Temperature profile data collected using BT and XBT casts from NOAA Ship RESEARCHER and THOMAS WASHINGTON in the Caribbean Sea and North/South Pacific Ocean from 1983-03-05 to 1983-07-26 (NODC Accession 8300158)

• 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; DOC/NOAA/OAR/AOML > Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, OAR, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; 8300158; water depth; WATER TEMPERATURE; bathythermograph - BT; bathythermograph - XBT; physical; profile; RESEARCHER; THOMAS WASHINGTON; US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory; Caribbean Sea; North Pacific Ocean; South Pacific Ocean; oceanography; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE; BATHYTHERMOGRAPHS; XBT > Expendable Bathythermographs; SHIPS; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > CARIBBEAN SEA; 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 NOAA Ship RESEARCHER and THOMAS WASHINGTON in the Caribbean Sea and North/South Pacific Ocean from 05 March 1983 to 26 July 1983. Data were collected by the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) in Miami, Florida. 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.