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OAS accession Detail for 7300061, meta_version: 10. Current meta_version is: 15
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accessions_id: 7300061
Title: Temperature profiles from XBT casts from NOAA Ship DELAWARE II and other platforms as part of the Marine Resources Monitoring, Assessment and Prediction (MARMAP) project from 1971-04-01 to 1972-10-01 (NCEI Accession 7300061)
Abstract: Temperature profile were collected from XBT casts from NOAA Ship DELAWARE II and other platforms from 01 April 1971 to 01 October 1972. Data were collected by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) 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. Full formats description is available from NODC at www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-Archive/bt.html.

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 permitted measurements to 1830 m.
Date received: 19731105
Start date: 19710401
End date: 19721001
Seanames: Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, North Atlantic Ocean
West boundary: -89.083
East boundary: -61.7
North boundary: 28.283
South boundary: 17.133
Observation types: physical, profile
Instrument types: bathythermograph - BT, bathythermograph - MBT
Datatypes: water depth, WATER TEMPERATURE
Submitter:
Submitting institution: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Collecting institutions: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Contributing projects: IGOSS, MARMAP
Platforms: A. E. VERRILL (3171), Albatross IV (31A4), ANNANDALE (319Q), ATLANTIS II (31AN), CHAIN (31CI), Delaware II (316G), DOLPHIN (31DP), GOSNOLD (31GO), Knorr (316N), WESTWARD (3195)
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: WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE
PI: N/A
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: WOODS HOLE
state: MA
postal: 02543
country: UNITED STATES
Availability date: 19731105
Metadata version: 10
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:39:43+00
Editdate: 2016-09-20 11:06:27+00