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Title: Temperature profiles from XBT casts from the AMERICAN ARGO and other platforms as part of the Marine Resources Monitoring, Assessment and Prediction (MARMAP) project from 1979-03-24 to 1979-05-23 (NCEI Accession 7900199)
Abstract: Temperature profiles were collected from XBT casts from the AMERICAN ARGO and other platforms from 24 March 1979 to 23 May 1979. Data were collected by the United States Coast Guard (USCG) 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 either 450 or 760 m. Special instruments permitted measurements to be obtained to 1830 m.
Date received: 19790614
Start date: 19790324
End date: 19790523
Seanames:
West boundary: -90.583333
East boundary: -66.333333
North boundary: 43.783333
South boundary: 24.433333
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Submitter:
Submitting institution: United States Coast Guard
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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.

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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: DELTA STEAMSHIP CO.
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: NEW ORLEANS
state: LA
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
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: 19790614
Metadata version: 9
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:28:39+00
Editdate: 2022-08-06 23:34:54+00