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Title: WATER TEMPERATURE and other data from USS ALFRED A. CUNNINGHAM from 1952-02-01 to 1958-07-21 (NCEI Accession 7500426)
Abstract: Data has been processed by NODC to the NODC standard Bathythermograph (MBT) (C128) format.

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.
Date received: 19750328
Start date: 19520201
End date: 19580721
Seanames: North Pacific Ocean, Philippine Sea, South China Sea (Nan Hai), South Pacific Ocean, Tasman Sea
West boundary: 118
East boundary: -118.02
North boundary: 34.97
South boundary: -43.17
Observation types: physical, profile
Instrument types: bathythermograph - BT, bathythermograph - MBT
Datatypes: water depth, WATER TEMPERATURE
Submitter:
Submitting institution: University of California - San Diego; Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Collecting institutions: University of California - San Diego; Scripps Institution of Oceanography, US Navy; Ships of Opportunity
Contributing projects:
Platforms: Alfred A. Cunningham (31I7)
Number of observations:
Supplementary information: 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.

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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: US NAVY; SHIPS OF OPPORTUNITY
Address:
address: 4640 JEWEL ST., 204
city: SAN DIEGO
state: CA
postal: 92109-31331
country: UNITED STATES
Availability date: 19750328
Metadata version: 8
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:21:15+00
Editdate: 2022-10-06 22:28:13+00