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Title: Real-Time XBT Data assembled by US NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) for the Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Program (GTSPP) and submitted 02/02/2009 - 02/08/2009 (NODC Accession 0050191)
Abstract: These data represent data collected from the Shipboard Environmental (data) Acquisition System (SEAS), a program developed by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to provide accurate meteorological and oceanographic data in real time from ships at sea through the use of satellite data transmission techniques. The system transmits data through either the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) or the International Maritime Satellite Organization (INMARSAT C) satellites to NOAA for use in weather, climatological and ocean models. NOAA is actively participating in an international effort to increase the number of subsurface temperature observations in support of global oceanographic and climate studies. NOAA's Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) program, SEAS, currently supports about 80 Voluntary Observing Ships (VOS). SEAS XBT data are archived by the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) on a weekly basis.
Date received: 20090208
Start date: 20090201
End date: 20090208
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West boundary: 146.949
East boundary: -45.334
North boundary: 40.685
South boundary: 7.403
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Submitter: Chinn, Paul
Submitting institution: US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
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Number of observations: 284
Supplementary information: These data are processed and incorporated into the Global Temperature-SalinityProfile Program (GTSPP) database. For further information about GTSPP and these data, see http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/GTSPP.
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Metadata version: 5
Keydate: 2009-02-02 12:12:55+00
Editdate: 2014-03-27 15:56:11+00