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Title: WATER TEMPERATURE and other data from QUAPPELLE, SASKATCHEWAN and other platforms in the NW Atlantic from 1973-09-07 to 1985-03-08 (NCEI Accession 8500188)
Abstract: Data has been processed by NODC to the NODC standard Bathythermograph (XBT) (C116) format.

The C116/C118 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 record was comprised of pairs of temperature-depth values. Unlike the MBT Data File, in which temperature values were recorded at uniform 5 m intervals, the XBT data files contained 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. With special instruments, measurements can be obtained to 1830 m. Prior to July 1994, XBT data were routinely processed to one of these standard types. XBT data are now processed and loaded directly in to the NODC Ocean Profile Data Base (OPDB). Historic data from these two data types were loaded into the OPDB.
Date received: 19850909
Start date: 19730907
End date: 19850308
Seanames: Alboran Sea, Baltic Sea, Bay of Fundy, Bering Sea, Caribbean Sea, Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia, Davis Strait, English Channel (La Manche), Gulf of St. Lawrence, Gulf of Thailand, Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland, Ionian Sea, Irish Sea and St. George's Channel, Kattegat, The Sound, Storebælt, Lillebælt, Labrador Sea, Ligurian Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin, Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin, North Atlantic Ocean, North Pacific Ocean, North Sea, Norwegian Sea, Philippine Sea, Skagerrak, South China Sea (Nan Hai), Tyrrhenian Sea
West boundary: 100.48
East boundary: 22.9
North boundary: 68.38
South boundary: 1.62
Observation types: physical, profile
Instrument types: bathythermograph - BT, bathythermograph - XBT
Datatypes: water depth, WATER TEMPERATURE
Submitter:
Submitting institution: St. Andrews Biological Station
Collecting institutions: Atlantic Research Institute of Fishing Economy and Oceanography, Canadian Centre for Inland Waters; Bayfield Laboratory, Canadian Forces Maritime Command - East, Canadian Forces Maritime Command - West, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Fisheries Management Resources Branch, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre, St. Andrews Biological Station
Contributing projects:
Platforms: Alfred Needler (18NE), ALGONQUIN (18AQ), ANNAPOLIS (18AO), ARGUS (90A3), ASSINIBOINE (18AE), A. T. CAMERON (18AT), ATHABASKAN (18AH), ATKINSON (18AS), Brandal (18BR), E. E. PRINCE (18PE), EKLIPTIKA (90EL), FRASER (18FR), GADUS ATLANTICA (18GA), GATINEAU (18GU), G. B. Reed (18RB), IROQUOIS (18IS), KOOTENAY (18KN), LADY HAMMOND (18LH), MACKENZIE (18MK), MARGAREE (18MG), NIPIGON (18NN), OTTAWA (18OT), PROVIDER (18PO), QUAPPELLE (18QP), RESTIGOUCHE (18RE), SASKATCHEWAN (18SH), SHAMOOK (18OK), SKEENA (18S2), ST. BARNABE (18BS), UNKNOWN PLATFORMS OF CANADA (1899), YUKON (18UK)
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: ST. ANDREWS BIOLOGICAL STATION
PI: N/A
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: ST. ANDREWS
state: NEW BRUNSWICK
postal: NOT AVAILABLE
country: CANADA
Contact info:
Agency: NORTHWEST ATLANTIC FISHERIES CENTER
PI: 127
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: ST. JOHN'S
state: NEWFOUNDLAND
postal: NOT AVAILABLE
country: CANADA
Contact info:
Agency: CANADIAN FORCES MARITIME COMMAND - EAST
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: HALIFAX
state: NOVA SCOTIA
postal: B3K 2,X0
country: CANADA
Contact info:
Agency: CANADIAN FORCES MARITIME COMMAND - WEST
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: NOT AVAILABLE
state: NOT AVAILABLE
postal: NOT AVAILABLE
country: CANADA
Contact info:
Agency: DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES AND OCEANS
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: QUEBEC CITY
state: NOT AVAILABLE
postal: NOT AVAILABLE
country: CANADA
Contact info:
Agency: DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES AND OCEANS; FISHERIES MANAGEMENT RESOURCES BRANCH
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: NOT AVAILABLE
state: NOT AVAILABLE
postal: NOT AVAILABLE
country: CANADA
Contact info:
Agency: CANADIAN CENTER FOR INLAND WATERS; BAYFIELD LABORATORY
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: BURLINGTON
state: NOT AVAILABLE
postal: NOT AVAILABLE
country: CANADA
Contact info:
Agency: ATLANTIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FISHING ECONOMY AND OCEANOGRAPHY
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: KALININGRAD
state: NOT AVAILABLE
postal: NOT AVAILABLE
country: RUSSIA
Availability date: 19850909
Metadata version: 7
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:35:41+00
Editdate: 2023-02-11 07:33:14+00