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Global distribution of temperature and salinity profiles from profiling floats as part of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) project, from 1994-11-07 to 2002-01-19 (NCEI Accession 0000936)

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Temperature-Salinity profile and pressure data were collected by using profiling floats in a world-wide distribution from 07 November 1994 to 19 January 2002. Data were submitted by the Marine Environmental Data Service (MEDS) as part of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) project.

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0000936 HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE SALINITY SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE WATER TEMPERATURE profiling float physical profile

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title Global distribution of temperature and salinity profiles from profiling floats as part of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) project, from 1994-11-07 to 2002-01-19 (NCEI Accession 0000936)

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