Water temperature, salinity, bathymetry, and sediment samples taken by CTD and multibeam sonar from the research vessel Ke Xue, cruise HOBAB5, in the North Pacific (Mariana trench) from 2018-06-07 to 2018-06-20 (NCEI Accession 0279921)

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This dataset contains water temperature, salinity, bathymetry, sediment samples taken by CTD and the Sea Beam 3012 multibeam system from the research vessel Ke Xue, cruise HOBAB5, KEXUE-CN 20106443808. Bottom video recording is also included. This cruise is U.S. State Department MSR U2018-012 as part of the World Data Service for Geophysics and Oceanography. Processed CTD data are in CNV, raw CTD data are also included. Multibeam sonar data are in the Sea Beam 3012 format. Video is in MPEG format. Report is in PDF. Sediment analysis is described in publications listed in the Document section.

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identifier	gov.noaa.nodc:0279921
issued	2023-07-13T00:00:00.000+00:00
landingPage	https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
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references	[ "https://doi.org/10.1130/g48754.1", "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2022.12.005", "https://doi.org/10.1029/2021jb022261", "https://doi.org/10.1029/2022jb024910", "https://www3.mbari.org/data/mbsystem/formatdoc/L3-ELAC/SS_40_110_9003_XSE-for-SB30xx_Rev-D.pdf" ]
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spatial	145.0,12.5,143.0,22.0
temporal	2018-06-07T00:00:00+00:00/2018-06-20T00:00:00+00:00