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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 1974-07-06 to 1974-09-30 (NCEI Accession 7400712)
Abstract: Temperature profiles were collected from XBT casts from the SANTA CRUZ and other platforms from 06 July 1974 to 30 September 1974. Data were collected by Grace Prudential Lines 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 permitted measurements to 1830 m.
Date received: 19741022
Start date: 19740706
End date: 19740930
Seanames: Caribbean Sea, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Gulf of Mexico, North Atlantic Ocean
West boundary: -93.633333
East boundary: -69.016667
North boundary: 40.333333
South boundary: 19.116667
Observation types: physical, profile
Instrument types: bathythermograph - BT, bathythermograph - XBT
Datatypes: water depth, WATER TEMPERATURE
Submitter:
Submitting institution: United States Coast Guard
Collecting institutions: Delta Steamship Co., Grace Prudential Lines, Moore-McCormack Lines Inc., Sea Land Service Inc., United States Coast Guard
Contributing projects: MARMAP
Platforms: AMERICAN RIGEL (32MR), DELTA SUD (32DS), MAYAGUEZ (32MZ), SANTA CRUZ (3184), Taney (31RT)
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, NCEI 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
Contact info:
Agency: GRACE PRUDENTIAL LINES
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: NEW YORK
state: NY
postal: NOT AVAILABLE
country: UNITED STATES
Contact info:
Agency: DELTA STEAMSHIP CO.
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: NEW ORLEANS
state: LA
postal: NOT AVAILABLE
country: UNITED STATES
Contact info:
Agency: SEA LAND SERVICE INC.
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: ELIZABETH
state: NJ
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: 19741022
Metadata version: 10
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:20:35+00
Editdate: 2022-08-06 12:22:15+00