Oceanographic station, meteorological and other data from bottle casts from NOAA Ship ALBATROSS IV and other platforms as part of the Marine Resources Monitoring, Assessment and Prediction (MARMAP) project from 1978-10-22 to 1980-12-21 (NCEI Accession 8100544)
Oceanographic station, meteorological, and other data were collected from bottle casts from NOAA Ship ALBATROSS IV and other platforms from 22 October 1978 to 21 December 1980. Data were collected by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and other institutions as part of the Marine Resources Monitoring, Assessment and Prediction (MARMAP) project. Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard Oceanographic Station Data (SD2) format.
The Oceanographic Station Data 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 are 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 Oceanographic Station Data 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 are 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.
Dataset Citation
- Cite as: Heimerdinger, George; Scripps Institution of Oceanography (2003). Oceanographic station, meteorological and other data from bottle casts from NOAA Ship ALBATROSS IV and other platforms as part of the Marine Resources Monitoring, Assessment and Prediction (MARMAP) project from 1978-10-22 to 1980-12-21 (NCEI Accession 8100544). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/8100544. Accessed [date].
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Time Period | 1978-10-22 to 1980-12-21 |
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Supplemental Information | The publication(s) listed below are related to the data collection and are available from the NOAA Central Library: D. W. Behringe, G. P. Knapp, R. J. Stanley & H Stommel 1983 Hydrographic Station Data of Five Surveys of the Beta-Triangle in the Eastern North Atlantic, 1978-1981. Woods Hole, Mass. : Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1983. W. E. Haines, P.A. Mele, D.B.Camp, & S.E. Rennie, 1984 South Atlantic XBT Data 1979 - 1984, Cruises - Atlantis II 107-3, Dec 1979-Jan 1980, Knorr 104-5, Nov-Dec 1983, Woods Hole, Mass. : Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1983. Note: Metadata for this accession were extracted from a legacy database maintained by the U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). The design of the database did not exactly reflect the FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM). Principal Investigator (PI) and organization contact information accurately represents all available information from the legacy database at the time that this description was created. However, proper attribution of a PI to a specific institution or the role (submitting or collecting) taken by an institution may not be correct due to inexact mapping between fields in the legacy database and the CSDGM. Due to this uncertainty, the contact information was initially recorded in the Supplemental Information element of the CSDGM description. To develop more accurate metadata, NCEI reviews metadata for all accessions on an ongoing basis. Points of contact for this dataset include: Contact info: Agency: SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY PI: N/A Address: address: NOT AVAILABLE city: LA JOLLA state: CA postal: 92093-0955 country: UNITED STATES Contact info: Agency: WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE Address: address: NOT AVAILABLE city: WOODS HOLE state: MA postal: 02543 country: UNITED STATES Contact info: Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE - WOODS HOLE Address: address: 166 WATER STREET city: WOODS HOLE state: MA postal: 02543 country: UNITED STATES |
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