Temperature profiles from XBT casts from the DECATUR and other platforms as part of the Marine Resources Monitoring, Assessment and Prediction (MARMAP) project from 30 August 1969 to 31 March 1983 (NODC Accession 8300047)

• 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; 8300047; water depth; WATER TEMPERATURE; bathythermograph - BT; bathythermograph - XBT; physical; profile; ARNI FRIDRIKSSON; BELKNAP; BIDDLE; BLANDY; DUTTON; ENDEAVOR; FLATLEY; FURMAN; GLOMAR CHALLENGER; J. A. FURER; JOAN MARIE; LARINDA; MANGOE; MOORE; PACBARONESS; RESEARCHER; SARATOGA; USCGC SHERMAN; USS BARRY; USS DAMATO; USS DECATUR; USS MAHAN; Unknown - Iceland; US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; National Oceanographic Data Center; US DOC; NOAA; NMFS; Northeast Fisheries Science Center; Narragansett Laboratory; US Navy; Ships of Opportunity; Marine Resources Monitoring, Assessment and Prediction (MARMAP); TROPICAL ATLANTIC STUDY OF TRANSIENT TRACERS IN THE OCEAN (TTO); Aegean Sea; Alboran Sea; Arabian Sea; Balearic (or Iberian) Sea; Bering Sea; Caribbean Sea; Greenland Sea; Gulf of Aden; Gulf of Mexico; Ionian Sea; Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin; Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin; North Atlantic Ocean; North Greenland Sea; North Pacific Ocean; Norwegian Sea; Persian Gulf (Gulf of Iran); Tyrrhenian Sea; oceanography; Greenland; Pacific; Western Basin; Mahan; Iceland; North Atlantic; North Greenland
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Temperature profiles were collected from XBT casts from the DECATUR and other platforms from 30 August 1969 to 31 March 1983. Data were collected by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and other institutions as part of the Marine Resources Monitoring, Assessment and Prediction (MARMAP) project. 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 permitted measurements to be obtained to 1830 m.