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Title: Temperature profiles from XBT casts from the YELCHO and other platforms as part of the International Decade of the International Decade of Ocean Exploration / International Ocean Studies / First Dynamic Response and Kinematics Experiment in the Drake Passage (IDOE/ISOS/FDRAKE) from 1976-02-08 to 1976-04-05 (NCEI Accession 7700460)
Abstract: Temperature profiles were collected from XBT casts from the YELCHO and other platforms from 08 February 1976 to 05 April 1976. Data were collected by Texas A&M University (TAMU) as part of the International Decade of Ocean Exploration / International Ocean Studies / First Dynamic Response and Kinematics Experiment in the Drake Passage (IDOE/ISOS/FDRAKE). 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 either 450 or 760 m. Special instruments permit measurements to be obtained to 1830 m.
Date received: 19770616
Start date: 19760208
End date: 19760405
Seanames: Caribbean Sea, Gulf of St. Lawrence, North Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic Ocean
West boundary: -66.651111
East boundary: -60.4
North boundary: 59
South boundary: -59.467222
Observation types: physical, profile
Instrument types: bathythermograph - BT, bathythermograph - XBT
Datatypes: water depth, WATER TEMPERATURE
Submitter:
Submitting institution: Texas A&M University; College Station
Collecting institutions: Texas A&M University; College Station
Contributing projects: IDOE/ISOS/FDRAKE
Platforms: THOMAS G. THOMPSON (31TT), YELCHO (20YE)
Number of observations:
Supplementary information: The publication listed below is related to the data collection and is available from the NOAA Central Library:

Oceanographic data collected aboard R/V T.G. Thompson during FDRAKE 76, legs I and II. College Station, Tex. : Texas A & M University, Department of Oceanography, 1978.

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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Contact info:
Agency: TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
PI: N/A
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: COLLEGE STATION
state: TX
postal: 77843-3146
country: UNITED STATES
Availability date: 19770616
Metadata version: 10
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:25:52+00
Editdate: 2022-08-06 19:15:00+00