Temperature profile and water depth data collected from YELCHO and other platforms using BT and XBT casts in the North / South Pacific Ocean from 1968-10-29 to 1977-06-09 (NCEI Accession 8900113)

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Temperature profile and water depth data were collected using BT and XBT casts from the USS YELCHO and other platforms in the North / South Pacific Ocean. Data were collected from 29 October 1968 to 09 June 1977 by 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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8900113 water depth WATER TEMPERATURE bathythermograph - BT bathythermograph - XBT physical profile AFRICAN COMET AGS YELCHO CHICAGO EMPIRE STATE IV ENTERPRISE EVELYN DA ROSA G. WILLA LUSTY MARIETTA NOAA Ship David Starr Jordan NOAA Ship OREGON PAN PACIFIC R/V THOMAS G. THOMPSON SANTA INES SEA QUEST SEALIFT PACIFIC SHOSHONE USCGC Gallatin USS BAGLEY USS COOK USS FARRAGUT USS GOLDSBOROUGH USS GRIDLEY USS Hawkins USS Higbee USS J. HEWES USS J. STRAUSS USS John S. McCain USS LANG USS LOCKWOOD USS Luce USS Macdonough USS MEYERKORD USS R. E. PEARY USS Somers USS SOUTH CAROLINA USS Turner Joy USS Wainwright USS WHIPPLE US Navy/Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center US Navy/Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center Aegean Sea Alboran Sea Balearic (Iberian) Sea Caribbean Sea East China Sea (Tung Hai) Gulf of Alaska Gulf of Mexico Ionian Sea Japan Sea Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin Mozambique Channel New York Bight North Atlantic Ocean North Pacific Ocean Philippine Sea South Atlantic Ocean South China Sea (Nan Hai) South Pacific Ocean Southern 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 Ships AFRICAN COMET (ICES code: 32AC) BAGLEY (ICES code: 32BA) CHICAGO (ICES code: 31QZ) COOK (ICES code: 31K4) DAVID STARR JORDAN (call sign: WTDK, ICES code: 31JD, 1966-2010) EMPIRE STATE IV (ICES code: 311T) ENTERPRISE (call sign: WAUY, ICES code: 32E3, -2006) EVELYN DA ROSA (ICES code: 32E9) FARRAGUT (ICES code: 31QQ) G. WILLA (ICES code: 32WG) GALLATIN (ICES code: 313L) GOLDSBOROUGH (ICES code: 31XG) GRIDLEY (ICES code: 31X8) HAWKINS (ICES code: 31QF) HIGBEE (ICES code: 31QH) J. HEWES (ICES code: 3178) J. STRAUSS (ICES code: 31JS) John S. MCCAIN (call sign: NBXY, ICES code: 31II, 1953-1978) LANG (ICES code: 316L) LOCKWOOD (ICES code: 3173) LUCE (ICES code: 31LU) LUSTY (ICES code: 32L3) MACDONOUGH (ICES code: 31MF) MARIETTA (ICES code: 32ME) MEYERKORD (ICES code: 316E) OREGON (ICES code: 31OE) PAN PACIFIC (ICES code: 32PP) R. E. PEARY (ICES code: 3194) SANTA INES (ICES code: 29SA) SEA QUEST (ICES code: 31SQ) SEALIFT PACIFIC (ICES code: 32D1) SHOSHONE (ICES code: 31OO) SOMERS (ICES code: 316S) SOUTH CAROLINA (ICES code: 32SC) THOMAS G. THOMPSON (call sign: KGWT, ICES code: 31TT) TURNER JOY (ICES code: 31Y8) WAINWRIGHT (ICES code: 31WG) WHIPPLE (ICES code: 317H) YELCHO (ICES code: 20YE) 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 > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN 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 SEA OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN

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describedByType	application/octet-steam
identifier	gov.noaa.nodc:8900113
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	40.17,-60.17,106.68,59.42
temporal	1968-10-29T00:00:00+00:00/1977-06-09T00:00:00+00:00

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