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Title: WATER TEMPERATURE and other data from AIRCRAFT in the NW Atlantic from 1992-05-06 to 1992-05-08 (NCEI Accession 9200252)
Abstract: The water depth and temperature data were collected in he water depth and temperature data were collected in TOGA Area - Pacific (30 N to 30 S) as part of Louisiana-Texas (LATEX part C) Gulf of Mexico Eddy Circulation Study from aircraft between May 6, 1992 and May 8, 1992. The originator's bathythermograph aerial (AXBT) data containing 34 drops were submitted by Dr. Thomas Berger, Science Applications, Inc. Raleigh NC. The study was supported by grant no MMS 14-35-0001-30633. The data have been converted and are now available on line in C118 (AXBT) file format of NODC.

C118 data contains temperature-depth profile data obtained using expendable bathythermograph (XBT) instruments. Cruise information, position, date and time were reported for each observation. The data record was comprised of pairs of temperature-depth values. Unlike the MBT Data File, in which temperature values were recorded at uniform 5 m intervals, the XBT data files contained temperature values at non-uniform depths. These depths were recorded at the minimum number of points ("inflection points") required to accurately define the temperature curve. Standard XBTs can obtain profiles to depths of either 450 or 760 m. With special instruments, measurements can be obtained to 1830 m.
Date received: 19920917
Start date: 19920506
End date: 19920508
Seanames: Gulf of Mexico
West boundary: -94.06
East boundary: -90.5
North boundary: 27.8
South boundary: 26.6
Observation types: physical, profile
Instrument types: bathythermograph - AXBT, bathythermograph - BT, bathythermograph - XBT
Datatypes: water depth, WATER TEMPERATURE
Submitter: Berger, Dr. Thomas J.
Submitting institution: Science Applications International Corporation - Raleigh, NC
Collecting institutions: Science Applications International Corporation - Raleigh, NC
Contributing projects: LATEX PART C
Platforms: AIRCRAFT (3191)
Number of observations:
Supplementary information: The publication listed below is related to the data collection and is available from the NOAA Central Library:

1992 Louisiana/Texas Shelf Physical Oceanography Program Task C - Eddy Circulation Study, NODC Hydrographic Data Submission. [Raleigh, N.C. : The Corporation?], 1992.

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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Contact info:
Agency: SCIENCE APPLICATIONS, INC. - RALEIGH NC
PI: Berger, Dr. Thomas
Address:
address: 4900 WATERS EDGE DRIVE, SUITE 255
city: RALEIGH
state: NC
postal: 27606
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: 19920917
Metadata version: 9
Keydate: 2002-11-19 19:40:22+00
Editdate: 2023-02-15 13:32:20+00