Temperature profile and water depth data collected from BAINBRIDGE using BT and XBT casts in the North Pacific Ocean from 1975-07-03 to 1977-10-31 (NCEI Accession 8900230)

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Temperature profile and water depth data were collected using BT and XBT casts from the BAINBRIDGE in the North Pacific Ocean and TOGA Area - Pacific Ocean. Data were collected from 03 July 1975 to 31 October 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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8900230 water depth WATER TEMPERATURE bathythermograph - BT bathythermograph - XBT physical profile AMERICAN RESERVIST FURMAN GLOMAR CHALLENGER MARSHFIELD PHILIPPINE MAIL PRESIDENT KENNEDY USCGC Chase USCGC Gallatin USS Bainbridge USS Baussell USS BIDDLE USS BRONSTEIN USS Decatur USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER USS FANNING USS FARRAGUT USS GRIDLEY USS Hawkins USS Higbee USS J. INGRAM USS J. P. KENNEDY JR. USS John S. McCain USS JOUETT USS LOCKWOOD USS R. E. PEARY USS SAMPLE USS SEMMES USS Somers USS SOUTH CAROLINA USS WHIPPLE USS William C. Lawe USS William H. Standley US Navy/Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center US Navy/Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center Aegean Sea Alboran Sea Arabian Sea Balearic (Iberian) Sea Bay of Bengal Bering Sea East China Sea (Tung Hai) English Channel (La Manche) Gulf of Aden Gulf of Mexico Gulf of Oman Indian Ocean Ionian Sea Japan Sea Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin New York Bight North Atlantic Ocean North Pacific Ocean North Sea Persian Gulf (Gulf of Iran), Strait of Hormuz Philippine Sea Red Sea South China Sea (Nan Hai) South Pacific Ocean 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 AMERICAN RESERVIST (ICES code: 312M, 1983-1992) BAINBRIDGE (ICES code: 311B) BAUSSELL (ICES code: 316B) BIDDLE (ICES code: 31QD) BRONSTEIN (ICES code: 31ZF) CHASE (ICES code: 31E1) DECATUR (ICES code: 311D) DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (ICES code: 3261) FANNING (ICES code: 319E) FARRAGUT (ICES code: 31QQ) FURMAN (ICES code: 31FU) GALLATIN (ICES code: 313L) GLOMAR CHALLENGER (ICES code: 3177) GRIDLEY (ICES code: 31X8) HAWKINS (ICES code: 31QF) HIGBEE (ICES code: 31QH) J. INGRAM (ICES code: 31IG) J. P. KENNEDY JR. (ICES code: 31JY) JOUETT (ICES code: 31UQ) John S. MCCAIN (call sign: NBXY, ICES code: 31II, 1953-1978) LOCKWOOD (ICES code: 3173) MARSHFIELD (ICES code: 32MF) PHILIPPINE MAIL (ICES code: 316P) PRESIDENT KENNEDY (ICES code: 32PK) R. E. PEARY (ICES code: 3194) SAMPLE (ICES code: 31LS) SEMMES (ICES code: 31EM) SOMERS (ICES code: 316S) SOUTH CAROLINA (ICES code: 32SC) W. C. LAWE (ICES code: 31X9) WHIPPLE (ICES code: 317H) William H. Standley (ICES code: 31XS) OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN 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 > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH SEA OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > ARABIAN SEA OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > ARABIAN SEA > PERSIAN GULF OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > BAY OF BENGAL 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 > SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN > EAST CHINA SEA OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH CHINA SEA

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describedByType	application/octet-steam
identifier	gov.noaa.nodc:8900230
issued	2003-10-24T00:00:00.000+00:00
landingPage	https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
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references	[ "https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0189890" ]
rights	otherRestrictions
spatial	66.5,-9.2,86.17,54.25
temporal	1975-07-03T00:00:00+00:00/1977-10-31T00:00:00+00:00

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