Temperature profile data from XBT casts from COLUMBUS WELLINGTON and Other Platforms from 1970-05-16 to 1983-02-08 (NCEI Accession 8300028)

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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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8300028 water depth WATER TEMPERATURE bathythermograph - BT bathythermograph - XBT physical profile C. J. ELIZABETH COLUMBUS WELLINGTON DEEP SIX EASTWARD FURMAN GINA KAREN JINITA MARIETTA MARSHFIELD NOAA Ship Miller Freeman PAN PACIFIC R/V THOMAS G. THOMPSON SEALIFT PACIFIC SEEADLER SHOSHONE USS ANCHORAGE USS BREWTON USS BRONSTEIN USS CALLAGHAN USS Edson USS FANNING USS GARCIA USS GOLDSBOROUGH USS GRIDLEY USS J. INGRAM USS John S. McCain USS KIRK USS Mullinnix USS O'CALLAHAN USS R. E. PEARY VICTORIA American Tuna Boat Association Unknown - Germany (Includes Pre-Reunification Federal Republic Germany) US National Oceanographic Data Center US Navy Ships of Opportunity Unknown - Germany (Includes Pre-Reunification Federal Republic Germany) Aegean Sea Andaman Sea or Burma Sea Arabian Sea Bay of Bengal Caribbean Sea Coral Sea East China Sea (Tung Hai) Gulf of Aden Gulf of Alaska Gulf of California Gulf of Oman Indian Ocean Ionian Sea Laccadive Sea Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin North Atlantic Ocean North Pacific Ocean Persian Gulf (Gulf of Iran), Strait of Hormuz Philippine Sea Red Sea South Atlantic Ocean South China Sea (Nan Hai) South Pacific Ocean Tasman Sea Tyrrhenian 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 Ships ANCHORAGE (ICES code: 32AN) BREWTON (ICES code: 3193) BRONSTEIN (ICES code: 31ZF) C. J. ELIZABETH (ICES code: 32EC) CALLAGHAN (ICES code: 32FJ) COLUMBUS WELLINGTON (ICES code: 06CW) DEEP SIX (ICES code: 32D4) EASTWARD (ICES code: 31EZ) EDSON (ICES code: 31EO) FANNING (ICES code: 319E) FURMAN (ICES code: 31FU) GARCIA (ICES code: 31V6) GINA KAREN (ICES code: 32GK) GOLDSBOROUGH (ICES code: 31XG) GRIDLEY (ICES code: 31X8) J. INGRAM (ICES code: 31IG) JINITA (ICES code: 32JI) John S. MCCAIN (call sign: NBXY, ICES code: 31II, 1953-1978) KIRK (ICES code: 3197) MARIETTA (ICES code: 32ME) MARSHFIELD (ICES code: 32MF) MILLER FREEMAN (call sign: WTDM, ICES code: 31FN, 1974-) MULLINNIX (ICES code: 31XM) O'CALLAHAN (ICES code: 31OF) PAN PACIFIC (ICES code: 32PP) R. E. PEARY (ICES code: 3194) SEALIFT PACIFIC (ICES code: 32D1) SEEADLER (ICES code: 32SE) SHOSHONE (ICES code: 31OO) THOMAS G. THOMPSON (call sign: KGWT, ICES code: 31TT) VICTORIA (ICES code: 31VC) 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 > 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 > GULF OF ALASKA 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:8300028
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	-85.7,-40.28,-77.1,59.3
temporal	1970-05-16T00:00:00+00:00/1983-02-08T00:00:00+00:00

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