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Title: Temperature profiles from XBT casts from the KNORR and other platforms as part of the International Decade of Ocean Exploration / International Ocean Studies / First Dynamic Response and Kinematics Experiment in the Drake Passage (IDOE/ISOS/FDRAKE) from 1978-09-18 to 1982-10-13 (NCEI Accession 8300006)
Abstract: Temperature profiles were collected from XBT casts from the KNORR and other platforms from 18 September 1978 to 13 October 1982. Data were collected by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) as part of the International Decade of Ocean Exploration / International Ocean Studies / First Dynamic Response and Kinematics Experiment in the Drake Passage (IDOE/ISOS/FDRAKE). Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard Universal Bathythermograph Output (UBT) format.

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 either 450 or 760 m. Special instruments permit measurements to be obtained to 1830 m.
Date received: 19830107
Start date: 19780918
End date: 19821013
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West boundary: 169.883333
East boundary: -60.333333
North boundary: 41.2
South boundary: -64.852222
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Submitting institution: US DOC; NOAA; NMFS; Northeast Fisheries Science Center; Woods Hole Laboratory
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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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Contact info:
Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE - WOODS HOLE
PI: N/A
Address:
address: 166 WATER STREET
city: WOODS HOLE
state: MA
postal: 02543
country: UNITED STATES
Availability date: 19830107
Metadata version: 9
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:33:00+00
Editdate: 2022-08-07 11:30:34+00