Temperature profile and water depth data collected from SAXON STAR and other platforms in a World wide distribution from 1983-03-09 to 1986-11-12 (NCEI Accession 8700035)

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Temperature profile and water depth data were collected using BT and XBT from the SAXON STAR and other platforms in a World wide distribution. Data were collected from 09 March 1983 to 12 November 1986 by the US Navy; Ships Of Opportunity (SOOP). 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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8700035 water depth WATER TEMPERATURE bathythermograph - BT bathythermograph - XBT physical profile COLUMBUS VICTORIA COLUMBUS VIRGINIA FALSTRIA NEDLLOYD KEMBLA NEDLLOYD KIMBERLY NEDLLOYD KINGSTON PACKING PACMERCHANT SAXON STAR US Navy Ships of Opportunity US Navy Ships of Opportunity Arafura Sea Banda Sea Bass Strait Bering Sea Caribbean Sea Ceram Sea or Seram Sea Coral Sea East China Sea (Tung Hai) Great Australian Bight Gulf of Alaska Indian Ocean Japan Sea Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin North Atlantic Ocean North Pacific Ocean Philippine Sea Sawu Sea Solomon Sea South Atlantic Ocean South China Sea (Nan Hai) South Pacific Ocean Tasman Sea oceanography DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > WATER DEPTH EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE BATHYTHERMOGRAPHS XBT > Expendable Bathythermographs COLUMBUS VICTORIA (ICES code: 06CV) COLUMBUS VIRGINIA (ICES code: 06CT) FALSTRIA (ICES code: 26FB) NEDLLOYD KEMBLA (ICES code: 64NE) NEDLLOYD KIMBERLY (ICES code: 64NF) NEDLLOYD KINGSTON (ICES code: 64NC) PACKING (ICES code: 54AK) PACMERCHANT (ICES code: 323P) SAXON STAR (ICES code: 06BQ) OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > CARIBBEAN SEA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > MEDITERRANEAN SEA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > BERING SEA OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > GULF OF ALASKA 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:8700035
issued	2002-11-19T00:00:00.000+00:00
landingPage	https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
language	[]
references	[ "https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0189890" ]
rights	otherRestrictions
spatial	17.03,-46.05,28.47,57.68
temporal	1983-03-09T00:00:00+00:00/1986-11-12T00:00:00+00:00

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