Salinity, water temperature, and other data from PRINCESS ALICE from the North Atlantic Ocean from 1901-07-09 to 1901-09-12 (NCEI Accession 9300189)

The Ocean Serial data in this accession was collected from NE Atlantic (limit-40 W) using yacht PRINCESS ALICE of Monaco. Oceanographic Station Data was recorded at two depth levels. The data containing 98 records from 25 stations was submitted to NODC by Dr. Harry Dooley, Oceanographic Museum of Monaco via International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, Denmark, via File Transfer Protocol. These data are in NODC SD2 Format.

The SD2 file format is used for 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%), 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, position, date and time are reported for each station. Each station contains the measurements taken at observed depth levels, but also includes data values interpolated to a set of standard depth levels.