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Temperature profile data collected using BT and XBT from NOAA Ship RESEARCHER and other platforms in the Philippine Sea from 1971-10-06 to 1979-09-21 (NCEI Accession 8000151)

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Temperature profile data were collected using XBT and BT casts from NOAA Ship RESEARCHER and other platforms in Philippine Sea from 06 October 1971 to 21 September 1979. Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard Universal Bathythermograph Output (UBT) format. 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.

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Mote Marine Laboratory NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory Scripps Institution of Oceanography United States Coast Guard University of Washington Unknown - Germany (Includes Pre-Reunification Federal Republic Germany) US DOC/NOAA/National Ocean Service - Miami, FL US National Oceanographic Data Center US Navy Naval Oceanographic Office US Navy Ships of Opportunity US Navy/Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Unknown - Germany (Includes Pre-Reunification Federal Republic Germany) Aegean Sea Alboran Sea Arabian Sea Caribbean Sea Coral Sea East China Sea (Tung Hai) Greenland Sea (including Iceland Sea and North Greenland Sea) Gulf of Aden Gulf of Alaska Gulf of California Indian Ocean Ionian Sea Malacca Straits Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin New York Bight North Atlantic Ocean North Pacific Ocean Norwegian Sea Philippine Sea Red Sea South Atlantic Ocean South China Sea (Nan Hai) South Pacific Ocean Southern Ocean Tasman Sea Tyrrhenian Sea oceanography DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOC/NOAA/NOS > National Ocean Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOC/NOAA/OAR/AOML > Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, OAR, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOD/USNAVY/FNMOC > Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center, U.S. Navy, U. 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KERRI (ICES code: 32KE) MAHAN (ICES code: 31JI) MCCANDLESS (ICES code: 319M) MELLON (ICES code: 31M8) MELVILLE (call sign: WECB, ICES code: 318M, 1969-) MISPILLION (call sign: NHMX, ICES code: 311X) NAVASOTA (ICES code: 314N) NORWALK (ICES code: 31NL) POWER (ICES code: 31QP) REASONER (ICES code: 318R) ROBISON (ICES code: 31ZO) Researcher (call sign: WTER, ICES code: 3175, 1970-1987) SARATOGA (ICES code: 32SR) SEALIFT PACIFIC (ICES code: 32D1) SOLEY (call sign: TFDL, ICES code: 31YO) Sherman (ICES code: 311H) TANEY (ICES code: 31RT) THOMAS G. 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