WATER TEMPERATURE and other data from NOAA Ship RESEARCHER, NOAA Ship MILLER FREEMAN and other platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, NW Atlantic and NE Pacific from 1987-01-08 to 1987-07-01 (NODC Accession 8700254)

• Format: Dataset
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• 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; DOC/NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC > Southeast Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; DOC/NOAA/NOS > National Ocean Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; DOC/NOAA/OAR/AOML > Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, OAR, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; 8700254; water depth; WATER TEMPERATURE; bathythermograph - BT; bathythermograph - XBT; physical; profile; CHAPMAN; DAVIDSON; FALSTRIA; MILLER FREEMAN; RESEARCHER; WHITING; US DOC; NOAA; NMFS; Southeast Fisheries Science Center; Pascagoula/Stennis, MS Laboratory; US DOC; NOAA; NOS - Norfolk, VA; US DOC; NOAA; NOS - Seattle, WA; US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory; US Navy; Ships of Opportunity; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC OCEAN CLIMATE STUDIES (EPOCS); SUBTROPICAL ATLANTIC CLIMATE STUDY (STACS); UNKNOWN; Gulf of Mexico; NE Pacific (limit-180); NW Atlantic (limit-40 W); oceanography; EPOCS > Equatorial Pacific Ocean Climate Studies; STACS; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE; BATHYTHERMOGRAPHS; XBT > Expendable Bathythermographs; SHIPS; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MEXICO; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; Pacific; Davidson; North Atlantic; Northwest Atlantic
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Temperature profile data were collected using XBT and BT casts from NOAA Ship RESEARCHER and other platforms in the Gulf of Mexico and Northwest Atlantic Ocean from 08 January 1987 to 01 July 1987. Data were collected by the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) Miami, Florida and other institutions with support from the Equatorial Pacific Ocean Climate Studies (EPOCS) and SubTropical Atlantic Climate Studies (STACS) projects. Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard Universal Bathythermograph Output (UBT) format. Full format description is available from NODC at www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-Archive/bt.html. The UBT file format is used for temperature-depth profile data obtained using expendable bathythermograph (XBT) instruments. Standard XBTs can obtain profiles at depths of about 450 or 760 m. With special instruments, measurements can be obtained to 1830 m. Cruise information, position, date, and time are reported for each observation. The data record comprises pairs of temperature-depth values. Unlike the MBT data file, in which temperature values are recorded at uniform 5m intervals, the XBT Data File contains temperature values at non-uniform depths. These depths are at a minimum number of points ("inflection points") required to record the temperature curve to an acceptable degree of accuracy. On output, however, the user may request temperature values either at inflection points or interpolated to uniform depth increments.