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Temperature profile data collected using XBTs from the BARTLETT from the Atlantic Ocean during the International Decade of Ocean Exploration / combination of USSR POLYGON project and US MODE (IDOE/POLYMODE) project, 1975-12-06 to 1978-09-30 (NCEI Accession 7900206)

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Temperature profile data were collected using bathythermograph (BT/XBT) casts from BARTLETT in the Atlantic Ocean from December 6, 1975 to September 30, 1978. Data were submitted by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) as part of the International Decade of Ocean Exploration / combination of USSR POLYGON project and US MODE (IDOE/POLYMODE) project. Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard Universal Bathythermograph Output (UBT) format. 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.

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7900206 water depth WATER TEMPERATURE bathythermograph - BT bathythermograph - XBT physical profile AKADEMIK ALEKSEY KRYLOV AKADEMIK KURCHATOV AKADEMIK SERGEY VAVILOV AKADEMIK VERNADSKIY ATLANTIS II ENDEAVOR GYRE MIKHAIL LOMONOSOV MOLDAVIYA OCEANUS PIOTR LEBEDEV R/V Knorr USNS BARTLETT USNS CHAIN USNS James M. Gilliss VITYAZ ВИКТОР БУГАЕВ (VICTOR BUGAEV, VIKTOR BUGAYEV) Department of the State Oceanographic Institute - Odessa Hydrographic Office of the USSR Navy Russian Academy of Science, Institute of Acoustics Russian Academy of Sciences, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology Texas A&M University Ukraine Marine Hydrophysical Institute University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography US Navy/Office of Naval Research Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution INTERNATIONAL DECADE OF OCEAN EXPLORATION / combination of USSR POLYGON project and US MODE (IDOE/POLYMODE) New York Bight North Atlantic Ocean oceanography DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce RU/RAS/SIO > P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia U-MIAMI/RSMAS > Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami URI/GSO > Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island WHOI > WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION IDOE > International Decade of Ocean Exploration EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > WATER DEPTH EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE BATHYTHERMOGRAPHS XBT > Expendable Bathythermographs Ships AKADEMIK ALEKSEY KRYLOV (ICES code: 90AO) AKADEMIK KURCHATOV (call sign: UBLF, ICES code: 90AU) AKADEMIK SERGEY VAVILOV (call sign: UKOC, ICES code: 90SG, -1992) AKADEMIK VERNADSKIY (call sign: ULYN, ICES code: 90VE, 1969-1992) ATLANTIS II (call sign: KADC, ICES code: 31AN) BARTLETT (ICES code: 314U) CHAIN (ICES code: 31CI) ENDEAVOR (call sign: WCE5063, ICES code: 32EV, 1976-) GILLISS (ICES code: 31GI) GYRE (ICES code: 32GY) KNORR (call sign: KCEJ, ICES code: 316N, 1970-) MIKHAIL LOMONOSOV (call sign: UQIH, ICES code: 90ML, 1957-1992) MOLDAVIYA (ICES code: 90M3) OCEANUS (call sign: WXAQ, ICES code: 32OC, 1976-) PIOTR LEBEDEV (ICES code: 90LB) VITYAZ (ICES code: 90VI) ВИКТОР БУГАЕВ (call sign: ERES, ICES code: 90VC, 1976-1993) OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN

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