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Title: Temperature profile data collected using bottle casts from the MOANA WAVE and other platforms from the Pacific Ocean during the INTERNATIONAL DECADE OF OCEAN EXPLORATION / North Pacific Experiment (IDOE/NORPAX) project, 20 February - 27 May 1975 (NODC Accession No. - 870066)
Abstract: Oceanographic Station Data and temperature, depth, and other data were
collected using meteorological sensors, secchi disks, and bottle casts
from MOANA WAVE and other platforms in the Pacific Ocean from
February 20, 1975 to May 27, 1975. Data were submitted by Scripps
Institution of Oceanography as part of the INTERNATIONAL DECADE OF OCEAN EXPLORATION / North Pacific Experiment (IDOE/NORPAX) project. Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard Oceanographic Station Data (SD2) and the Universal Bathythermograph Output (UBT) formats. Full format descriptions are
available at nodc.noaa.gov/.

The Oceanographic Station Data format contains physical-chemical
oceanographic data recorded at discrete depth levels. Most of the
observations were made using multi-bottle Nansen casts or other types of
water samplers. A small amount (about 5 percent) were obtained using
electronic CTD (conductivity-temperature-depth) or STD (salinity-
temperature-depth) recorders. The CTD/STD data were reported to NODC at
depth levels equivalent to Nansen cast data, however, and have been
processed and stored the same as the Nansen data. Cruise information
(e.g., ship, country, institution), position, date, and time, and
reported for each station. The principal measured parameters and
temperature and salinity , but dissolved oxygen, phosphate, total
phosphorus, silicate, nitrate, nitrite, and pH may be reported.
Meteorological conditions at the time of the cast (e.g., air temperature
and pressure, wind, waves) may also be reported, as well as auxiliary data
such as water color (Forel-Ule scale), water transparency (Secchi disk
depth), and depth to bottom. Values of density (sigma-t) sound velocity,
and dynamic depth anomaly are computed from measured parameters. Each
station contains the measurements taken at the observed depth levels, but
also includes data values interpolated to a set of standard depth
levels.
Date received: 19870213
Start date: 19750220
End date: 19750527
Seanames:
West boundary: -95.1
East boundary: -77.6
North boundary: 2.1
South boundary: -14.1
Observation types:
Instrument types:
Datatypes:
Submitter:
Submitting institution: University of California San Diego; Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Collecting institutions:
Contributing projects:
Platforms:
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: SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY
PI: N/A
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: LA JOLLA
state: CA
postal: 92093-0955
country: UNITED STATES
Availability date: 19870213
Metadata version: 1
Keydate: 2002-11-19 19:40:22+00
Editdate: 2006-12-14 16:23:40+00