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Title: Temperature profiles from XBT casts from the SANTA CRUZ and other platforms as part of the Marine Resources Monitoring, Assessment and Prediction (MARMAP) project from 1972-09-01 to 1972-11-05 (NCEI Accession 7201439)
Abstract: Temperature profiles were collected from XBT casts from the SANTA CRUZ and other platforms from 01 September 1972 to 05 November 1972. Data were collected by the Delta Steamship Company and other institutions as part of the Marine Resources Monitoring, Assessment and Prediction (MARMAP) project. Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard Universal bathythermograph Output (UBT) format.

The UBT format contains temperature-depth profile data obtained using expendable bathythermograph (XBT) instruments. Cruise information, position, date and time were reported for each observation. The data records are comprised of pairs of temperature-depth values. The XBT data files contain temperature values at non-uniform depths. These depths were recorded at the minimum number of points ("inflection points") required to accurately define the temperature curve.
Standard XBTs can obtain profiles to depths of 450 m or 760 m. Special instruments permit measurements to 1830 m.
Date received: 19721215
Start date: 19720901
End date: 19721105
Seanames: Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, North Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic Ocean
West boundary: -96.433333
East boundary: -20.133333
North boundary: 42.233333
South boundary: -17.533333
Observation types: physical, profile
Instrument types: bathythermograph - BT, bathythermograph - XBT
Datatypes: water depth, WATER TEMPERATURE
Submitter:
Submitting institution: Unknown - USA
Collecting institutions: Delta Steamship Co., Moore-McCormack Lines Inc., Unknown - USA, US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; National Oceanographic Data Center
Contributing projects: MARMAP
Platforms: AMERICAN PRIDE (318O), DELTA ARGENTINA (319T), SANTA CRUZ (3184)
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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Points of contact for this data set include:
Contact info:
Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER
PI: N/A
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: NOT AVAILABLE
state: NOT AVAILABLE
postal: NOT AVAILABLE
Contact info:
Agency: DELTA STEAMSHIP CO.
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: NEW ORLEANS
state: LA
postal: NOT AVAILABLE
country: UNITED STATES
Contact info:
Agency: MOORE-MCCORMACK LINES INC.
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: NEW YORK
state: NY
postal: NOT AVAILABLE
country: UNITED STATES
Availability date: 19721215
Metadata version: 12
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:39:30+00
Editdate: 2022-08-06 05:00:44+00