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OAS accession Detail for 8800018, meta_version: 12. Current meta_version is: 13
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Title: Physical and other data from CTD casts from NOAA Ship DISCOVERER and other platforms as part of the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program (OCSEAP) and the Fisheries-Oceanography Cooperative Investigations (FOCI) from 1982-09-07 to 1986-11-04 (NCEI Accession 8800018)
Abstract: Physical and other data were collected from CTD casts from NOAA Ship DISCOVERER and other platforms from 07 September 1982 to 04 November 1986. Data were collected by the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) as part of Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program (OCSEAP) and the Fisheries-Oceanography Cooperative Investigations (FOCI). Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard F022 High-Resolution CTD/STD Output Format. An analog file for this accession is available.

The F022 format contains high-resolution data collected using CTD (conductivity-temperature-depth) and STD (salinity-temperature-depth) instruments. As they are lowered and raised in the oceans, these electronic devices provide nearly continuous profiles of temperature, salinity, and other parameters. Data values may be subject to averaging or filtering or obtained by interpolation and may be reported at depth intervals as fine as 1m. Cruise and instrument information, position, date, time and sampling interval are reported for each station. Environmental data at the time of the cast (meteorological and sea surface conditions) may also be reported. The data record comprises values of temperature, salinity or conductivity, density (computed sigma-t), and possibly dissolved oxygen or transmissivity at specified depth or pressure levels. Data may be reported at either equally or unequally spaced depth or pressure intervals. A text record is available for comments.
Date received: 19880121
Start date: 19820907
End date: 19861104
Seanames: Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean
West boundary: -178.717778
East boundary: -150.016944
North boundary: 65.550833
South boundary: 55.334167
Observation types: physical, profile
Instrument types: CTD
Datatypes: CONDUCTIVITY, HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE, SALINITY, SIGMA-T, water depth, WATER TEMPERATURE
Submitter: Fisk, Donald
Submitting institution: US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Collecting institutions: US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Contributing projects: FOCI, OCSEAP
Platforms: Chapman (32YN), Discoverer (31DS), Macdonough (31MF), Miller Freeman (31FN), Oceanographer (31OC), SEABIRD (32O9)
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.

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Contact info:
Agency: US DOC; NOAA; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY; PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY
PI: N/A
Address:
address: 7600 SAND POINT WAY NE, BLDG 32
city: SEATTLE
state: WA
postal: 98115-0070
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: 19880121
Metadata version: 12
Keydate: 2002-11-19 19:40:22+00
Editdate: 2022-08-07 12:53:54+00