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Title: Temperature profiles from mechanical bathythermograph casts by the USC&GSS ship PATHFINDER in the NE Pacific and the Gulf of Alaska, 1960-05-09 to 1960-09-19 (NCEI Accession 6000097)
Abstract: Data has been been processed by NODC to the NODC standard Bathythermograph (MBT) (C128) format.

The C128 format is used for temperature-depth profile data obtained using the mechanical bathythermograph (MBT) instrument. The maximum depth of MBT observations is approximately 285 m. Therefore, MBT data are useful only in studying the thermal structure of the upper layers of the ocean. Cruise information, date, position, and time are reported for each observation. The data record comprises pairs of temperature-depth values. Temperature data in this file are recorded at uniform 5 m depth intervals.
Date received: 19740917
Start date: 19600509
End date: 19600919
Seanames: Bering Sea, Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia, Gulf of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean
West boundary: -166.3
East boundary: -133.47
North boundary: 59.78
South boundary: 54.08
Observation types: physical, profile
Instrument types: bathythermograph - MBT
Datatypes: DEPTH - OBSERVATION, WATER TEMPERATURE
Submitter:
Submitting institution: United States Coast Guard
Collecting institutions: United States Coast Guard
Contributing projects:
Platforms: Pathfinder (31PF)
Number of observations: 89
Supplementary information: NOTE 1: Whether these data from the Coast & Geodetic Survey were submitted by the US Coast Guard or not is unknown.

Note 2: Metadata for this accession were extracted from a legacy database
maintained by the U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). The
design of the database did not exactly reflect the FGDC Content
Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM).

Principal Investigator (PI) and organization contact information accurately represents all available information from the legacy database at the time that this description was created. However, proper attribution of a PI to a specific institution or the role (submitting or collecting) taken by an institution may not be correct due to inexact mapping between fields in the legacy database and the CSDGM. Due to this uncertainty, the contact information was initially recorded in the Supplemental Information element of the CSDGM description.

To develop more accurate metadata, NCEI reviews metadata for all accessions on an ongoing basis.

Points of contact for this data set include:
Contact info:
Agency: US COAST GUARD
PI: N/A
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: GROTON
state: CT
postal: 06340
country: UNITED STATES
Availability date: 19740917
Metadata version: 7
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:23:18+00
Editdate: 2022-08-05 11:00:40+00