Datensätze / Temperature profile data collected using XBTs from the PRESIDENT VAN BUREN from the Pacific Ocean during the Thermal Structure Monitoring Program in the Pacific (TRANSPAC) project, 24 February 1977 to 06 March 1977 (NODC Accession 8100232)


Temperature profile data collected using XBTs from the PRESIDENT VAN BUREN from the Pacific Ocean during the Thermal Structure Monitoring Program in the Pacific (TRANSPAC) project, 24 February 1977 to 06 March 1977 (NODC Accession 8100232)

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Summary

Art der Freigabe
ongoing release of a series of related datasets

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Bestätigung
automatisiert zertifiziert

Description

Temperature profile data were collected using bathythermograph (BT/XBT) casts from PRESIDENT VAN BUREN in the Pacific Ocean from February 24, 1977 to March 6, 1977. Data were submitted by Scripps Institution of Oceanography as part of the Thermal Structure Monitoring Program in the Pacific (TRANSPAC) project. Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard Universal Bathythermograph Output (UBT) format. Full BT descriptions are available at http://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 record was comprised of pairs of temperature-depth values. Unlike the MBT Data File, in which temperature values were recorded at uniform 5 m intervals, the XBT data files contained 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. With special instruments, measurements can be obtained to 1830 m.