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OAS accession Detail for 6600372, meta_version: 1. Current meta_version is: 8
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| Title: | Temperature profiles from MBT casts from the HUMBOLDT from Ocean Weather Station B (OWS-B) in the North Atlantic Ocean from 17 March 1966 to 01 April 1966 (NODC Accession 6600372) |
| Abstract: | Bathythermograph data were collected from the HUMBOLDT within a 1-mile radius of Ocean Weather Station B (56305N 05100W) and in transit. Data were collected by the United States Coast Guard from 17 March 1966 to 01 April 1966. The platform was equipped and staffed to observe weather and sea conditions. Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard Universal Bathythermograph Output (UBT) format. Full format description is available from NODC at www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-Archive/bt.html.
The UBT file 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: | 19721102 |
| Start date: | 19660317 |
| End date: | 19660401 |
| Seanames: | North Atlantic Ocean |
| West boundary: | -51 |
| East boundary: | -50.9 |
| North boundary: | 56.5 |
| South boundary: | 56.4 |
| Observation types: | physical, profile |
| Instrument types: | bathythermograph - MBT |
| Datatypes: | water depth, WATER TEMPERATURE |
| Submitter: | |
| Submitting institution: | United States Coast Guard |
| Collecting institutions: | United States Coast Guard |
| Contributing projects: | OCEAN WEATHER STATION |
| Platforms: | HUMBOLDT (31HU) |
| Number of observations: | |
| Supplementary information: | Note: 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, the NODC 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: | 19721102 |
| Metadata version: | 1 |
| Keydate: | 2003-10-24 17:27:42+00 |
| Editdate: | 2007-07-19 11:41:33+00 |