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Bathythermograph (XBT) data from WADSWORTH in the East China Sea, North Pacific Ocean, and Philippine Sea from 1992-01-31 to 1992-02-28 (NCEI Accession 9200068)

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The data in this accession were collected in NE Pacific (limit-180) from ship WADSWORTH between January 31, 1992 to February 28, 1992. The real time data of water temperature at varying depth bathythermograph (XBT) was recorded in stripcharts by the US Navy. Radio logs are forms that contain time, weather latitude/longitude, vessel id, ship id, etc. These are radioed every two hours to some military center. One line per strip chart. Some strip charts have time /date /ship id /latitude /longitude annotated on the strip chart. Fourteen stripcharts and radio logs were submitted to NODC. The XBT data from these stripcharts have been digitized and are present in the current NODC data storage system in C116 file format.

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title Bathythermograph (XBT) data from WADSWORTH in the East China Sea, North Pacific Ocean, and Philippine Sea from 1992-01-31 to 1992-02-28 (NCEI Accession 9200068)

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