Description
Summary:The data in this accession were collected in Indian Ocean, NE Pacific (limit-180), NW Atlantic (limit-40 W), NW Pacific (limit-180) from ship LONG BEACH between September 24, 1989 to July 30, 1990. The real time data of water temperature at varying depth bathythermograph (XBT) was recorded in stripcharts by the US Navy. Stripcharts and radio logs were submitted to NODC from five cruises. The XBT data from these stripcharts have been digitized and are present in the current NODC data storage system in C116 file format.