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NODC Standard Product: Global ocean temperature and salinity profiles (2 disc set) (NCEI Accession 0098058)

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: October 03, 2025 | Last Modified: 2012-11-30T00:00:00.000+00:00
This set of CD-ROMs contains global ocean temperature and salinity profiles derived from National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) archive data files. It includes oceanographic station (bottle) data, CTD/STD data, and mechanical and expendable bathythermograph data. The data span the period from 1900 to 1990. Disc 1 contains 1.62 million profiles from the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Disc 2 contains 1.57 million profiles from the Pacific Ocean. The data are in an ASCII format. More recent ocean temperature and salinity profile data (including data on these discs) are available in the NCEI World Ocean Database.

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0098058 SALINITY WATER TEMPERATURE bathythermograph - AXBT bathythermograph - BT bathythermograph - EBT bathythermograph - MBT bathythermograph - uBT bathythermograph - XBT bottle CTD physical profile US National Oceanographic Data Center Indian Ocean North Atlantic Ocean North Pacific Ocean South Atlantic Ocean South Pacific Ocean oceanography DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY BATHYTHERMOGRAPHS CTD > Conductivity, Temperature, Depth MBT > Mechanical Bathythermographs XBT > Expendable Bathythermographs OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN

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describedByType application/octet-steam
identifier gov.noaa.nodc:0098058
issued 2012-11-30T00:00:00.000+00:00
landingPage https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
language []
rights otherRestrictions
spatial 180.0,-80.0,-180.0,90.0
temporal 1900-01-01T00:00:00+00:00/1991-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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