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Temperature profile and water depth data collected from BROOKE using BT and XBT casts in the North Pacific Ocean from 1975-10-03 to 1977-11-18 (NCEI Accession 8900225)

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Temperature profile and water depth data were collected using BT and XBT casts from the BROOKE in the North Pacific Ocean and TOGA Area - Pacific Ocean. Data were collected from 03 October 1975 to 18 November 1977 by the US Navy; Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center (FNOC) 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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8900225 water depth WATER TEMPERATURE bathythermograph - BT bathythermograph - XBT physical profile ENTERPRISE USS BLANDY USS BRONSTEIN USS BROOKE USS BROWN USS COOK USS Halsey USS Harry E. Yarnell USS Higbee USS J. DANIELS USS J. STRAUSS USS John S. McCain USS JOUETT USS KIRK USS KITTY HAWK USS KNOX USS MCCLOY USS MOINESTER USS Orleck USS RATHBURNE USS ROARK USS SARATOGA USS Wainwright US Navy/Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center US Navy/Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center Adriatic Sea Aegean Sea Alboran Sea Arabian Sea East China Sea (Tung Hai) Gulf of Aden Gulf of Oman Indian Ocean Ionian Sea Japan Sea Ligurian Sea Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin North Atlantic Ocean North Pacific Ocean Persian Gulf (Gulf of Iran), Strait of Hormuz Philippine Sea South China Sea (Nan Hai) South Pacific Ocean Sulu Sea Tyrrhenian Sea oceanography DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOD/USNAVY/FNMOC > Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center, U.S. Navy, U. S. Department of Defense EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > WATER DEPTH EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE BATHYTHERMOGRAPHS XBT > Expendable Bathythermographs Ships BLANDY (ICES code: 31YD) BRONSTEIN (ICES code: 31ZF) BROOKE (ICES code: 314B) BROWN (ICES code: 31N9) COOK (ICES code: 31K4) ENTERPRISE (call sign: WAUY, ICES code: 32E3, -2006) HALSEY (ICES code: 31VY) HIGBEE (ICES code: 31QH) Harry E. Yarnell (ICES code: 31XY) J. DANIELS (ICES code: 31DJ) J. STRAUSS (ICES code: 31JS) JOUETT (ICES code: 31UQ) John S. MCCAIN (call sign: NBXY, ICES code: 31II, 1953-1978) KIRK (ICES code: 3197) KITTY HAWK (ICES code: 32KH) KNOX (ICES code: 3166) MCCLOY (ICES code: 31YM) MOINESTER (ICES code: 32MN) ORLECK (ICES code: 31OK) RATHBURNE (ICES code: 316R) ROARK (ICES code: 317R) SARATOGA (ICES code: 32SZ) WAINWRIGHT (ICES code: 31WG) OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > MEDITERRANEAN SEA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > MEDITERRANEAN SEA > ADRIATIC SEA OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > ARABIAN SEA OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > ARABIAN SEA > PERSIAN GULF OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > SEA OF JAPAN OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN > EAST CHINA SEA OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH CHINA AND EASTERN ARCHIPELAGIC SEAS OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH CHINA SEA

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