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Title: Real-Time XBT Data assembled by US NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) for the Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Programme (GTSPP) and submitted 04/20/2009 - 04/26/2009 (NCEI Accession 0053130)
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: 20090426
Start date: 20090419
End date: 20090426
Seanames: Andaman Sea or Burma Sea, Bay of Bengal, Bering Sea, Indian Ocean, Malacca Straits, North Atlantic Ocean, North Pacific Ocean, Philippine Sea, South Atlantic Ocean, South China Sea (Nan Hai), South Pacific Ocean
West boundary: 43.996
East boundary: -25.527
North boundary: 54.376
South boundary: -62.7
Observation types: physical, profile
Instrument types: bathythermograph - XBT
Datatypes: WATER TEMPERATURE
Submitter: Chinn, Paul
Submitting institution: US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Collecting institutions: US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Contributing projects: SEAS
Platforms: CMA CGM Lavender (54LB), Horizon Hawk (33H2), Horizon Tiger (33KN), JOSEPHINE MAERSK (26JM), Laurence M. Gould (33LG), Safmarine Meru (74TH), SEA-LAND NAVIGATOR (3280)
Number of observations: 566
Supplementary information: These data are processed and incorporated into the Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Programme (GTSPP) database.
Availability date:
Metadata version: 6
Keydate: 2009-04-25 00:50:48+00
Editdate: 2022-05-22 19:27:53+00