WATER TEMPERATURE and other data from USCGC POLAR STAR in the South Pacific Ocean from 1992-11-08 to 1993-04-12 (NCEI Accession 9300068)

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The water depth and temperature data was collected in South Pacific Ocean as part of project Deep Freeze from ship POLAR STAR. The data was collected from November 8, 1992 to April 12, 1993. The originator's bathythermograph (XBT) data was submitted in a diskette by Ens. Quenton Maddux, US COAST GUARD, Groton, CT. The data has been converted and is now available on line in C116 file format of NODC.

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9300068 water depth WATER TEMPERATURE bathythermograph - BT bathythermograph - XBT physical profile USCGC Polar Star United States Coast Guard United States Coast Guard DEEP FREEZE Bali Sea East China Sea (Tung Hai) Great Australian Bight Indian Ocean North Pacific Ocean Philippine Sea South China Sea (Nan Hai) South Pacific Ocean Southern Ocean Tasman 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 POLAR STAR (call sign: NBTM, ICES code: 32PZ, 1976-) OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN > EAST CHINA SEA OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH CHINA AND EASTERN ARCHIPELAGIC SEAS OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH CHINA SEA OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN

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describedByType	application/octet-steam
identifier	gov.noaa.nodc:9300068
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	-120.2,-77.44,110.62,51.54
temporal	1992-11-08T00:00:00+00:00/1993-04-12T00:00:00+00:00

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