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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 02 December 1975 to 30 June 1976 (NODC Accession 7601553)
Abstract: Temperature profiles were collected from XBT casts from the SANTA CRUZ and other platforms from 02 December 1975 to 30 June 1976. 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. Full format 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 either 450 or 760 m. Special instruments permitted measurements to be obtained to 1830 m.
Date received: 19760906
Start date: 19751202
End date: 19760630
Seanames: Alboran Sea, Caribbean Sea, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Gulf of Mexico, North Atlantic Ocean, Strait of Gibraltar
West boundary: -94.4
East boundary: -5.1
North boundary: 47.3
South boundary: 21.5
Observation types: physical, profile
Instrument types: bathythermograph - BT, bathythermograph - XBT
Datatypes: TEMPERATURE - WATER, water depth, WATER TEMPERATURE
Submitter:
Submitting institution: United States Coast Guard
Collecting institutions: American Export Lines, Delta Steamship Co., Grace Prudential Lines, United States Coast Guard, US DOC; NOAA; NMFS; Northeast Fisheries Science Center; Narragansett Laboratory
Contributing projects: MARMAP
Platforms: BLUENOSE (32BL), DELTA NORTE (32DN), DELTA SUD (32DS), Evergreen (31EV), EXPORT DEFENDER (32ED), LASH ATLANTICO (32LT), 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.

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: 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: AMERICAN EXPORT LINES
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: BROOKLYN
state: NY
postal: NOT AVAILABLE
country: UNITED STATES
Contact info:
Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE - NARRAGANSETT
Address:
address: 28 TARZWELL DRIVE
city: NARRAGANSETT
state: RI
postal: 02882
country: UNITED STATES
Availability date: 19760906
Metadata version: 4
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:24:35+00
Editdate: 2011-09-20 12:11:33+00