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Title: Oceanographic Station Data from CTD casts from NOAA Ship Researcher as part of the International Decade of Ocean Exploration / Cooperative Investigations of the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (IDOE/CICAR) from 1971-07-21 to 1971-09-01 (NCEI Accession 7200172)
Abstract: Oceanographic Station Data were collected from CTD casts from NOAA Ship Researcher from 21 July 1971 to 01 September 1971. Data were collected by the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) as part of the International Decade of Ocean Exploration / Cooperative Investigations of the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (IDOE/CICAR). Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard Oceanographic Station Data (SD2) format.

The Oceanographic Station Data format contains physical-chemical oceanographic data recorded at discrete depth levels. Most of the observations were made using multi-bottle Nansen casts or other types of water samplers. A small amount (about 5 percent) were obtained using electronic CTD (conductivity-temperature-depth) or STD (salinity-temperature-depth) recorders. The CTD/STD data were reported to NODC at depth levels equivalent to Nansen cast data, however, and have been processed and stored the same as the Nansen data. Cruise information (e.g., ship, country, institution), position, date, and time, and reported for each station. The principal measured parameters are temperature and salinity, but dissolved oxygen, phosphate, total phosphorus, silicate, nitrate, nitrite, and pH may be reported. Meteorological conditions at the time of the cast (e.g., air temperature and pressure, wind, waves) may also be reported, as well as auxiliary data such as water color (Forel-Ule scale), water transparency (Secchi disk depth), and depth to bottom. Values of density (sigma-t), sound velocity, and dynamic depth anomaly are computed from measured parameters. Each station contains the measurements taken at the observed depth levels, but also includes data values interpolated to a set of standard depth levels.
Date received: 19720201
Start date: 19710721
End date: 19710901
Seanames: Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, North Atlantic Ocean
West boundary: -87.068889
East boundary: -80.633333
North boundary: 24.500278
South boundary: 17.816667
Observation types: physical, profile
Instrument types: bottle, meteorological sensor, Secchi disk
Datatypes: BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, cloud amount/frequency, PHOSPHORUS - TOTAL IN PHOSPHATE, SALINITY, Secchi depth, SIGMA-T, SOUND VELOCITY, TOTAL PHOSPHORUS, WATER COLOR, water depth, WATER TEMPERATURE, WAVE HEIGHT, WAVE PERIOD, WIND DIRECTION, WIND SPEED
Submitter:
Submitting institution: US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Collecting institutions: US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Contributing projects: IDOE/CICAR
Platforms: Researcher (3175)
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.

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Contact info:
Agency: US DOC; NOAA; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY; ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC METEROLOGICAL LABORATORY - MIAMI FL
PI: N/A
Address:
address: 4301 RICKENBACKER CAUSEWAY
city: MIAMI
state: FL
postal: 33149-1026
country: UNITED STATES
Availability date: 19720201
Metadata version: 12
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:16:54+00
Editdate: 2022-08-06 04:27:16+00