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Title: Turbidity, SOLAR RADIATION - ATMOSPHERIC and other data from JOHN V. VICKERS from 1992-11-18 to 1993-02-22 (NODC Accession 9500060)
Abstract: The Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) and other data set was collected as part of Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere and Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment. Data from 129 stations was collected from three legs of Ship JOHN V. VICKERS. The data was collected over a period spanning from November 18, 1992 to February 22, 1993. 1,181,256 records of CTD data was submitted by Dr. Robert Pinkel of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA.

The CTD data were collected during the Vicker's time on station during TOGA COARE using the Vickers' SEABIRD CTD system for Leg #1 and the first few casts of Leg #2. After that, UCSB's CTD was used. The data were later processed and converted into text files which have been compressed using standard UNIX compression. Each file contains pressure, temperature, conductivity, density, and salinity (columns) aligned in 0.1 meter bins (rows). The casts were made (nominally) from the surface to 500m every 12 hours as the Vickers drifted in the IFA. The title of each file contains the date and time (UTC) of the cast. All casts were made within 20 km of 2 deg South, 156 deg 15 min East.
Date received: 19950508
Start date: 19921118
End date: 19930222
Seanames:
West boundary: 156.2
East boundary: 156.2
North boundary: -2
South boundary: -2
Observation types: physical, profile
Instrument types: bottle
Datatypes: AIR TEMPERATURE, AIR TEMPERATURE - WET BULB, AMMONIA (NH3), BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, CARBON - TOTAL ORGANIC, CHLOROPHYLL A, CONDUCTIVITY, DEPTH - OBSERVATION, DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON, DISSOLVED OXYGEN, HYDROCARBONS - TOTAL RESOLVED, HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE, NITRATE, NITRITE, PCB, pH, PHAEOPIGMENTS, phosphate, SALINITY, silicate, SOLAR RADIATION - ATMOSPHERIC, SOUND VELOCITY, suspended solids, TIDE HEIGHT, TIDE STAGE, total alkalinity, TOTAL CARBON, TOTAL PHOSPHORUS, turbidity, WATER DENSITY, WATER TEMPERATURE, WAVE HEIGHT, WAVE PERIOD, WIND DIRECTION, WIND SPEED
Submitter: Pinkel, Dr. Robert
Submitting institution: University of California San Diego; Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Collecting institutions: University of California San Diego; Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Contributing projects: TOGA
Platforms: John V. Vickers (3220)
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: SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY
PI: Pinkel, Dr. Robert
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: LA JOLLA
state: CA
postal: 92093-0955
country: UNITED STATES
Availability date: 19950508
Metadata version: 5
Keydate: 2002-11-19 19:40:22+00
Editdate: 2016-11-05 23:39:10+00