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Title: Temperature profile data collected using CTD casts from the NOAA Ship RESEARCHER in the North Atlantic Ocean from 21 November 1981 to 07 December 1981 (NODC Accession 8200194)
Abstract: Temperature profile and other data were collected using CTD casts from the NOAA Ship RESEARCHER in the North Atlantic Ocean from 21 November 1981 to 07 December 1981. Data were collected by the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) in Miami, Florida with support from Equatorial Pacific Ocean Climate Studies (EPOCS). Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard High-Resolution STD/CTD Data (F022) format. Full format description is available from NODC at www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-Archive/f022.html.

The F022 format contains high-resolution data collected using CTD (conductivity-temperature-depth) and STD (salinity-temperature-depth) instruments. As they are lowered and raised in the oceans, these electronic devices provide nearly continuous profiles of temperature, salinity, and other parameters. Data values may be subject to averaging or filtering or obtained by interpolation and may be reported at depth intervals as fine as 1m. Cruise and instrument information, position, date, time and sampling interval are reported for each station. Environmental data at the time of the cast (meteorological and sea surface conditions) may also be reported. The data record comprises values of temperature, salinity or conductivity, density (computed sigma-t), and possibly dissolved oxygen or transmissivity at specified depth or pressure levels. Data may be reported at either equally or unequally spaced depth or pressure intervals. A text record is available for comments.
Date received: 19820915
Start date: 19811121
End date: 19811207
Seanames: North Atlantic Ocean
West boundary: -85.1
East boundary: -79.1
North boundary: 4.6
South boundary: -10.6
Observation types: physical, profile
Instrument types: CTD, meteorological sensor
Datatypes: AIR TEMPERATURE - DRY BULB, AIR TEMPERATURE - WET BULB, BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, SALINITY, SEA STATE, VISIBILITY, water depth, WATER TEMPERATURE, WEATHER, WIND DIRECTION, WIND SPEED
Submitter:
Submitting institution: US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Collecting institutions: US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Contributing projects: EPOCS
Platforms: Researcher (3175)
Number of observations:
Supplementary information: These data files are in NODC F022 format. This format is described at
http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-Archive/f022.html
and the codes used in this format are listed at http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-Archive/f022.txt.

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 DOC; NOAA; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY; ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC METEROLOGICAL LABORATORY - MIAMI FL
PI: N/A
Address:
address: 4301 RICKENBACKER CAUSEWAY
city: MIAMI
state: FL
postal: 33149-1026
country: UNITED STATES
Availability date: 19820915
Metadata version: 2
Keydate: 2002-11-19 19:40:22+00
Editdate: 2008-05-13 18:47:36+00