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Water temperature and salinity profile data from bottle and bathythermograph (BT) casts in the Global Ocean from multiple ships and institutions prior to 1961 (NCEI Accession 6000000)

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: January 29, 2026 | Last Modified: 2022-08-04T00:00:00.000+00:00
This dataset includes bathythermograph (MBT), ocean station data in the Alboran Sea, Andaman Sea or Burma Sea, Arabian Sea, Arctic Ocean, Baltic Sea, Barents Sea, Bay of Bengal, Bay of Biscay, Bay of Fundy, Beaufort Sea, Bering Sea, Bismarck Sea, Black Sea, Bristol Channel, Caribbean Sea, Chukchi Sea, Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia, Coral Sea, Davis Strait, East China Sea, East Siberian Sea, English Channel, Great Australian Bight, Greenland Sea, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Alaska, Gulf of Aqaba, Gulf of California, Gulf of Guinea, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Oman, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Gulf of Suez, Gulf of Thailand, Hudson Bay, Indian Ocean, Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland, Irish Sea and St. George's Channel, Japan Sea, Kara Sea, Kattegat, The Sound, Storebælt, Lillebælt, Laccadive Sea, Laptev Sea, Mediterranean Sea, North Atlantic Ocean, North Pacific Ocean, North Sea, Northwestern Passages, Norwegian Sea, Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, Philippine Sea, Red Sea, Rio de la Plata, Sea of Azov, Sea of Marmara, Sea of Okhotsk, Seto Naikai, Skagerrak, Solomon Sea, South Atlantic Ocean, South China Sea, South Pacific Ocean, Southern Ocean, Tasman Sea, White Sea, and Yellow Sea from 1902-08-09 to 1960-12-12. Data has been processed by NODC to the NODC standard Bathythermograph (MBT) (C128) and Ocean Station (C100) formats. The Oceanographic Station Data (C100) format contains physical-chemical oceanographic data recorded at discrete depth levels. Most of the observations were made using multi-bottle Nansen casts or other types of water samplers. A small amount (about 5 percent) were obtained using electronic CTD (conductivity-temperature-depth) or STD (salinity-temperature-depth) recorders. The CTD/STD data were reported to NODC at depth levels equivalent to Nansen cast data, however, and have been processed and stored the same as the Nansen data. Cruise information (e.g., ship, country, institution), position, date, and time, and reported for each station. The principal measured parameters and temperature and salinity, but dissolved oxygen, phosphate, total phosphorus, silicate, nitrate, nitrite, and pH may be reported. Meteorological conditions at the time of the cast (e.g., air temperature and pressure, wind, waves) may also be reported, as well as auxiliary data such as water color (Forel-Ule scale), water transparency (Secchi disk depth), and depth to bottom. Values of density (sigma-t) sound velocity, and dynamic depth anomaly are computed from measured parameters. Each station contains the measurements taken at the observed depth levels, but also includes data values interpolated to a set of standard depth levels. The C128 format is used for temperature-depth profile data obtained using the mechanical bathythermograph (MBT) instrument. The maximum depth of MBT observations is approximately 285 m. Therefore, MBT data are useful only in studying the thermal structure of the upper layers of the ocean. Cruise information, date, position, and time are reported for each observation. The data record comprises pairs of temperature-depth values. Temperature data in this file are recorded at uniform 5 m depth intervals.

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6000000 SALINITY Secchi depth WATER TEMPERATURE bathythermograph - BT bathythermograph - MBT bottle profile Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Pacific Oceanographic Group Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution US National Oceanographic Data Center Adriatic Sea Aegean Sea Alboran Sea Andaman Sea or Burma Sea Arabian Sea Arafura Sea Arctic Ocean Baffin Bay Balearic (Iberian) Sea Bali Sea Baltic Sea Banda Sea Barents Sea Bass Strait Bay of Bengal Bay of Biscay (Golfe de Gascogne) Bay of Fundy Beaufort Sea Bering Sea Bismarck Sea Black Sea Bristol Channel Caribbean Sea Celebes Sea (Sulawesi Sea and Mindanao Sea) Ceram Sea or Seram Sea Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Chukchi Sea Coastal Waters of Florida Coastal Waters of Louisiana Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia Columbia River estuary - Washington/Oregon Coral Sea Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary Davis Strait East China Sea (Tung Hai) East Siberian Sea English Channel (La Manche) Flores Sea Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Great Australian Bight Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Greenland Sea (including Iceland Sea and North Greenland Sea) Gulf of Aden Gulf of Alaska Gulf of Aqaba Gulf of Bothnia (Bay of Bothnia and Bothnian Sea) Gulf of California Gulf of Finland Gulf of Guinea Gulf of Mexico Gulf of Oman Gulf of Riga, Sound Sea Gulf of St. Lawrence Gulf of Suez Gulf of Thailand Halmahera Sea Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary Hudson Bay Hudson Strait Indian Ocean Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland Ionian Sea Irish Sea and St. George's Channel Japan Sea Jawa (Java) Sea Kara Sea Kattegat, The Sound, Storebælt, Lillebælt Labrador Sea Laccadive Sea Laptev (or Nordenskjöld) Sea Ligurian Sea Lincoln Sea Malacca Straits Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin Molucca Sea Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Mozambique Channel National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa New York Bight North Atlantic Ocean North Pacific Ocean North Sea Northwestern Passages Norwegian Sea Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument Persian Gulf (Gulf of Iran), Strait of Hormuz Philippine Sea Red Sea Rio de la Plata Rose Atoll Marine National Monument Ross Sea Sawu Sea Sea of Azov Sea of Marmara Sea of Okhotsk Selat Makasar (Makasar Strait) Seto Naikai (Inland Sea) Singapore Strait Skagerrak Solomon Sea South Atlantic Ocean South China Sea (Nan Hai) South Pacific Ocean Southern Ocean St. Lawrence River Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Strait of Gibraltar Sulu Sea Tasman Sea Teluk Bone (Gulf of Bone) Timor Sea Tyrrhenian Sea White Sea Yellow Sea (Hwang Hai) oceanography DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce WHOI > WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > SECCHI DEPTH EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY BATHYTHERMOGRAPHS MBT > Mechanical Bathythermographs CONTINENT > ASIA > WESTERN ASIA > BLACK SEA CONTINENT > EUROPE > EASTERN EUROPE > BLACK SEA OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN > BARENTS SEA OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN > BEAUFORT SEA OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN > CHUKCHI SEA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > BALTIC SEA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > BAY OF FUNDY OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > CARIBBEAN SEA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > DAVIS STRAIT OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF AMERICA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MEXICO OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF ST LAWRENCE OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > IRISH SEA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > MEDITERRANEAN SEA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > MEDITERRANEAN SEA > ADRIATIC SEA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH SEA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORWEGIAN SEA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > ARABIAN SEA OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > ARABIAN SEA > PERSIAN GULF OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > BAY OF BENGAL OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > RED SEA OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > CENTRAL PACIFIC OCEAN > AMERICAN SAMOA OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > CENTRAL PACIFIC OCEAN > HAWAIIAN ISLANDS OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > BERING SEA OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > GULF OF ALASKA OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > SEA OF JAPAN OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > SEA OF OKHOTSK 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 OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN > YELLOW SEA OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > ROSS SEA

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issued 1960-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00
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  "6000000",
  "SALINITY",
  "Secchi depth",
  "WATER TEMPERATURE",
  "bathythermograph - BT",
  "bathythermograph - MBT",
  "bottle",
  "profile",
  "Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Pacific Oceanographic Group",
  "Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution",
  "US National Oceanographic Data Center",
  "Adriatic Sea",
  "Aegean Sea",
  "Alboran Sea",
  "Andaman Sea or Burma Sea",
  "Arabian Sea",
  "Arafura Sea",
  "Arctic Ocean",
  "Baffin Bay",
  "Balearic (Iberian) Sea",
  "Bali Sea",
  "Baltic Sea",
  "Banda Sea",
  "Barents Sea",
  "Bass Strait",
  "Bay of Bengal",
  "Bay of Biscay (Golfe de Gascogne)",
  "Bay of Fundy",
  "Beaufort Sea",
  "Bering Sea",
  "Bismarck Sea",
  "Black Sea",
  "Bristol Channel",
  "Caribbean Sea",
  "Celebes Sea (Sulawesi Sea and Mindanao Sea)",
  "Ceram Sea or Seram Sea",
  "Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary",
  "Chukchi Sea",
  "Coastal Waters of Florida",
  "Coastal Waters of Louisiana",
  "Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia",
  "Columbia River estuary - Washington/Oregon",
  "Coral Sea",
  "Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary",
  "Davis Strait",
  "East China Sea (Tung Hai)",
  "East Siberian Sea",
  "English Channel (La Manche)",
  "Flores Sea",
  "Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary",
  "Great Australian Bight",
  "Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary",
  "Greenland Sea (including Iceland Sea and North Greenland Sea)",
  "Gulf of Aden",
  "Gulf of Alaska",
  "Gulf of Aqaba",
  "Gulf of Bothnia (Bay of Bothnia and Bothnian Sea)",
  "Gulf of California",
  "Gulf of Finland",
  "Gulf of Guinea",
  "Gulf of Mexico",
  "Gulf of Oman",
  "Gulf of Riga, Sound Sea",
  "Gulf of St. Lawrence",
  "Gulf of Suez",
  "Gulf of Thailand",
  "Halmahera Sea",
  "Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary",
  "Hudson Bay",
  "Hudson Strait",
  "Indian Ocean",
  "Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland",
  "Ionian Sea",
  "Irish Sea and St. George's Channel",
  "Japan Sea",
  "Jawa (Java) Sea",
  "Kara Sea",
  "Kattegat, The Sound, Storebælt, Lillebælt",
  "Labrador Sea",
  "Laccadive Sea",
  "Laptev (or Nordenskjöld) Sea",
  "Ligurian Sea",
  "Lincoln Sea",
  "Malacca Straits",
  "Mediterranean Sea",
  "Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin",
  "Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin",
  "Molucca Sea",
  "Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary",
  "Mozambique Channel",
  "National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa",
  "New York Bight",
  "North Atlantic Ocean",
  "North Pacific Ocean",
  "North Sea",
  "Northwestern Passages",
  "Norwegian Sea",
  "Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary",
  "Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument",
  "Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument",
  "Persian Gulf (Gulf of Iran), Strait of Hormuz",
  "Philippine Sea",
  "Red Sea",
  "Rio de la Plata",
  "Rose Atoll Marine National Monument",
  "Ross Sea",
  "Sawu Sea",
  "Sea of Azov",
  "Sea of Marmara",
  "Sea of Okhotsk",
  "Selat Makasar (Makasar Strait)",
  "Seto Naikai (Inland Sea)",
  "Singapore Strait",
  "Skagerrak",
  "Solomon Sea",
  "South Atlantic Ocean",
  "South China Sea (Nan Hai)",
  "South Pacific Ocean",
  "Southern Ocean",
  "St. Lawrence River",
  "Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary",
  "Strait of Gibraltar",
  "Sulu Sea",
  "Tasman Sea",
  "Teluk Bone (Gulf of Bone)",
  "Timor Sea",
  "Tyrrhenian Sea",
  "White Sea",
  "Yellow Sea (Hwang Hai)",
  "oceanography",
  "DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce",
  "WHOI > WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION",
  "EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > SECCHI DEPTH",
  "EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE",
  "EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY",
  "BATHYTHERMOGRAPHS",
  "MBT > Mechanical Bathythermographs",
  "CONTINENT > ASIA > WESTERN ASIA > BLACK SEA",
  "CONTINENT > EUROPE > EASTERN EUROPE > BLACK SEA",
  "OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN",
  "OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN > BARENTS SEA",
  "OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN > BEAUFORT SEA",
  "OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN > CHUKCHI SEA",
  "OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN",
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  "OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > BAY OF FUNDY",
  "OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > CARIBBEAN SEA",
  "OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > DAVIS STRAIT",
  "OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF AMERICA",
  "OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MEXICO",
  "OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF ST LAWRENCE",
  "OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > IRISH SEA",
  "OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > MEDITERRANEAN SEA",
  "OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > MEDITERRANEAN SEA > ADRIATIC SEA",
  "OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH SEA",
  "OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORWEGIAN SEA",
  "OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN",
  "OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN",
  "OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > ARABIAN SEA",
  "OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > ARABIAN SEA > PERSIAN GULF",
  "OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > BAY OF BENGAL",
  "OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > RED SEA",
  "OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > CENTRAL PACIFIC OCEAN > AMERICAN SAMOA",
  "OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > CENTRAL PACIFIC OCEAN > HAWAIIAN ISLANDS",
  "OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN",
  "OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > BERING SEA",
  "OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > GULF OF ALASKA",
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  "OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > SEA OF OKHOTSK",
  "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",
  "OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN > YELLOW SEA",
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  "OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > ROSS SEA"
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license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
modified 2022-08-04T00:00:00.000+00:00
publisher 
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  "name": "NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information",
  "@type": "org:Organization"
}
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spatial 102.88,-78.55,103.22,89.55
temporal 1902-08-09T00:00:00+00:00/1960-12-12T00:00:00+00:00
title Water temperature and salinity profile data from bottle and bathythermograph (BT) casts in the Global Ocean from multiple ships and institutions prior to 1961 (NCEI Accession 6000000)

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