Temperature profile data collected using XBT and BT casts in a World-wide distribution from NOAA Ship RESEARCHER and other platforms from 1970-09-30 to 1979-08-05 (NCEI Accession 8300089)

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Temperature profile data were collected using XBT and BT casts from NOAA Ship RESEARCHER and other platforms in a World-wide distribution from 30 September 1970 to 05 August 1979. Data were collected by the US NAVY; Ships of Opportunity. Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard Universal Bathythermograph Output (UBT) format. The UBT file format is used for temperature-depth profile data obtained using expendable bathythermograph (XBT) instruments. Standard XBTs can obtain profiles at depths of about 450 or 760 m. With special instruments, measurements can be obtained to 1830 m. Cruise information, position, date, and time are reported for each observation. The data record comprises pairs of temperature-depth values. Unlike the MBT data file, in which temperature values are recorded at uniform 5m intervals, the XBT Data File contains temperature values at non-uniform depths. These depths are at a minimum number of points ("inflection points") required to record the temperature curve to an acceptable degree of accuracy. On output, however, the user may request temperature values either at inflection points or interpolated to uniform depth increments

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8300089 water depth WATER TEMPERATURE bathythermograph - BT bathythermograph - XBT physical profile CIUDAD DE SALAMANCA FURMAN M. VIVIAN NEW DAWN NOAA Ship David Starr Jordan NOAA Ship Researcher NOAA Ship Townsend Cromwell PACBARON PACDUCHESS PACSTAR QUEEN MARY ROYALTY I USCGC Campbell USCGC Jarvis USS CONOLLY USS D. B. BEARY USS DALE USS O'CALLAHAN USS R. E. PEARY NOAA National Ocean Service United States Coast Guard Unknown - Spain US National Oceanographic Data Center US Navy Ships of Opportunity Unknown - Spain Adriatic Sea Aegean Sea Alboran Sea Arabian Sea Balearic (Iberian) Sea Bering Sea Caribbean Sea East China Sea (Tung Hai) Gulf of Aden Gulf of Alaska Indian Ocean Ionian Sea Ligurian Sea Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin North Atlantic Ocean North Pacific Ocean Philippine Sea Red Sea Sea of Okhotsk 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 DOC/NOAA/NOS > National Ocean Service, 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 Ships CAMPBELL (ICES code: 31CM) CIUDAD DE SALAMANCA (ICES code: 29CD) CONOLLY (ICES code: 322Y) D. B. BEARY (ICES code: 319Y) DALE (ICES code: 31ZD) DAVID STARR JORDAN (call sign: WTDK, ICES code: 31JD, 1966-2010) FURMAN (ICES code: 31FU) JARVIS (ICES code: 319J) M. VIVIAN (ICES code: 32VN) NEW DAWN (ICES code: 32ZS) O'CALLAHAN (ICES code: 31OF) PACBARON (ICES code: 32B7) PACDUCHESS (ICES code: 32D7) PACSTAR (ICES code: 324T) QUEEN MARY (ICES code: 314Q) R. E. PEARY (ICES code: 3194) ROYALTY I (ICES code: 325R) Researcher (call sign: WTER, ICES code: 3175, 1970-1987) TOWNSEND CROMWELL (ICES code: 31TC) 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 > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > MEDITERRANEAN SEA > ADRIATIC SEA 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 > GULF OF ALASKA OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > SEA OF OKHOTSK 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:8300089
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	69.6,-7.93,109.83,57.67
temporal	1970-09-30T00:00:00+00:00/1979-08-05T00:00:00+00:00

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