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Title: Temperature profile and other data collected using bottle and CTD casts from the A. AGASSIZ and other platforms from a world-wide distribution during the California Cooperative Fisheries Investigation (CALCOFI) project, 1969-01-06 to 1977-07-27 (NCEI Accession 8000006)
Abstract: Oceanographic Station Data, temperature, and other data were collected using CTD and bottle casts from A. AGASSIZ and other platforms in a world-wide distribution from January 6, 1969 to July 27, 1977. Data were submitted by Scripps Institution of Oceanography as part of the California Cooperative Fisheries Investigation (CALCOFI) project. Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard Oceanographic Station Data (SD2) and the Universal Bathythermograph Output (UBT) formats. Full format descriptions are available at 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 are 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.
Date received: 19800123
Start date: 19690106
End date: 19770727
Seanames: Arafura Sea, Banda Sea, Celebes Sea (Sulawesi Sea and Mindanao Sea), Ceram Sea or Seram Sea, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, Molucca Sea, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, North Pacific Ocean, Philippine Sea, Sulu Sea, Timor Sea
West boundary: 121.61
East boundary: -112.32
North boundary: 41.72
South boundary: -8.88
Observation types: physical, profile
Instrument types: bottle, CTD
Datatypes: BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, NITRATE, NITRITE, OXYGEN, pH, phosphate, SALINITY, SIGMA-T, silicate, SOUND VELOCITY, WATER TEMPERATURE, WAVE DIRECTION, WAVE PERIOD, WIND DIRECTION, WIND SPEED
Submitter:
Submitting institution: University of California - San Diego; Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Collecting institutions: University of California - San Diego; Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Contributing projects: CALCOFI
Platforms: ALEXANDER AGASSIZ (31AX), David Starr Jordan (31JD), Miller Freeman (31FN), Thomas Washington (31WT)
Number of observations:
Supplementary information: The publication listed below is related to the data collection and is available from the NOAA Central Library:

Physical, chemical and biological data, INDOPAC Expedition : Leg 1, 23 March to 30 April 1976; Leg II, 5 to 19 May 1976; Leg III, 25 May to 19 June 1976; Leg VII, 14 to 29 August 1976; Leg VIII, 2 to 30 September 1976; Leg XV, 3 to 30 June 1977; Leg XVI, 5 to 31 July 1977. [La Jolla, Calif.] : The Institution, [1978].

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).

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Contact info:
Agency: SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY
PI: N/A
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: LA JOLLA
state: CA
postal: 92093-0955
country: UNITED STATES
Availability date: 19800123
Metadata version: 12
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:29:05+00
Editdate: 2022-07-26 13:09:56+00