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Nantucket Shoals Flux Experiment, Data Report I, Hydrography; 1976-10-04 to 1985-11-19 (NCEI Accession 8700242)

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The Nantucket Shoals Flux Experiment (1979 - 1980) was a multi-institutional effort to measure the flux of shelf water along the continental shelf south of Nantucket Shoals. Cooperating institutions and principal investigators were the Northeast Fisheries Center, National Marine Fisheries Service (W. Redwood Wright); Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Robert C. Beardsley); U.S. Geological Survey (Bradford Butman); and the University of New Hampshire (Wendell Brown) Data has been processed by NODC to the NODC standard Bathythermograph (XBT) (C116) format. The C116/C118 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. Prior to July 1994, XBT data were routinely processed to one of these standard types. XBT data are now processed and loaded directly in to the NODC Ocean Profile Data Base (OPDB). Historic data from these two data types were loaded into the OPDB.

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8700242 OXYGEN - DISSOLVED ORGANIC SALINITY SIGMA-T water depth WATER TEMPERATURE bathythermograph - BT bathythermograph - XBT bottle CTD physical profile ADMIRAL ARCISZEWSKI BELOGORSK BOGUSLAV KANARYJKA KIYO NOAA Ship Albatross IV NOAA Ship Delaware II NOAA Ship George B. Kelez University of New Hampshire US DOC/NOAA/NMFS/Northeast Fisheries Science Center/Woods Hole Laboratory US DOI/US Geological Survey/Woods Hole Science Center Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution US DOC/NOAA/NMFS/Northeast Fisheries Science Center/Woods Hole Laboratory Bay of Fundy New York Bight North Atlantic Ocean oceanography DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOC/NOAA/NMFS/NEFSC > Northeast Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOI/USGS/CMG/WHSC > Woods Hole Science Center, Coastal and Marine Geology, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior WHOI > WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > WATER DEPTH EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > OXYGEN EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > DENSITY EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY BATHYTHERMOGRAPHS CTD > Conductivity, Temperature, Depth XBT > Expendable Bathythermographs Ships ADMIRAL ARCISZEWSKI (call sign: SQHZ, ICES code: 67AA) ALBATROSS IV (call sign: WMVF, ICES code: 31A4, 1963-2008) BELOGORSK (ICES code: 90BK) BOGUSLAV (call sign: UFLR, ICES code: 90BW) DELAWARE II (ICES code: 316G) G. B. KELEZ (ICES code: 31KE) KANARYJKA (ICES code: 67AB) KIYO (ICES code: 49OY) OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > BAY OF FUNDY

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title Nantucket Shoals Flux Experiment, Data Report I, Hydrography; 1976-10-04 to 1985-11-19 (NCEI Accession 8700242)

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