gov.noaa.nodc:9300131 eng utf8 dataset NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information ncei.info@noaa.gov https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact HTTPS NOAA Contact Information Information for contacts at NCEI. information custodian 2026-02-05T21:00:03Z ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) Temperature profiles from MBT casts from a World-Wide distribution from MULTIPLE PLATFORMS from 1948-04-08 to 1968-12-14 (NCEI Accession 9300131) 2002-11-19 publication 2023-02-15 revision 1993 creation NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information gov.noaa.nodc:9300131 NCEI Archive Management System 9300131 NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information ncei.info@noaa.gov https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact HTTPS NCEI Contact Information Information for contacts at NCEI. information publisher NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) resourceProvider NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information author tableDigital Temperature profile data were collected from MBT casts from a World-Wide distribution. Data were collected from MULTIPLE PLATFORMS from 08 April 1948 to 14 December 1968. Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard Universal Bathythermograph Output (UBT) format. This file 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. 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. This dataset is available to the public for a wide variety of uses including scientific research and analysis. completed historicalArchive NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information ncei.info@noaa.gov https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact HTTPS NCEI Contact Information Information for contacts at NCEI. information pointOfContact asNeeded NCEI Accession 9300131 was revised and a new version of the archival package was published. Updates to existing archival packages may provide additional files or replace obsolete files. The latest version contains the most complete and up-to-date representation of this archival information package. 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Please see journal.txt in the /about directory for additional details on changes made. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/metadata/landing-page/bin/gfx?id=gov.noaa.nodc:9300131 Preview graphic PNG 9300131 NCEI ACCESSION NUMBER 1993-07-23 publication water depth WATER TEMPERATURE theme NODC DATA TYPES THESAURUS bathythermograph - MBT instrument NODC INSTRUMENT TYPES THESAURUS profile theme NODC OBSERVATION TYPES THESAURUS SWORDKNOT platform NODC PLATFORM NAMES THESAURUS NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information dataCentre NODC SUBMITTING INSTITUTION NAMES THESAURUS Adriatic Sea Aegean Sea Alboran Sea Andaman Sea or Burma Sea Arabian Sea Arafura Sea Arctic Ocean Baffin Bay Balearic (Iberian) Sea Bali Sea Banda Sea Barents Sea Bass Strait Bay of Bengal Bay of Biscay (Golfe de Gascogne) Bay of Fundy Beaufort Sea Bering Sea Bismarck Sea Black Sea Caribbean Sea Celebes Sea (Sulawesi Sea and Mindanao Sea) Ceram Sea or Seram Sea Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Chukchi Sea Coastal Waters of Florida Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia Coral Sea Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary Davis Strait East China Sea (Tung Hai) English Channel (La Manche) Flores Sea Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Great Australian Bight Great Lakes Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Gulf of Aden Gulf of Alaska Gulf of Aqaba Gulf of California Gulf of Guinea Gulf of Mexico Gulf of Oman Gulf of St. Lawrence Gulf of Suez Gulf of Thailand Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary Hudson Bay Hudson Strait Indian Ocean Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland Ionian Sea Irish Sea and St. George's Channel Japan Sea Jawa (Java) Sea Kara Sea Labrador Sea Laccadive Sea Ligurian Sea Malacca Straits Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin Molucca Sea Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Mozambique Channel New York Bight North Atlantic Ocean North Pacific Ocean North Sea Northwestern Passages Norwegian Sea Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument Persian Gulf (Gulf of Iran), Strait of Hormuz Philippine Sea Red Sea Sea of Marmara Selat Makasar (Makasar Strait) Skagerrak Solomon Sea South Atlantic Ocean South China Sea (Nan Hai) South Pacific Ocean Southern Ocean St. Lawrence River Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Strait of Gibraltar Sulu Sea Tasman Sea Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary Timor Sea Tyrrhenian Sea place NODC SEA AREA NAMES THESAURUS oceanography theme WMO_CategoryCode 2012-09-15 publication DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce dataCentre Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Data Center Keywords 2026 revision 23 Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Greenbelt MD https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords HTTPS GCMD Keyword Forum Page Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords information custodian EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > WATER DEPTH EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE theme Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords 2026 revision 23 Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Greenbelt MD https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords HTTPS GCMD Keyword Forum Page Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords information custodian MBT > Mechanical Bathythermographs instrument Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Instrument Keywords 2026 revision 23 Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Greenbelt MD https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords HTTPS GCMD Keyword Forum Page Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords information custodian SWORDKNOT (ICES code: 31SZ) platform ICES/SeaDataNet Ship Codes CONTINENT > ASIA > WESTERN ASIA > BLACK SEA CONTINENT > EUROPE > EASTERN EUROPE > BLACK SEA CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > CANADA > GREAT LAKES, CANADA CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > GREAT LAKES OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN > BARENTS SEA OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN > BEAUFORT SEA OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN > CHUKCHI SEA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > BAY OF FUNDY OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > CARIBBEAN SEA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > DAVIS STRAIT OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF AMERICA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MEXICO OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF ST LAWRENCE OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > IRISH SEA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > MEDITERRANEAN SEA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > MEDITERRANEAN SEA > ADRIATIC SEA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH SEA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORWEGIAN SEA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > ARABIAN SEA OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > ARABIAN SEA > PERSIAN GULF OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > BAY OF BENGAL OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > RED SEA OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > CENTRAL PACIFIC OCEAN > HAWAIIAN ISLANDS OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > BERING SEA OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > GULF OF ALASKA OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > SEA OF JAPAN OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN > EAST CHINA SEA OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH CHINA AND EASTERN ARCHIPELAGIC SEAS OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH CHINA SEA OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN place Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords 2026 revision 23 Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Greenbelt MD https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords HTTPS GCMD Keyword Forum Page Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords information custodian accessLevel: public otherRestrictions Cite as: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (2002). Temperature profiles from MBT casts from a World-Wide distribution from MULTIPLE PLATFORMS from 1948-04-08 to 1968-12-14 (NCEI Accession 9300131). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/9300131. Accessed [date]. Distribution liability: NOAA and NCEI make no warranty, expressed or implied, regarding these data, nor does the fact of distribution constitute such a warranty. NOAA and NCEI cannot assume liability for any damages caused by any errors or omissions in these data. 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You may copy and paste the FTP link to the data into an FTP client (e.g., FileZilla or WinSCP). download dataset NCEI Accession 9300131 v1.1 was published. 2002-11-19T19:40:22Z NCEI Accession 9300131 v1.1 publication https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/9300131/1.1 HTTPS NCEI Accession 9300131 v1.1 published 2002-11-19T19:40:22Z download NCEI Accession 9300131 was revised and v2.2 was published. Updates were received for this dataset. These updates were copied into the data/0-data/ directory of this accession. These updates may provide additional files or replace obsolete files. This version contains the most complete and up-to-date representation of this archival information package. All of the files received prior to this update are available in the preceding version of this accession. 2002-11-19T19:40:22Z NCEI Accession 9300131 v2.2 publication https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/9300131/2.2 HTTPS NCEI Accession 9300131 v2.2 published 2002-11-19T19:40:22Z download NCEI Accession 9300131 was revised and v2.3 was published. Additional metadata files were received or created for this dataset. These updates were copied into the about/ directory of this accession. These updates may provide additional files or replace obsolete files. This version contains the most complete and up-to-date representation of this archival information package. All of the files received prior to this update are available in the preceding version of this accession. 2013-03-18T02:02:24Z NCEI Accession 9300131 v2.3 publication https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/9300131/2.3 HTTPS NCEI Accession 9300131 v2.3 published 2013-03-18T02:02:24Z download NCEI Accession 9300131 was revised and v2.4 was published. Additional metadata files were received or created for this dataset. These updates were copied into the about/ directory of this accession. These updates may provide additional files or replace obsolete files. This version contains the most complete and up-to-date representation of this archival information package. 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