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Bathythermograph (MBT), ocean station data from ABSECON, ALAMINOS, and others in the Barents Sea, Bering Sea, and others from 1963-09-11 to 1966-12-20 (NCEI Accession 6600000)

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: January 29, 2026 | Last Modified: 2022-08-17T00:00:00.000+00:00
This dataset includes bathythermograph (MBT), ocean station data from ABSECON, ALAMINOS, ANTON BRUUN, ARGO, ATLANTIS II, BERING STRAIT, C. H. DAVIS, CAPE ST MARY, CASCO, CHOFU MARU, CRAWFORD, CS Cable Enterprise, CSS Baffin, EASTWARD, ESCANABA, F/V Kagoshima Maru, FORSTER, GERONIMO, H. U. SVERDRUP, HALF MOON, HUAYAIPE, HUMBOLDT, KEITEN-MARU, KOFU MARU, KOYO-MARU, KYMA, LYNCH, MCCULLOCH, NERPA, NEVELSKOY, NOAA Ship George B. Kelez, NOAA Ship MURRE II, NOAA Ship Surveyor, NOAA Ship Townsend Cromwell, OCEANEER, OMBANGO, ORLIK, PANULIRUS, R/V THOMAS G. THOMPSON, SAN PABLO, SANDS, SEIFU MARU, SHUMPU MARU, SIO BUOY, TANSEI MARU, TERITU, TOFINO, TURSIOPS, U.M. SHOKALSKIY, UNANUE, UNDAUNTED, UNKNOWN PLATFORMS OF CANADA, USC&GS Peirce, USCGC Barataria, USCGC Bibb, USCGC Burton Island, USCGC CHINCOTEAGUE, USCGC Campbell, USCGC Chautauqua, USCGC Duane, USCGC Eastwind, USCGC Edisto, USCGC Evergreen, USCGC Gresham, USCGC Klamath, USCGC Mendota, USCGC OWASCO, USCGC Rockaway, USCGC SPENCER, USCGC WACHUSETT, USCGC WINNEBAGO, USNS CHAIN, USNS ELTANIN, USNS James M. Gilliss, USNS Silas Bent, USS Atka, USS BLUE, USS HORNE, USS Rehoboth, USS Sheldrake, VAUBAN, VIDAL, VITYAZ, YAKUTAT, YANG MING 362, and ZVEZDA in the Barents Sea, Bering Sea, Chukchi Sea, Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia, Davis Strait, East China Sea, East Siberian Sea, English Channel, Greenland Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Japan Sea, Mediterranean Sea, North Atlantic Ocean, North Pacific Ocean, Northwestern Passages, Norwegian Sea, Philippine Sea, Red Sea, Sea of Okhotsk, South Atlantic Ocean, South China Sea, South Pacific Ocean, Southern Ocean, and Tasman Sea from 1963-09-11 to 1966-12-20. 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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6600000 AIR TEMPERATURE - DRY BULB AIR TEMPERATURE - WET BULB BAROMETRIC PRESSURE cloud amount/frequency cloud type DISSOLVED OXYGEN DYNAMIC DEPTH ANOMALY NITRATE NITRITE OXYGEN pH phosphate SALINITY SEA STATE Secchi depth SIGMA-T silicate SOUND VELOCITY TOTAL PHOSPHORUS WATER COLOR water depth WATER TEMPERATURE WAVE HEIGHT WAVE PERIOD WEATHER WIND DIRECTION WIND FORCE WIND SPEED ZOOPLANKTON BIOMASS bathythermograph - BT bathythermograph - MBT bottle meteorological sensor Secchi disk physical profile water chemistry ABSECON ALAMINOS ANTON BRUUN ARGO ATLANTIS II BERING STRAIT C. H. DAVIS CAPE ST MARY CASCO CHOFU MARU CRAWFORD CS Cable Enterprise CSS Baffin EASTWARD ESCANABA F/V Kagoshima Maru FORSTER GERONIMO H. U. SVERDRUP HALF MOON HUAYAIPE HUMBOLDT KEITEN-MARU KOFU MARU KOYO-MARU KYMA LYNCH MCCULLOCH NERPA NEVELSKOY NOAA Ship George B. Kelez NOAA Ship MURRE II NOAA Ship Surveyor NOAA Ship Townsend Cromwell OCEANEER OMBANGO ORLIK PANULIRUS R/V THOMAS G. THOMPSON SAN PABLO SANDS SEIFU MARU SHUMPU MARU SIO BUOY TANSEI MARU TERITU TOFINO TURSIOPS U.M. SHOKALSKIY UNANUE UNDAUNTED UNKNOWN PLATFORMS OF CANADA USC&GS Peirce USCGC Barataria USCGC Bibb USCGC Burton Island USCGC Campbell USCGC Chautauqua USCGC CHINCOTEAGUE USCGC Duane USCGC Eastwind USCGC Edisto USCGC Evergreen USCGC Gresham USCGC Klamath USCGC Mendota USCGC OWASCO USCGC Rockaway USCGC SPENCER USCGC WACHUSETT USCGC WINNEBAGO USNS CHAIN USNS ELTANIN USNS James M. Gilliss USNS Silas Bent USS Atka USS BLUE USS HORNE USS Rehoboth USS Sheldrake VAUBAN VIDAL VITYAZ YAKUTAT YANG MING 362 ZVEZDA Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Biological Station - Nanaimo NOAA Fisheries Scripps Institution of Oceanography Unknown - Canada Unknown - Congo Unknown - Ecuador Unknown - Japan Unknown - Malagasy Republic Unknown - Norway Unknown - Peru Unknown - Spain Unknown - Taiwan Unknown - United Kingdom Unknown - USA Unknown - USSR, Russia US National Oceanographic Data Center US Navy Naval Oceanographic Office Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution US National Oceanographic Data Center STATION S Aegean Sea Baffin Bay Barents Sea Bering Sea Chukchi Sea Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia Coastal Waters of Texas Columbia River estuary - Washington/Oregon Davis Strait East China Sea (Tung Hai) East Siberian Sea English Channel (La Manche) Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Greenland Sea (including Iceland Sea and North Greenland Sea) Gulf of Mexico Hudson Strait Japan Sea Labrador Sea Mediterranean Sea Molucca Sea Mozambique Channel New York Bight North Atlantic Ocean North Pacific Ocean Northwestern Passages Norwegian Sea Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument Philippine Sea Red Sea Sea of Okhotsk South Atlantic Ocean South China Sea (Nan Hai) South Pacific Ocean Southern Ocean Strait of Gibraltar Tasman Sea oceanography DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOC/NOAA/NMFS > National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOD/USNAVY/NAVOCEANO > Naval Oceanographic Office, U.S. Navy, U.S. Department of Defense WHOI > WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND DIRECTION EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND SPEED EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD PROPERTIES > CLOUD FREQUENCY EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD TYPES EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS > PLANKTON > ZOOPLANKTON EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > WATER DEPTH EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN ACOUSTICS > ACOUSTIC VELOCITY EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > NITRATE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > NITRITE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > OXYGEN EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > PH EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > PHOSPHATE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > SILICATE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > OCEAN COLOR EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > SECCHI DEPTH EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > SEA STATE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > WAVE HEIGHT EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > WAVE PERIOD EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > DENSITY EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY BATHYTHERMOGRAPHS MBT > Mechanical Bathythermographs SECCHI DISKS > SECCHI DISKS BUOYS Ships ABSECON (call sign: WC5071, ICES code: 31AZ) ALAMINOS (ICES code: 31OS) ANTON BRUUN (ICES code: 31AO) ARGO (ICES code: 31AR) ATKA (ICES code: 31AK) ATLANTIS II (call sign: KADC, ICES code: 31AN) BAFFIN (call sign: CGCL, ICES code: 18BA, 1957-1990) BARATARIA (ICES code: 31BZ) BERING STRAIT (ICES code: 31BS) BIBB (ICES code: 31BX) BLUE (ICES code: 31LB) BURTON ISLAND (ICES code: 31BI) C. H. DAVIS (ICES code: 31CD) CABLE ENTERPRISE (call sign: GNCH, ICES code: 74CE, 1964-2001) CAMPBELL (ICES code: 31CM) CAPE ST MARY (ICES code: 74CM) CASCO (ICES code: 31CS) CHAIN (ICES code: 31CI) CHAUTAUQUA (ICES code: 31CQ) CHINCOTEAGUE (ICES code: 31CC) CHOFU MARU (call sign: JCCX, ICES code: 49TU) CRAWFORD (ICES code: 31CF) DUANE (ICES code: 31DU) EASTWARD (ICES code: 31EZ) EASTWIND (ICES code: 31EW) EDISTO (ICES code: 31ED) ELTANIN (ICES code: 31ET, 1962-1975) ESCANABA (ICES code: 31EN) EVERGREEN (ICES code: 31EV) FORSTER (ICES code: 31FO) G. B. KELEZ (ICES code: 31KE) GERONIMO (ICES code: 31GN) GILLISS (ICES code: 31GI) GRESHAM (ICES code: 31GH) H. U. SVERDRUP (ICES code: 58S1, 1960-1989) HALF MOON (ICES code: 31HM) HORNE (ICES code: 31HR) HUAYAIPE (ICES code: 28HU) HUMBOLDT (ICES code: 31HU) KAGOSHIMA MARU (call sign: JLVC, ICES code: 49CG, 1981-2012) KEITEN-MARU (call sign: JGDW, ICES code: 49EK, 1974-2003) KLAMATH (ICES code: 31KL) KOFU MARU (call sign: 8JNZ, ICES code: 49KF) KOYO-MARU (ICES code: 49CY) KYMA (ICES code: 31KY) LYNCH (ICES code: 31LY) MCCULLOCH (ICES code: 31ML) MENDOTA (ICES code: 31ME) MURRE II (ICES code: 31MX) NERPA (ICES code: 90NE) NEVELSKOY (ICES code: 90NV) OCEANEER (ICES code: 31OX) OMBANGO (call sign: TKFL, ICES code: RCOM, 1959-1969) ORLIK (ICES code: 90OR) OWASCO (ICES code: 31OW) PANULIRUS (ICES code: 31PL) PIERCE (ICES code: 31PE) REHOBOTH (call sign: WD8121, ICES code: 31RH) ROCKAWAY (ICES code: 31RC) SAN PABLO (ICES code: 31SP) SANDS (ICES code: 31SD) SEIFU MARU (call sign: JIVB, ICES code: 49SH) SHELDRAKE (ICES code: 31SH) SHUMPU MARU (ICES code: 49SU) SILAS BENT (ICES code: 31SS) SIO BUOY (ICES code: 3119) SPENCER (ICES code: 31SC) SURVEYOR (ICES code: 31SU) TANSEI MARU (call sign: JIQY, ICES code: 49TD) TERITU (ICES code: 31TU) THOMAS G. THOMPSON (call sign: KGWT, ICES code: 31TT) TOFINO (call sign: EBHL, ICES code: 29TO, 1975-) TOWNSEND CROMWELL (ICES code: 31TC) TURSIOPS (ICES code: 31TI) U.M. SHOKALSKIY (call sign: UNAC, ICES code: 90SH, 1959-1980) UNANUE (ICES code: 65UN) UNDAUNTED (ICES code: 31UN) VAUBAN (call sign: TPFR, ICES code: 55VA, 1955-1987) VIDAL (ICES code: 74VI, 1954-1971) VITYAZ (ICES code: 90VI) WACHUSETT (ICES code: 31WC) WINNEBAGO (ICES code: 31WO) YAKUTAT (ICES code: 31YA) YANG MING 362 (ICES code: 21YM) ZVEZDA (ICES code: 90ZV) OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN > BARENTS SEA OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN > CHUKCHI SEA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN 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 > MEDITERRANEAN SEA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORWEGIAN SEA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > RED SEA 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 > 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 > SOUTHERN OCEAN

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