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OAS accession Detail for 7800821, meta_version: 9. Current meta_version is: 14
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| Title: | Marine bird sighting, wind, and other data from the DISCOVERER and other platforms as part of the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program (OCSEAP) from 02 July 1975 to 01 September 1978 (NODC Accession 7800821) |
| Abstract: | Marine bird sighting, wind, and other data were collected from the DISCOVERER and other platforms from 02 July 1975 to 01 September 1978. Data were collected by the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the University of Washington (UW) as part of the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program (OCSEAP). Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard F033 Marine Bird Sighting, Ship/Aircraft Census and the F101 Ocean Wind Time Series from Buoys formats. Full format descriptions are available from the NODC homepage at www.nodc.noaa.gov/. An analog file for this accession is available from NODC user services.
The F033 format contains data from field observations of marine birds made along ship or aircraft survey tracks. These data are collected to provide information on population density and distribution. Start and end position, date and elapsed time, speed and course, platform type and observing techniques are reported for each survey. Environmental information may include meteorological and sea surface conditions, distances to the shoreline and shelf break, ice characteristics within and outside each transect and surface debris, including oil slicks. Species data may include age, sex, color, plumage, number of individuals, direction of flight, behavior and food source association. Any number of species may be reported within one observation time span. The F101 format contains time series measurements of wind and other surface meteorological parameters taken at fixed locations. The instrument arrays may be deployed on automated buoys, ships, or towers. The data record includes values of east-west (u) and north-south (v) wind components at specified date and time. Wind values may have been averaged or filtered and are typically reported at time intervals of 10-15 minutes. Air temperature, atmospheric pressure, and dew point temperatures may also be reported. |
| Date received: | 19781115 |
| Start date: | 19750702 |
| End date: | 19780901 |
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| West boundary: | -173.833333 |
| East boundary: | -118.283333 |
| North boundary: | 72.5 |
| South boundary: | 33.233333 |
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| Submitting institution: | University of Washington |
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| 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: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON - SEATTLE PI: N/A Address: address: MARINE SCIENCES BUILDING city: SEATTLE state: WA postal: 98195 country: UNITED STATES Contact info: Agency: US DOI; FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE - ANCHORAGE PI: 251 Address: address: NOT AVAILABLE city: AUKE BAY state: AK postal: 99821 country: UNITED STATES |
| Availability date: | 19781115 |
| Metadata version: | 9 |
| Keydate: | 2003-10-24 17:28:07+00 |
| Editdate: | 2016-07-27 14:21:04+00 |