Temperature profile data collected using XBTs from the BARTLETT from the Atlantic Ocean during the International Decade of Ocean Exploration / combination of USSR POLYGON project and US MODE (IDOE/POLYMODE) project, 06 December 1975 to 30 September 1978 (NODC Accession 7900206)

• 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; 7900206; water depth; WATER TEMPERATURE; bathythermograph - BT; bathythermograph - XBT; physical; profile; AKADEMIK ALEKSEY KRYLOV; AKADEMIK KURCHATOV; AKADEMIK SERGEY VAVILOV; AKADEMIK VERNADSKIY; ATLANTIS II; BARTLETT; CHAIN; ENDEAVOR; GILLISS; GYRE; KNORR; MIKHAIL LOMONOSOV; MOLDAVIYA; OCEANUS; PIOTR LEBEDEV; VIKTOR BUGAYEV; VITYAZ; Department of the State Oceanographic Institute - Odessa; Hydrographic Office of the USSR Navy; Marine Hydrophysical Institute; Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science; Russian Academy of Science; Institute of Acoustics; Russian Academy of Sciences; P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology; Texas A&M University; University of Rhode Island; Graduate School of Oceanography; US Navy; Office of Naval Research; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; INTERNATIONAL DECADE OF OCEAN EXPLORATION / combination of USSR POLYGON project and US MODE (IDOE/POLYMODE); North Atlantic Ocean; oceanography; Mikhail Lomonosov; North Atlantic
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Temperature profile data were collected using bathythermograph (BT/XBT) casts from BARTLETT in the Atlantic Ocean from December 6, 1975 to September 30, 1978. Data were submitted by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) as part of the International Decade of Ocean Exploration / combination of USSR POLYGON project and US MODE (IDOE/POLYMODE) project. Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard Universal Bathythermograph Output (UBT) format. Full BT descriptions are available at http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-Archive/bt.html. The UBT format contains temperature-depth profile data obtained using expendable bathythermograph (XBT) instruments. Cruise information, position, date and time were reported for each observation. The data record was comprised of pairs of temperature-depth values. Unlike the MBT Data File, in which temperature values were recorded at uniform 5 m intervals, the XBT data files contained temperature values at non-uniform depths. These depths were recorded at the minimum number of points (''inflection points'') required to accurately define the temperature curve. Standard XBTs can obtain profiles to depths of either 450 or 760 m. With special instruments, measurements can be obtained to 1830 m.