Temperature profile and water depth data collected from ALCALA GALIANO using BT and XBT casts in the North/South Pacific Ocean from 1977-01-29 to 1978-04-08 (NCEI Accession 8900218)

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Temperature profile and water depth data were collected using BT and XBT casts from the ALCALA GALIANO and other platforms in the North and South Pacific Ocean. Data were collected from 29 January 1977 to 08 April 1978 by the US Navy; Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center (FNOC). Data has been processed by NODC to the NODC standard Bathythermograph (XBT) (C116) format. The C116/C118 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 record was comprised of pairs of temperature-depth values. Unlike the MBT Data File, in which temperature values were recorded at uniform 5 m intervals, the XBT data files contained temperature values at non-uniform depths. These depths were recorded at the minimum number of points ("inflection points") required to accurately define the temperature curve. Standard XBTs can obtain profiles to depths of either 450 or 760 m. With special instruments, measurements can be obtained to 1830 m. Prior to July 1994, XBT data were routinely processed to one of these standard types. XBT data are now processed and loaded directly in to the NODC Ocean Profile Data Base (OPDB). Historic data from these two data types were loaded into the OPDB.

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8900218 water depth WATER TEMPERATURE bathythermograph - BT bathythermograph - XBT physical profile ALCALA GALIANO CHICAGO ENTERPRISE FURMAN GLOMAR CHALLENGER GOLDEN BEAR MARSHFIELD PRESIDENT KENNEDY ROYALTY I USCGC Dallas USNS Potomac USS BADGER USS BLANDY USS BRONSTEIN USS CARON USS Damato USS GOLDSBOROUGH USS GRAY USS Higbee USS J. A. FURER USS J. STRAUSS USS KITTY HAWK USS MOINESTER USS PEORIA USS PHARRIS USS SAMPSON USS SARATOGA USS SPRUANCE USS STEIN US Navy/Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center US Navy/Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center Aegean Sea Alboran Sea Andaman Sea or Burma Sea Arabian Sea Balearic (Iberian) Sea Bali Sea Bay of Bengal Bering Sea Caribbean Sea East China Sea (Tung Hai) Great Australian Bight Gulf of Aden Gulf of Mexico Gulf of Oman Indian Ocean Ionian Sea Japan Sea Laccadive Sea Ligurian Sea Malacca Straits Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin New York Bight North Atlantic Ocean North Pacific Ocean Philippine Sea South Atlantic Ocean South China Sea (Nan Hai) South Pacific Ocean Strait of Gibraltar Tasman Sea Tyrrhenian Sea oceanography DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOD/USNAVY/FNMOC > Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center, U.S. Navy, U. S. Department of Defense EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > WATER DEPTH EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE BATHYTHERMOGRAPHS XBT > Expendable Bathythermographs Ships ALCALA GALIANO (ICES code: 29LG) BADGER (ICES code: 31DQ) BLANDY (ICES code: 31YD) BRONSTEIN (ICES code: 31ZF) CARON (ICES code: 32W4) CHICAGO (ICES code: 31QZ) DALLAS (ICES code: 31DG) DAMATO (ICES code: 31D8) ENTERPRISE (call sign: WAUY, ICES code: 32E3, -2006) FURMAN (ICES code: 31FU) GLOMAR CHALLENGER (ICES code: 3177) GOLDEN BEAR (ICES code: 32GB) GOLDSBOROUGH (ICES code: 31XG) GRAY (ICES code: 318G) HIGBEE (ICES code: 31QH) J. A. FURER (ICES code: 313J) J. STRAUSS (ICES code: 31JS) KITTY HAWK (ICES code: 32KH) MARSHFIELD (ICES code: 32MF) MOINESTER (ICES code: 32MN) PEORIA (ICES code: 328G) PHARRIS (ICES code: 32PR) PRESIDENT KENNEDY (ICES code: 32PK) Potomac (call sign: NBLM, ICES code: 32FX, 1976-1983) ROYALTY I (ICES code: 325R) SAMPSON (ICES code: 31NM) SARATOGA (ICES code: 32SZ) SPRUANCE (ICES code: 32R6) STEIN (ICES code: 3189) OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > CARIBBEAN SEA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF AMERICA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MEXICO OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > MEDITERRANEAN SEA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > ARABIAN SEA OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > BAY OF BENGAL OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > BERING SEA OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > SEA OF JAPAN OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN > EAST CHINA SEA OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH CHINA AND EASTERN ARCHIPELAGIC SEAS OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH CHINA SEA

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describedByType	application/octet-steam
identifier	gov.noaa.nodc:8900218
issued	2003-10-24T00:00:00.000+00:00
landingPage	https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
language	[]
references	[ "https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0189890" ]
rights	otherRestrictions
spatial	60.5,-43.27,78.27,55.5
temporal	1977-01-29T00:00:00+00:00/1978-04-08T00:00:00+00:00

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