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Title: WATER TEMPERATURE and other data from ANRO AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA STAR and other platforms from 1985-11-18 to 1987-09-08 (NCEI Accession 8700386)
Abstract: Data has been processed by NODC to the NODC standard Bathythermograph XBT Selected Depths (SBT) (C125) format.

The UBT (C125) 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. Depths are selected by the originator - usually at standard horizons or some fixed interval. 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: 19871223
Start date: 19851118
End date: 19870908
Seanames: Arabian Sea, Arafura Sea, Bali Sea, Banda Sea, Bismarck Sea, Ceram Sea or Seram Sea, Coral Sea, Flores Sea, Indian Ocean, Jawa (Java) Sea, Laccadive Sea, Molucca Sea, Philippine Sea, Sawu Sea, Solomon Sea, South Pacific Ocean, Timor Sea
West boundary: 51.93
East boundary: 159.82
North boundary: 20.5
South boundary: -33.33
Observation types: physical, profile
Instrument types: bathythermograph - BT, bathythermograph - XBT
Datatypes: water depth, WATER TEMPERATURE
Submitter:
Submitting institution: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
Collecting institutions: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Unknown - Singapore, Unknown - United Kingdom, US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; National Oceanographic Data Center
Contributing projects:
Platforms: ANRO ASIA (SIAD), ANRO AUSTRALIA (09AH), AUSTRALIAN PROGRESS (09AK), AUSTRALIA STAR (09AG), BOTANY BAY (74B7), ENCOUNTER BAY (74B8), FLINDERS BAY (74FG), NIMOS (745P), SWAN REFFER (74SX)
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.

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Points of contact for this data set include:
Contact info:
Agency: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANIZATION
PI: N/A
Address:
address: CASTRAY ESPLANADE GPO BOX 1538
city: HOBART
state: TASMANIA
postal: 07001
country: AUSTRALIA
Contact info:
Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER
Address:
Contact info:
Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER
Address:

In this accession, NCEI has archived multiple versions of these data. The latest (and best) version of these data has the largest version number.
Availability date: 19871223
Metadata version: 7
Keydate: 2002-11-19 19:40:22+00
Editdate: 2023-02-13 04:35:44+00