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Title: Temperature profile data collected using XBTs from the KANA KEOKI from the Pacific Ocean during the INTERNATIONAL DECADE OF OCEAN EXPLORATION / North Pacific Experiment (IDOE/NORPAX) project , 06 February 1979 - 14 June 1980 (NODC Accession No. - 8100518)
Abstract: Temperature, depth, and other data were collected using bathythermograph (BT/XBT) casts from KANA KEOKI in the Pacific Ocean from February 6, 1979 to June 14, 1980. Data were submitted by University of Hawaii at Manoa as part of the INTERNATIONAL DECADE OF OCEAN EXPLORATION / North Pacific Experiment (IDOE/NORPAX) project. Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard Universal Bathythermograph Output (UBT) format. Full BT descriptions are available at http://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 record was comprised of pairs of temperature-depth values. Unlike the MBT Data File, in which temperature values were recorded at uniform 5 m intervals, the XBT data files contained 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. With special instruments, measurements can be obtained to 1830 m.


Date received: 19810424
Start date: 19790206
End date: 19800614
Seanames: North Pacific Ocean
West boundary: -164
East boundary: -149
North boundary: 21
South boundary: -17
Observation types: physical, profile
Instrument types: bathythermograph - BT, bathythermograph - XBT
Datatypes: TEMPERATURE - WATER, water depth, WATER TEMPERATURE
Submitter:
Submitting institution: University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Collecting institutions: University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Contributing projects: IDOE/NORPAX
Platforms: KANA KEOKI (32KK)
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: UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII
PI: N/A
Address:
address: 2525 CORREA ROAD, HIG331
city: HONOLULU
state: HI
postal: 96822
country: UNITED STATES
Availability date: 19810424
Metadata version: 1
Keydate: 2002-11-19 19:40:22+00
Editdate: 2006-12-12 22:48:06+00