Temperature profile data collected using BT and XBT casts from the NOAA Ship MALOCOLM BALDRIDGE and another platforms in the North/South Atlantic Ocean and North/South Pacific Ocean from 31 October 1988 to 26 July 1989 (NODC Accession 8900197)

• 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; 8900197; water depth; WATER TEMPERATURE; bathythermograph - BT; bathythermograph - XBT; physical; profile; CHAPMAN; DISCOVERER; FERREL; MALCOLM BALDRIGE; MILLER FREEMAN; MT. MITCHELL; NEDLLOYD BANGKOK; NEDLLOYD KYOTO; PACDUCHESS; WHITING; US DOC; NOAA; NOS - Rockville, MD; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC OCEAN CLIMATE STUDIES (EPOCS); TROPICAL OCEAN GLOBAL ATMOSPHERE (TOGA); UNKNOWN; North Atlantic Ocean; North Pacific Ocean; South Atlantic Ocean; South Pacific Ocean; oceanography; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN; Pacific; North Atlantic
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Temperature profile data were collected using XBT and BT casts from the NOAA Ship MALCOLM BALDRIDGE and other platforms in the North/South Atlantic Ocean and North/South Pacific Ocean from 31 October 1988 to 26 July 1989. Data were collected by the National Ocean Service - Rockville with support from the Equatorial Pacific Ocean Climate Studies (EPOCS) and other 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.