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OAS accession Detail for 8700212
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| accessions_id: | 8700212 | archive |
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| Title: | Cloud amount/frequency, SALINITY and other data from USCGC CHASE, CARIBIA EXPRESS and other platforms in the NW Atlantic from 1968-09-01 to 1984-12-29 (NCEI Accession 8700212) |
| Abstract: | Data has been processed by NODC to the NODC standard Bathythermograph XBT Selected Depths (SBT) (C125) and Ocean Station (C100) formats. The Oceanographic Station Data (C100) 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 and 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. The UBT (C125) 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. Depths are selected by the originator - usually at standard horizons or some fixed interval. Standard XBTs can obtain profiles to depths of either 450 or 760 m. Special instruments permitted measurements to be obtained to 1830 m. |
| Date received: | 19870607 |
| Start date: | 19680901 |
| End date: | 19841229 |
| Seanames: | Caribbean Sea, North Atlantic Ocean |
| West boundary: | -73.48 |
| East boundary: | -9.23 |
| North boundary: | 50.86 |
| South boundary: | 14.65 |
| Observation types: | physical, profile |
| Instrument types: | bathythermograph - BT, bathythermograph - XBT, bottle, meteorological sensor, Secchi disk |
| Datatypes: | AIR TEMPERATURE - DRY BULB, AIR TEMPERATURE - WET BULB, BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, cloud amount/frequency, cloud types, DISSOLVED OXYGEN, DYNAMIC DEPTH ANOMALY, NITRATE, OXYGEN, pH, phosphate, SALINITY, SEA STATE, Secchi depth, SIGMA-T, silicate, SOUND VELOCITY, TOTAL PHOSPHORUS, WATER COLOR, water depth, WATER TEMPERATURE, WAVE HEIGHT, WAVE PERIOD, WEATHER, WIND DIRECTION, WIND FORCE, WIND SPEED, ZOOPLANKTON BIOMASS |
| Submitter: | |
| Submitting institution: | Kiel University |
| Collecting institutions: | Kiel University, United States Coast Guard |
| Contributing projects: | WORLD CLIMATE RESEARCH PROGRAM |
| Platforms: | CARIBIA EXPRESS (063C), Chase (31E1), PORT HARCOURT (063B), SIERRA EXPRESS (063D) |
| Number of observations: | |
| Supplementary information: | The publication listed below is related to the data collection and is available from the NOAA Central Library: Oceanographic observations, North Atlantic Ocean Station Echo, November 1967-December 1968. Washington, D.C. : United States Coast Guard, Oceanographic Unit, 1971. 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: UNIVERSITAET KIEL PI: N/A Address: address: Dusternbrooker Weg 20 city: KIEL state: W/230 postal: NOT AVAILABLE country: GERMANY Contact info: Agency: US COAST GUARD Address: address: NOT AVAILABLE city: GROTON state: CT postal: 06340 country: UNITED STATES In this accession, NCEI has archived multiple versions of these data. The latest (and best) version of these data has the largest version number. |
| Availability date: | 19870607 |
| Metadata version: | 9 |
| Keydate: | 2002-11-19 19:40:22+00 |
| Editdate: | 2023-02-12 20:10:08+00 |