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OAS accession Detail for 9400037
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Title: SeaWiFS calibration/validation historical pigment database 1993 (NCEI Accession 9400037)
Abstract: The Profiles of Chlorophyll data from NASA Goddard and Phytoplankton wet weight data in this accession was submitted by Mr. Charles R. McClain of US National Aeronautic and Space Administration, Washington DC. The data was collected in 15 different oceans and compiled in SeaWiFS calibration/validation historical pigment database. There are two versions of the data base. One contains approx. 180,000 records for depths of 0-10 meters. A second file contains approx. 330,000 records and includes all available depths provided by the individual investigators. Detailed Documentation is available for data format. For further information re this data set contact: Jim Firestone, Sr. Programmer/analyst, General Sciences Corp./SAIC Code 970.2 - SeaWiFS project, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771, Tel. (301)286-7108
Date received: 19940321
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West boundary: -180
East boundary: 180
North boundary: 82.02
South boundary: -84.06
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Submitter: McClain, Charles R
Submitting institution: US National Aeronautic and Space Administration
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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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Contact info:
Agency: US NATIONAL AERONAUTIC AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
PI: McClain, Charles
Address:
address: NASA HEADQUARTERS CODE SE
city: WASHINGTON
state: DC
postal: 20546-0001
country: USA
Availability date: 19940321
Metadata version: 9
Keydate: 2002-11-19 19:40:22+00
Editdate: 2025-04-08 16:04:16+00