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Title: Real-time profile data assembled by Canada Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) for the Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Programme (GTSPP) and submitted on 1999-10-13 (NCEI Accession 9900180)
Abstract: This dataset includes near real-time global ocean temperature and salinity measurements taken by shipboard observers or automated instruments and received daily by the Marine Environmental Data Section (MEDS) of the Ocean Sciences Branch of Fisheries and Oceans Canada from the Global Telecommunication System (GTS) of the WMO World Weather Watch. MEDS applies the documented GTSPP quality assessment and duplicates removal procedures and forwards the quality-checked data three times each week to the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). At NCEI, the data are added to the GTSPP continuously managed database on the same schedule. These data may include data from Argo floats, OceanSITES, gliders, Ship of Opportunity Program (SOOP) XBT networks including participants from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Japan, and USA, moored buoys for PIRATA, TOGA TAO, TRITON, MARNET, GoMOOS, and NERACOOS, ice-tethered buoys, drifting buoys, and instrumented marine animals.
Date received: 19991019
Start date: 19990315
End date: 19990830
Seanames: Aegean Sea, Alboran Sea, Arabian Sea, Arafura Sea, Bali Sea, Baltic Sea, Bay of Bengal, Bay of Biscay, Bay of Fundy, Bering Sea, Black Sea, Caribbean Sea, Coral Sea, Davis Strait, East China Sea (Tung Hai), Greenland Sea (including Iceland Sea and North Greenland Sea), Gulf of Alaska, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Indian Ocean, Inland Sea (Seto Naikai), Ionian Sea, Japan Sea, Java Sea, Kattegat, The Sound, Great Belt, Little Belt, Labrador Sea, Laccadive Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin, Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin, Mozambique Channel, North Atlantic Ocean, North Pacific Ocean, North Sea, Norwegian Sea, Philippine Sea, Red Sea, Sea of Marmara, Sea of Okhotsk, Skagerrak, South Atlantic Ocean, South China Sea (Nan Hai), South Pacific Ocean, Strait of Gibraltar, Tasman Sea, Timor Sea, Tyrrhenian Sea
West boundary: 89.12
East boundary: 86.75
North boundary: 71.53
South boundary: -48.93
Observation types: meteorological, physical, profile, time series
Instrument types: bathythermograph - XBT, buoy - drifting buoy, buoy - moored buoy, profiling float
Datatypes: AIR TEMPERATURE - DRY BULB, BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, CURRENT DIRECTION, CURRENT SPEED, DEPTH - SENSOR, RELATIVE HUMIDITY, SALINITY, SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE, WATER TEMPERATURE, WIND DIRECTION, WIND SPEED
Submitter:
Submitting institution: Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Marine Environmental Data Section
Collecting institutions:
Contributing projects: Argo, GTSPP, SOOP, TAO
Platforms:
Number of observations: 8882
Supplementary information: These data are processed and incorporated into the Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Programme (GTSPP) database.

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).

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Contact info:
Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER
PI: N/A
Address:
address: 1335 EAST-WEST HIGHWAY
city: SILVER SPRING
state: MD
postal: 20910-3281
country: UNITED STATES
Availability date: 19991019
Metadata version: 7
Keydate: 2002-11-19 19:40:22+00
Editdate: 2023-12-06 16:47:56+00