Temperature profiles from expendable bathythermograph (XBT) casts from NOAA Ship RAINIER in the Bering Sea - Coastal Waters of Western Alaska and Coastal Waters of S. Alaska in support of the Integrated Global Ocean Services System (IGOSS) project from 1985-08-29 to 1985-09-03 (NODC Accession 8500209)

• 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; DOC/NOAA/NOS > National Ocean Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; 8500209; DEPTH - OBSERVATION; WATER TEMPERATURE; bathythermograph - XBT; physical; profile; RAINIER; US DOC; NOAA; NOS - Seattle, WA; INTEGRATED GLOBAL OCEAN SERVICE SYSTEM (IGOSS); Bering Sea - Coastal Waters of Western Alaska; Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia; oceanography; IGOSS > Integrated Global Ocean Services System; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE; XBT > Expendable Bathythermographs; SHIPS; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > BERING SEA; Bering Sea; Pacific; Coastal Waters Of Southeast Alaska; Alaska
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XBT data were collected from NOAA Ship RAINIER in support of the Integrated Global Ocean Services System (IGOSS) project. Data were collected by the National Ocean Service (NOS) from 29 August 1985 to 03 September 1985. 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.