The Ocean Archive System searches our original datasets as they were submitted to us, not individual points or profiles. If you want to search and retrieve ocean profiles in a common format, or objectively analyzed fields, your better option may be to use one of our project applications. See: Access Data
OAS accession Detail for 8700066, meta_version: 4. Current meta_version is: 13
| << previous | |revision: 4| | next >> |
| accessions_id: | 8700066 | archive |
|---|---|
| Title: | Temperature profile and other 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 to 27 May 1975 (NODC Accession 8700066) |
| Abstract: | Oceanographic Station Data and temperature profile, 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: | These data files are in NODC SD2 format. This format is described at
http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-Archive/sd2.html and the codes used in this format are listed at http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-Archive/sd2.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. 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: | 4 |
| Keydate: | 2002-11-19 19:40:22+00 |
| Editdate: | 2008-02-28 18:56:10+00 |