| Summary: | Ocean station data were collected using seechi disk, meteorological sensors and bottle casts in the Northwest and Southwest Atlantic Ocean from 02 January 1983 to 11 November 1983. The physical profile data were collected using multiple ships by Directoria de Hidrografia e Navagacao in Brazil; National Oceanographic Data Center in Silver Spring, MD and France. The data was submitted in GF-3 format by Capt. Hugo Bernardi Jr. of Directoria de Hidrografia e Navagacao, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The data has been processed by NODC and is available in the C100 Ocean Station Data file format. The C100 format is used for 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%) 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, position, date and time are reported for each station. Each station contains the measurements taken at observed depth levels, but also includes data values interpolated to a set of standard depth levels.
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