WATER TEMPERATURE and other data from USCGC NORTHWIND in the Bay of Biscay from 1988-10-08 to 1988-10-19 (NCEI Accession 8800289)

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The data in this accession was collected in Bay of Biscay from ship Northwind between October 8, 1988 and October 19, 1988. The real time data of water temperature at varying depth bathythermograph (XBT) was recorded in stripcharts by the US Coast Guard. These stripcharts and radio logs were submitted to NODC. The XBT data from these stripcharts have been digitized and is present in the current NODC data storage system in C116 file format.

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8800289 water depth WATER TEMPERATURE bathythermograph - BT bathythermograph - XBT physical profile USCGC NORTHWIND United States Coast Guard United States Coast Guard North Atlantic Ocean 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 NORTHWIND (call sign: NRFJ, ICES code: 31NW, 1945-1989) OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN

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describedByType	application/octet-steam
identifier	gov.noaa.nodc:8800289
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	-8.42,33.52,-76.28,46.63
temporal	1988-10-08T00:00:00+00:00/1988-10-19T00:00:00+00:00

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