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Temperature, salinity, and other data from bottle casts, CTD, and bathythermographs from MATSUSHIMA, MITO MARU and other platforms from 1972-07-02 to 1986-12-12 (NCEI Accession 8700238)

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This dataset contains temperature, salinity and other types of data collected using bottle casts, CTD, GEK (Geomagnetic Electrokinetography), XBT, DBT and MBT in the northwest Pacific Ocean. Data were provided by the Japan Oceanographic Data Center. Data formats for original data files (as presented in version 1.1/data/0-data/) are available upon request from NCEI. Data has been processed by NODC to the NODC standard Bathythermograph XBT Selected Depths (SBT) (C125) 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 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 UBT (C125) format contains temperature-depth profile data obtained using expendable bathythermograph (XBT) instruments. Cruise information, position, date and time were reported for each observation. The data records are comprised of pairs of temperature-depth values. Depths are selected by the originator - usually at standard horizons or some fixed interval. Standard XBTs can obtain profiles to depths of either 450 or 760 m. Special instruments permitted measurements to be obtained to 1830 m.

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8700238 AIR TEMPERATURE - DRY BULB AIR TEMPERATURE - WET BULB BAROMETRIC PRESSURE cloud amount/frequency cloud type DISSOLVED OXYGEN DYNAMIC DEPTH ANOMALY

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  "AIR TEMPERATURE - DRY BULB",
  "AIR TEMPERATURE - WET BULB",
  "BAROMETRIC PRESSURE",
  "cloud amount/frequency",
  "cloud type",
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  "OXYGEN",
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  "WATER TEMPERATURE",
  "WAVE HEIGHT",
  "WAVE PERIOD",
  "WEATHER",
  "WIND DIRECTION",
  "WIND FORCE",
  "WIND SPEED",
  "ZOOPLANKTON BIOMASS",
  "bathythermograph - BT",
  "bathythermograph - MBT",
  "bathythermograph - XBT",
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  "meteorological sensor",
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  "physical",
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  "AKI",
  "AMAGI MARU",
  "AMAMI",
  "ASAMA MARU",
  "ASHIZURI",
  "AZUMA",
  "BUZEN",
  "CHIBA-MARU NO. 2",
  "CHOFU MARU",
  "CHOKAI MARU",
  "ECHIZEN",
  "EIJIN MARU",
  "EIKO MARU",
  "ENOSHIMA MARU",
  "ESAN",
  "F/V Kagoshima Maru",
  "FUSA MARU",
  "FUSAMI MARU",
  "GENKAI",
  "GOTO",
  "HATERUMA",
  "HAYASUI MARU",
  "HAYATE",
  "HOKKO MARU",
  "HOKUSEI",
  "HOKUSEI-MARU",
  "ISAZU",
  "ISUZU",
  "IWAKI",
  "IWAKI-MARU",
  "KAIKO-MARU",
  "KAIYO",
  "KEIFU MARU",
  "KII",
  "KINSEI MARU",
  "KOFU MARU",
  "KOSHIKI",
  "KOTAKA MARU",
  "KOYO-MARU",
  "KUNIGAMI",
  "KUWANO",
  "KUZURYU",
  "MASHU",
  "MATSUSHIMA",
  "MEIYO",
  "MIDORI MARU",
  "MINABE",
  "MITO MARU",
  "MIURA",
  "MOTOBU",
  "MUROTO",
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  "SHINHAYABUSA MARU",
  "SHIOKAZE",
  "SHIRAFUJI MARU",
  "SHIRATORI MARU",
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  "SHOYO MARU",
  "SHUMPU MARU",
  "SHUNYO MARU",
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  "SOYA",
  "SOYO-MARU",
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  "TAMASHIMA MARU",
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  "TOKUSHIMA MARU",
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  "TOYAMA-MARU",
  "UNKNOWN PLATFORMS OF JAPAN",
  "USHIO",
  "WAKASA",
  "WAKATAKA MARU",
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  "US National Oceanographic Data Center",
  "Unknown - Japan",
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  "HOKUSEI-MARU (call sign: JPPU, ICES code: 49HO, 1957-1976)",
  "ISAZU (call sign: 8KOI, ICES code: 49BW)",
  "ISUZU (call sign: JPAB, ICES code: 49ID)",
  "IWAKI (ICES code: 49IF)",
  "IWAKI-MARU (ICES code: 49IW)",
  "KAGOSHIMA MARU (call sign: JLVC, ICES code: 49CG, 1981-2012)",
  "KAIKO-MARU (call sign: JEHK, ICES code: 49OI)",
  "KAIYO (call sign: 8LYT, ICES code: 49BE, 1964-1993)",
  "KEIFU MARU (call sign: JBOA, ICES code: 49FA, 1969-2000)",
  "KII (ICES code: 49VF, 1965-1972)",
  "KINSEI MARU (ICES code: 49ZD)",
  "KOFU MARU (call sign: 8JNZ, ICES code: 49KF)",
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  "KOTAKA MARU (ICES code: 49KX, 1962-1972)",
  "KOYO-MARU (ICES code: 49CY)",
  "KUNIGAMI (call sign: JLLB, ICES code: 49GJ)",
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  "KUZURYU (call sign: JPWJ, ICES code: 49KU)",
  "MASHU (call sign: 8KOL, ICES code: 49BY)",
  "MATSUSHIMA (ICES code: 49MW)",
  "MEIYO (call sign: JNQN, ICES code: 49GQ)",
  "MIDORI MARU (ICES code: 49DU)",
  "MINABE (call sign: JCAQ, ICES code: 49MV)",
  "MITO MARU (call sign: JEAE, ICES code: 49M5)",
  "MIURA (ICES code: 49MU)",
  "MOTOBU (call sign: JQWG, ICES code: 49DK, 1978-)",
  "MUROTO (call sign: JHIK, ICES code: 49M6)",
  "NOTO (ICES code: 49NO)",
  "OJIKA (call sign: JPEY, ICES code: 49OJ)",
  "OKI (call sign: 8KOG, ICES code: 49OB)",
  "OKINAWA (ICES code: 49OW)",
  "OSHORO MARU (call sign: JDVA, ICES code: 49OS, 1984-2014)",
  "OYASHIO MARU (call sign: JCMO, ICES code: 49OA)",
  "REISUI MARU (ICES code: 49RS)",
  "RISHIRI (call sign: JRFE, ICES code: 49RI)",
  "RYOFU MARU (call sign: JGZK, ICES code: 49RY, 1966-1995)",
  "SAGAMI (ICES code: 49GR)",
  "SATSUMA (call sign: JGWS, ICES code: 49ST, -1995)",
  "SEIFU MARU (call sign: JIVB, ICES code: 49SH)",
  "SHAMOKITA (ICES code: 49GL)",
  "SHIKINE (call sign: JBWG, ICES code: 49SQ)",
  "SHINANO (call sign: JQGX, ICES code: 49SN)",
  "SHINHAYABUSA MARU (ICES code: 49SX)",
  "SHIOKAZE (ICES code: 49VH)",
  "SHIRAFUJI MARU (call sign: JAXB, ICES code: 49ZC)",
  "SHIRATORI MARU (ICES code: 49RA)",
  "SHOYO (call sign: JCOD, ICES code: 492S)",
  "SHOYO MARU (ICES code: 49SY)",
  "SHUMPU MARU (ICES code: 49SU)",
  "SHUNYO MARU (ICES code: 49SC)",
  "SORACHI (call sign: 7LNU, ICES code: 49SR)",
  "SOYA (ICES code: 49SB)",
  "SOYO-MARU (ICES code: 49SO)",
  "SRIANAMI MARU (ICES code: 49VI)",
  "SUMA (ICES code: 49DY)",
  "SURUGA (ICES code: 49VE)",
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  "TAKASU MARU (ICES code: 49AL)",
  "TAKUYO (ICES code: 49TK)",
  "TAMASHIMA MARU (call sign: JK5026, ICES code: 49DV)",
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  "TENYO (ICES code: 49ET)",
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  "TOKUSHIMA MARU (ICES code: 49TP)",
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  "ZUIO MARU (ICES code: 49VB)",
  "OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN",
  "OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > SEA OF JAPAN",
  "OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > SEA OF OKHOTSK",
  "OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN",
  "OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN > EAST CHINA SEA"
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modified 2023-02-12T00:00:00.000+00:00
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temporal 1972-07-02T00:00:00+00:00/1986-12-12T00:00:00+00:00
theme 
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title Temperature, salinity, and other data from bottle casts, CTD, and bathythermographs from MATSUSHIMA, MITO MARU and other platforms from 1972-07-02 to 1986-12-12 (NCEI Accession 8700238)

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