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OAS accession Detail for 0120358
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Title: Physical profile data collected from CTD casts from NOAA Ship KA'IMIMOANA in the Equatorial Pacific during cruise KA-11-05 to service the Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) array from 2011-08-30 to 2011-09-05 (NCEI Accession 0120358)
Abstract: As part of the Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) Program, the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) was responsible for the at-sea collection, quality control and processing, and delivery of these CTD data in netCDF files to the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). NDBC collected these CTD data during a cruise to service the TAO array of moorings.
Date received: 20140513
Start date: 20110830
End date: 20110905
Seanames: Equatorial Pacific Ocean, North Pacific Ocean, South Pacific Ocean, TOGA Area - Pacific (30 N to 30 S)
West boundary: -140.2602
East boundary: -139.9495
North boundary: 9.0312
South boundary: -5.0347
Observation types: meteorological, physical, profile
Instrument types: CTD, meteorological sensor
Datatypes: AIR TEMPERATURE - DRY BULB, AIR TEMPERATURE - WET BULB, BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, cloud amount/frequency, HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE, SALINITY, SWELL HEIGHT, VISIBILITY, WATER TEMPERATURE, WEATHER, WIND DIRECTION, WIND SPEED
Submitter: Petraitis, Dawn
Submitting institution: US DOC; NOAA; NWS; National Data Buoy Center
Collecting institutions: US DOC; NOAA; NWS; National Data Buoy Center
Contributing projects: TAO
Platforms: Ka'imimoana (33KM)
Number of observations:
Supplementary information: Documents about NDBC's processing of Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) CTD data and other related information are in NCEI accession 0118678.

An ASCII text version of these data are available in NCEI accession 0109296.
Availability date:
Metadata version: 5
Keydate: 2014-07-15 13:32:54+00
Editdate: 2022-01-09 16:29:50+00