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Oceanographic data collected during the EX1503L2 (Tropical Exploration (Mapping II)) expedition on NOAA Ship OKEANOS EXPLORER in the North Pacific Ocean from 2015-05-16 to 2015-06-24 (NCEI Accession 0129881)

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0129881 AIR TEMPERATURE BAROMETRIC PRESSURE DEPTH - SENSOR RELATIVE HUMIDITY SOUND VELOCITY WATER TEMPERATURE WIND DIRECTION WIND SPEED barometer bathythermograph - XBT GPS gyrocompass humidity sensor meteorological sensor sound velocimeter temperature sensor thermosalinograph chemical meteorological navigational physical profile underway NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer NOAA Ocean Exploration NOAA Ocean Exploration Office of Ocean Exploration and Research's Integrated Product Team (OER IPT) North Pacific Ocean oceanography DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOC/NOAA/OOE > Office of Ocean Exploration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce mapping EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY > RELATIVE HUMIDITY EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND DIRECTION EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND SPEED EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN ACOUSTICS > ACOUSTIC VELOCITY EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE BAROMETERS > BAROMETERS COMPASSES GPS RECEIVERS > GPS RECEIVERS HUMIDITY SENSORS > HUMIDITY SENSORS TEMPERATURE SENSORS > TEMPERATURE SENSORS THERMOSALINOGRAPHS XBT > Expendable Bathythermographs Ships OKEANOS EXPLORER (call sign: WTDH, ICES code: 334A, 2008-) OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN

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issued 2015-07-14T00:00:00.000+00:00
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temporal 2015-05-16T00:00:00+00:00/2015-05-24T00:00:00+00:00
title Oceanographic data collected during the EX1503L2 (Tropical Exploration (Mapping II)) expedition on NOAA Ship OKEANOS EXPLORER in the North Pacific Ocean from 2015-05-16 to 2015-06-24 (NCEI Accession 0129881)

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