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Title: Oceanographic station, meteorological and other data from bottle casts from the MURRE II as part of the Marine Resources Monitoring, Assessment and Prediction (MARMAP) project from 12 September 1972 to 16 November 1972 (NODC Accession No. - 7300554)
Abstract: Oceanographic station, meteorological, and other data were collected from bottle casts from the MURRE II from 12 September 1972 to 16 November 1972. Data were collected by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) as part of the Marine Resources Monitoring, Assessment and Prediction (MARMAP) project. Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard Oceanographic Station Data (SD2) format. Full format description is available from NODC at www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-Archive/sd2.html

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 and 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: 19730509
Start date: 19720912
End date: 19721116
Seanames:
West boundary: -135.4
East boundary: -133.1
North boundary: 59.3
South boundary: 56.8
Observation types: physical, profile, visual observation
Instrument types: bottle, meteorological sensor, Secchi disk
Datatypes: AIR TEMPERATURE - DRY BULB, AIR TEMPERATURE - WET BULB, BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, cloud amount/frequency, cloud type, DYNAMIC DEPTH ANOMALY, OXYGEN, OXYGEN - DISSOLVED GAS, PRESSURE - BAROMETRIC, SALINITY, Secchi depth, SIGMA-T, SOUND VELOCITY, TEMPERATURE - WATER, water depth, WATER TEMPERATURE, WAVE DIRECTION, WEATHER, WIND DIRECTION, WIND SPEED
Submitter:
Submitting institution: US DOC; NOAA; NMFS; Alaska Fisheries Science Center; Auke Bay Laboratories
Collecting institutions: US DOC; NOAA; NMFS; Alaska Fisheries Science Center; Auke Bay Laboratories
Contributing projects: MARMAP
Platforms: MURRE II (31MX)
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; NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE - AUKE BAY
PI: N/A
Address:
address: 11305 GLACIER HIGHWAY, PO BOXC 210155
city: AUKE BAY
state: AK
postal: 99821
country: UNITED STATES
Availability date: 19730509
Metadata version: 2
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:18:49+00
Editdate: 2006-12-18 18:17:47+00