Bathythermograph (MBT), ocean station data from ABSECON, AEGIR, and others in the Andaman Sea or Burma Sea, Arabian Sea, and others from 1943-07-26 to 1966-01-06 (NCEI Accession 6500000)

This dataset includes bathythermograph (MBT), ocean station data from ABSECON, AEGIR, ALAMINOS, ANTON BRUUN, ARGO, ARLIS II, ATLANTIS II, BANNOCK, BERING STRAIT, BIOMAR I, BROWN BEAR, BYRANT CRUISER, C. H. DAVIS, CAPE ST MARY, CASCO, CASTLE ROCK, COMPASS ISLAND, COOK INLET, CORIOLIS, CRAWFORD, DROGUE, EASTWARD, ESCANABA, GERONIMO, GOSNOLD, HMS Loch Alvie, HOKUSEI-MARU, HUAYAIPE, HUMBOLDT, JENS VAEVER, LYNCH, M. S. SNELLIUS, MCCULLOCH, MEVOOT YAM, NOAA Ship George B. Kelez, NOAA Ship Townsend Cromwell, OKHTA, OMBANGO, OSHORO MARU, OWEN, R/V ROBERT D. CONRAD, R/V THOMAS G. THOMPSON, SAKUMO, SANDS, SHUMPU MARU, SIO BUOY, TURSIOPS, UNANUE, UNKNOWN PLATFORMS OF CANADA, USC&GS Peirce, USC&GS Pioneer, USCGC Barataria, USCGC Edisto, USCGC Evergreen, USCGC Ingham, USCGC NORTHWIND, USCGC OWASCO, USCGC Staten Island, USCGS Explorer, USNS BLUE JACKET, USNS CHAIN, USNS James M. Gilliss, USS ABNAKI, USS BLUE, USS CHANTICLEER, USS Energy, USS Guardian, USS Hollister, USS JEFFERS, USS LITTLEHALES, USS Lawrence, VIDAL, VITYAZ, Vladimir Vorobyev, YAKUTAT, YAQUINA, and ZVEZDA in the Andaman Sea or Burma Sea, Arabian Sea, Arctic Ocean, Baltic Sea, Barents Sea, Bay of Bengal, Bay of Biscay, Bay of Fundy, Bering Sea, Caribbean Sea, Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia, Coral Sea, Davis Strait, East China Sea, English Channel, Greenland Sea, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Guinea, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Oman, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Gulf of Suez, Indian Ocean, Japan Sea, Kara Sea, Kattegat, The Sound, Storebælt, Lillebælt, Laccadive Sea, Mediterranean Sea, North Atlantic Ocean, North Pacific Ocean, Norwegian Sea, Philippine Sea, Red Sea, Sea of Okhotsk, Skagerrak, South Atlantic Ocean, South China Sea, South Pacific Ocean, Southern Ocean, and Yellow Sea from 1943-07-26 to 1966-01-06.

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.