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OAS accession Detail for 8600175, meta_version: 10. Current meta_version is: 12
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| Title: | Temperature profiles from XBT casts from the USS CURTS and other platforms from the North Atlantic Ocean and other locations as part of the South Atlantic Bight project from 1980-04-30 to 1986-04-24 (NCEI Accession 8600175) |
| Abstract: | Temperature profiles were collected from XBT casts from the USS CURTS and other platforms from 30 April 1980 to 24 April 1986. Data were submitted by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) as part of the South Atlantic Bight 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 either 450 or 760 m. Special instruments permitted measurements to be obtained to 1830 m. The following was present prior to current abstract edit but does not conform to digital data. This record contains Sofar float (subsurface drifter) data collected during the GUSREX (GUlf Stream Recirculation EXperiment) in the Northern Atlantic. There were 41 deployments from April 30 to December 31, 1980. The data was collected over a period of 6 years from April 30, 1980 to April 24, 1986. The floats were deployed at 700 and 2000 m depths. Additional parameters measured were temperature and pressure. These data were submitted by Dr. Phil Richardson, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). The data is currently available in the C116 Bathythermograph file format of NODC. |
| Date received: | 19860514 |
| Start date: | 19800430 |
| End date: | 19860424 |
| Seanames: | North Atlantic Ocean, Northeast Pacific Ocean (limit-180) |
| West boundary: | -145.6 |
| East boundary: | -40 |
| North boundary: | 50 |
| South boundary: | 30 |
| Observation types: | profile, time series |
| Instrument types: | bathythermograph - XBT, profiling float |
| Datatypes: | DEPTH - SENSOR, HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE, POSITION - GEOGRAPHIC, water depth, WATER TEMPERATURE |
| Submitter: | Richardson, Dr. Phil |
| Submitting institution: | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Collecting institutions: | US Navy; Ships of Opportunity, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Contributing projects: | SOUTH ATLANTIC BIGHT |
| Platforms: | Curts (32Q3), drifting buoy (99DB) |
| 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: WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION PI: Richardson, Dr. Phil Address: address: NOT AVAILABLE city: WOODS HOLE state: MA postal: 02543 country: UNITED STATES Contact info: Agency: US NAVY; SHIPS OF OPPORTUNITY Address: address: 4640 JEWEL ST., 204 city: SAN DIEGO state: CA postal: 92109-31331 country: UNITED STATES |
| Availability date: | 19860514 |
| Metadata version: | 10 |
| Keydate: | 2003-10-24 17:36:34+00 |
| Editdate: | 2022-07-06 20:44:59+00 |