Temperature profiles from XBT casts from the KNORR and other platforms as part of the International Decade of Ocean Exploration / International Ocean Studies / First Dynamic Response and Kinematics Experiment in the Drake Passage (IDOE/ISOS/FDRAKE) from 18 September 1978 to 13 October 1982 (NODC Accession 8300006)

• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: NOAA NCEI Environmental Data Archive 2015
• 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; 8300006; water depth; WATER TEMPERATURE; bathythermograph - BT; bathythermograph - XBT; physical; profile; ENDEAVOR; KNORR; US DOC; NOAA; NMFS; Northeast Fisheries Science Center; Woods Hole Laboratory; INTERNATIONAL DECADE OF OCEAN EXPLORATION / International Southern Ocean Studies / First Dynamic Response and Kinematics Experiment in the Drake Passage (IDOE/ISOS/FDRAKE); WARM CORE RINGS; North Atlantic Ocean; South Pacific Ocean; oceanography; Drake Passage; Pacific; Southern Ocean; North Atlantic
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Temperature profiles were collected from XBT casts from the KNORR and other platforms from 18 September 1978 to 13 October 1982. Data were collected by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) as part of the International Decade of Ocean Exploration / International Ocean Studies / First Dynamic Response and Kinematics Experiment in the Drake Passage (IDOE/ISOS/FDRAKE). 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 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 records are comprised of pairs of temperature-depth values. The XBT data files contain 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. Special instruments permit measurements to be obtained to 1830 m.