+00 |
| Editdate: | 2020-04-07 21:09:26+00 |