WATER TEMPERATURE and other data from COLUMBUS CANADA, NOAA Ship TOWNSEND CROMWELL and other platforms from 1987-09-09 to 1991-10-28 (NCEI Accession 9200010)

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This dataset contains forty one sets of data collected as part of Shipboard Environmental data Acquisition System (SEAS) III program. The cruises were conducted using sixteen different ships. The bathythermograph (XBT) data was collected between September 9, 1987 and October 28, 1991. The data containing 2,454 observations were sent from the cruise ships to the National Ocean Service, Rockville, MD via telecommunication. This data is currently available in the C116 file format of NODC. The data type C116 contained 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. 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.

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9200010 water depth WATER TEMPERATURE bathythermograph - BT bathythermograph - XBT physical profile COLUMBUS CANADA COLUMBUS OHIO FARNELLA MOANA WAVE NEDLLOYD BALTIMORE NOAA Ship Ferrel NOAA Ship Mt. Mitchell NOAA Ship Townsend Cromwell NOAA Ship Whiting PACDUCHESS POLYNESIA ROSEBANK ROWANBANK SEA WOLF SEA-LAND ACHIEVER SHIN KASHU MARU US DOC/NOAA/National Ocean Service - Rockville, MD US DOC/NOAA/National Ocean Service - Rockville, MD Balearic (Iberian) Sea Bismarck Sea Caribbean Sea Coral Sea Gulf of Mexico Indian Ocean Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin Mozambique Channel New York Bight North Atlantic Ocean North Pacific Ocean South Atlantic Ocean South Pacific Ocean Tasman 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 COLUMBUS CANADA (ICES code: 06CD) COLUMBUS OHIO (call sign: ELHL6, ICES code: 54CA) FARNELLA (ICES code: 74AE) FERREL (call sign: WTEZ, ICES code: 318L, 1968-2002) MOANA WAVE (call sign: WUS9293, ICES code: 32MW, 1974-2011) MT. MITCHELL (call sign: WTEG, ICES code: 31M7, 1968-1995) NEDLLOYD BALTIMORE (call sign: PGDT, ICES code: 64NJ) PACDUCHESS (ICES code: 32D7) POLYNESIA (ICES code: 54PA) ROSEBANK (call sign: J8FO, ICES code: SVRB) ROWANBANK (call sign: J8FN, ICES code: SVRA) SEA WOLF (call sign: KNFG, ICES code: 320L) SEA-LAND ACHIEVER (call sign: WPKD, ICES code: 323Q) SHIN KASHU MARU (ICES code: 49CC) TOWNSEND CROMWELL (ICES code: 31TC) WHITING (call sign: WTEW, ICES code: 31WH, 1963-2003) 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 > SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN

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describedByType	application/octet-steam
identifier	gov.noaa.nodc:9200010
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	109.43,-34.38,145.79,47.98
temporal	1987-09-09T00:00:00+00:00/1991-10-28T00:00:00+00:00

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