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Title: Water temperature and depth data from various US platforms in the Atlantic, Pacific, Middle East, and Southern seas from 1941-06-03 to 1965-06-17 (NCEI Accession 9700297)
Abstract: This dataset includes water temperature and depth measurements from mechanical bathythermograph (MBT) from various US platforms in the Atlantic, Pacific, Middle East, and Southern seas from 1941 to 1965. These data were submitted by the US Navy Ships of Opportunity program. These data have been processed to the NODC standard Universal Bathythermograph (UBT) format.

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: 19971030
Start date: 19410603
End date: 19650617
Seanames:
West boundary: 18.166667
East boundary: -68.085
North boundary: 48.183333
South boundary: -61.933333
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Submitter:
Submitting institution: US Navy; Ships of Opportunity
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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 NAVY; SHIPS OF OPPORTUNITY
PI: N/A
Address:
address: 4640 JEWEL ST., 204
city: SAN DIEGO
state: CA
postal: 92109-31331
country: UNITED STATES
Availability date: 19971030
Metadata version: 8
Keydate: 2002-11-19 19:40:22+00
Editdate: 2024-10-22 13:12:47+00