Oceanographic station data from bottle casts from the ALKOR and Other Platforms from Ocean Weather Stations A (OWS-A), OWS-K, and OWS-M in the North Atlantic Ocean and the Norwegian Sea from 03 January 1963 to 11 December 1972 (NODC Accession 7500642)

• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: NOAA NCEI Environmental Data Archive 2016
• Subjects: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; 7500642; AIR TEMPERATURE - DRY BULB; AIR TEMPERATURE - WET BULB; BAROMETRIC PRESSURE; cloud amount/frequency; cloud types; DYNAMIC DEPTH ANOMALY; OXYGEN; SALINITY; SECCHI DEPTH; SIGMA-T; SOUND VELOCITY; WATER TEMPERATURE; WAVE DIRECTION; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE PERIOD; WEATHER; WIND DIRECTION; WIND SPEED; bottle; meteorological sensors; secchi disk; meteorological; physical; profile; visual estimate; visual observation; AEGIR; ALKOR; ARNI FRIDRIKSSON; DANA; FYRHOLM; HAFTHOR; HAVFISKEN; MARIA JULIA; SNAEFUGL; UNKNOWN; UNKNOWN PLATFORMS; Danish Institute for Fishery and Marine Research; Fisheries Laboratory - Lowestoft; Hafrannsoknastofnunin Reykjavik Oceanographic Institute; University of Kiel; Unknown - Denmark; Unknown - France; Unknown - Iceland; Unknown - United Kingdom; US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; National Oceanographic Data Center; OCEAN WEATHER STATION; North Atlantic Ocean; North Pacific Ocean; Norwegian Sea; oceanography; Pacific; Iceland; North Atlantic
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Oceanographic station data were collected from the ALKOR and Other Platforms within a 1-mile radius of Ocean Weather Stations A (6200N 03300W), OWS-K (4500N 01600W), and OWS-M (6600 N 00200E) and in transit. Data were collected by Danish Institute for Fishery and Marine Research and other institutions from 03 January 1963 to 11 December 1972. Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard Station Data II Output Format (SD2). Full format description is available from NODC at www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-Archive/sd2.html. The SD2 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.