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OAS accession Detail for 8800313
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| Title: | Cloud amount/frequency, NITRATE and other data from WEATHERBIRD II and PANULIRUS in the NW Atlantic from 1954-06-07 to 1990-12-27 (NCEI Accession 8800313) |
| Abstract: | Ocean station data was collected in the North Atlantic Ocean from WEATHERBIRD II and PANULIRUS to support "The plankton ecology, related chemistry and hydrography of the Sargasso Sea : final report May 1, 1959-August 31, 1960. St. George's West, Bermuda : Bermuda Biological Station." The data were submitted by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Data has been processed by NODC to the NODC standard Ocean Station (C100) format. The Oceanographic Station Data (C100) 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: | 19881205 |
| Start date: | 19540607 |
| End date: | 19901227 |
| Seanames: | North Atlantic Ocean |
| West boundary: | -64.83 |
| East boundary: | -64.18 |
| North boundary: | 32.35 |
| South boundary: | 31.59 |
| Observation types: | physical, profile |
| Instrument types: | bottle, meteorological sensor, Secchi disk |
| Datatypes: | AIR TEMPERATURE - DRY BULB, AIR TEMPERATURE - WET BULB, BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, cloud amount/frequency, cloud type, DISSOLVED OXYGEN, DYNAMIC DEPTH ANOMALY, NITRATE, OXYGEN, pH, phosphate, SALINITY, SEA STATE, Secchi depth, SIGMA-T, silicate, SOUND VELOCITY, TOTAL PHOSPHORUS, WATER COLOR, water depth, WATER TEMPERATURE, WAVE HEIGHT, WAVE PERIOD, WEATHER, WIND DIRECTION, WIND FORCE, WIND SPEED, ZOOPLANKTON BIOMASS |
| Submitter: | |
| Submitting institution: | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Collecting institutions: | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Contributing projects: | STATION S |
| Platforms: | PANULIRUS (31PL), WEATHERBIRD II (320G) |
| Number of observations: | |
| Supplementary information: | The publication listed below is related to the data collection and is available from the NOAA Library: The plankton ecology, related chemistry and hydrography of the Sargasso Sea : final report May 1, 1959-August 31, 1960. St. George's West, Bermuda : Bermuda Biological Station, [1960?-. 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, NCEI reviews metadata for all accessions on an ongoing basis. Points of contact for this dataset include: Contact info: Agency: WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE PI: N/A Address: address: NOT AVAILABLE city: WOODS HOLE state: MA postal: 02543 country: UNITED STATES 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: | 19901231 |
| Metadata version: | 9 |
| Keydate: | 2002-11-19 19:40:22+00 |
| Editdate: | 2024-10-16 18:00:22+00 |