WATER TEMPERATURE and other data from NOAA Ship MT. MITCHELL from 1978-04-05 to 1978-04-13 (NCEI Accession 7900129)

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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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7900129 water depth WATER TEMPERATURE bathythermograph - BT bathythermograph - XBT physical profile NOAA Ship Mt. Mitchell NMFS/NEFSC/Narragansett Lab NMFS/NEFSC/Narragansett Lab OCEAN DUMPING New York Bight North Atlantic Ocean oceanography DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOC/NOAA/NMFS/NEFSC > Northeast Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries 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 MT. MITCHELL (call sign: WTEG, ICES code: 31M7, 1968-1995) OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN

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describedByType	application/octet-steam
identifier	gov.noaa.nodc:7900129
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	-71.82,37.03,-75.65,39.2
temporal	1978-04-05T00:00:00+00:00/1978-04-13T00:00:00+00:00

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