Temperature profile and water depth data collected from AMERICAN RESERVIST using BT and XBT casts in the North Pacific Ocean from 1974-01-20 to 1977-09-29 (NCEI Accession 8900287)

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Temperature profile and water depth data were collected using BT and XBT casts from the AMERICAN RESERVIST in the North Pacific Ocean and TOGA Area - Pacific Ocean. Data were collected from 20 January 1974 to 29 September 1977 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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8900287 water depth WATER TEMPERATURE bathythermograph - BT bathythermograph - XBT physical profile AMERICAN RESERVIST CHICAGO ENTERPRISE G. WILLA GINA KAREN GLOMAR CHALLENGER L. MARGARET LUCKY STRIKE NORWALK QUEEN MARY TRUMAN USNS De Steiguer USNS Thomas Washington USS AGERHOLM USS BRONSTEIN USS BROOKE USS Damato USS Dupont USS ELLIOT USS GRIDLEY USS H. B. WILSON USS Hawkins USS J. HEWES USS J. L. BROWN USS J. STRAUSS USS John S. McCain USS KNOX USS KOELSCH USS Long Beach USS MCCLOY USS MOINESTER USS PHARRIS USS Radford USS RATHBURNE USS ROARK USS SARATOGA USS SEMMES USS T. C. HART USS TATTNALL USS Towers USS TRUETT USS Turner Joy USS Wainwright VEGA US Navy/Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center US Navy/Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center Aegean Sea Alboran Sea Arabian Sea Balearic (Iberian) Sea Bering Sea Caribbean Sea Celebes Sea (Sulawesi Sea and Mindanao Sea) East China Sea (Tung Hai) Gulf of Aden Gulf of Mexico Gulf of Oman Gulf of Suez Gulf of Thailand Indian Ocean Ionian Sea Japan Sea Ligurian Sea Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin New York Bight North Atlantic Ocean North Pacific Ocean Philippine Sea Red Sea Sea of Okhotsk Selat Makasar (Makasar Strait) South Atlantic Ocean South China Sea (Nan Hai) Sulu 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 A. W. RADFORD (ICES code: 31F9) AGERHOLM (ICES code: 31GQ) AMERICAN RESERVIST (ICES code: 312M, 1983-1992) BRONSTEIN (ICES code: 31ZF) BROOKE (ICES code: 314B) CHICAGO (ICES code: 31QZ) DAMATO (ICES code: 31D8) DE STEIGUER (ICES code: 315D) DUPONT (ICES code: 31D7) ELLIOT (ICES code: 32E4) ENTERPRISE (call sign: WAUY, ICES code: 32E3, -2006) G. WILLA (ICES code: 32WG) GINA KAREN (ICES code: 32GK) GLOMAR CHALLENGER (ICES code: 3177) GRIDLEY (ICES code: 31X8) H. B. WILSON (ICES code: 31IX) HAWKINS (ICES code: 31QF) J. HEWES (ICES code: 3178) J. L. BROWN (ICES code: 32BJ) J. STRAUSS (ICES code: 31JS) John S. MCCAIN (call sign: NBXY, ICES code: 31II, 1953-1978) KNOX (ICES code: 3166) KOELSCH (ICES code: 313K) L. MARGARET (ICES code: 32N2) LONG BEACH (ICES code: 31QB) LUCKY STRIKE (ICES code: 32LS) MCCLOY (ICES code: 31YM) MOINESTER (ICES code: 32MN) NORWALK (ICES code: 31NL) PHARRIS (ICES code: 32PR) QUEEN MARY (ICES code: 314Q) RATHBURNE (ICES code: 316R) ROARK (ICES code: 317R) SARATOGA (ICES code: 32SZ) SEMMES (ICES code: 31EM) T. C. HART (ICES code: 32HA) TATTNALL (ICES code: 31Z7) THOMAS WASHINGTON (call sign: KGWU, ICES code: 31WT, 1965-1992) TOWERS (ICES code: 31T2) TRUETT (ICES code: 32TT) TRUMAN (call sign: HP2674, ICES code: 32GV) TURNER JOY (ICES code: 31Y8) VEGA (ICES code: 32V0) WAINWRIGHT (ICES code: 31WG) 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 > RED SEA 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 > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > SEA OF OKHOTSK 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:8900287
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	65.77,-31.42,102.47,54.92
temporal	1974-01-20T00:00:00+00:00/1977-09-29T00:00:00+00:00

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