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NODC produced fifteen (15) CD-ROMs containing WOCE Version 2 project data in the fall of 2000. The WOCE Global Data Version 3.0 suite consists of two (2) DVDs. The WOCE Global Data Version 3.0 DVD suite consists of 2 single-sided and double-layered DVDs. A Web browser is required to fully explore and access the DVD contents. Data on these disks cover most of the global ocean and are from the period of 1990 to 1998, the intensive observation phase of WOCE. Some data from before and after this period are also included. The 2 DVDs were archived in NCEI Accession 0000841. The WOCE GDR data streams were: Bathymetry, Current Meters, Drifters, Hydrography, In-Situ Sea Level-Fast Delivery, In-Situ Seal Level-Delayed Mode, Profiling Floats, Satellite Sea Surface Height, Satellite Sea Surface Temperature, Satellite Surface Winds, Sea Surface Salinity, Shipboard Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers, Subsurface Floats, Surface Meteorology, and Upper Ocean Thermal. Presentations given during the WOCE and Beyond Conference are archived with this DVD product, but are not part of the two DVD set. NODC produced fifteen (15) CD-ROMs containing WOCE project data in the fall of 2000. This is version 2.0 of WOCE project data. Each CD was assigned an accession number for inventory purposes: Data Information Unit & Bathymetry - NCEI Accession 0000306 Disk 1 Hydrographic Programme - NCEI Accession 0000307 Disk 2 Upper Ocean Thermal - NCEI Accession 0000308 Disk 3 Subsurface Floats - NCEI Accession 0000309 Disk 4 Surface Velocity Programme - NCEI Accession 0000310 Disk 5 Current Meter Moorings - NCEI Accession 0000311 Disk 6 Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers - NCEI Accession 0000312 Disk 7 Sea Level - NCEI Accession 0000313 Disk 8 Surface Meteorology - NCEI Accession 0000314 Disk 9 Surface Fluxes - NCEI Accession 0000315 Disk 10 Satellite Data - Sea Surface Height - NCEI Accession 0000316 Disk 11 Satellite Data - Sea Surface Temperature - NCEI Accession 0000317 Disk 12 Satellite Data - Wind Data - NCEI Accession 0000318 Disk 13 eWOCE: Electronic Atlas of WOCE Data - NCEI Accession 0000319 Disk 14 Hydrographic Programme - BATS/HOTS Timeseries - NCEI Accession 0000320 Disk 15 NODC produced twelve (12) CD-ROMs containing WOCE Version 1 project data in the summer of 1998. Each CD was assigned an accession number for inventory purposes. WOCE CD Data Information Unit & Bathymetry - NCEI Accession 9800097 WOCE CD Hydrography - NCEI Accession 9900198 WOCE CD Hydrographic Products - NCEI Accession 9800099 WOCE CD XBTs - NCEI Accession 9800100 WOCE CD Subsurface Floats - NCEI Accession 9800101 WOCE CD Drifting Buoys - NCEI Accession 9800102 WOCE CD Current Meters - NCEI Accession 9800103 WOCE CD ADCP - NCEI Accession 9800104 WOCE CD Sea Level - NCEI Accession 9800105 WOCE CD Surface Meteorology - NCEI Accession 9800106 WOCE CD Surface Fluxes - NCEI Accession 9800107 WOCE CD Satellite Altimetry & Temperature - NCEI Accession 9800108 WOCE was a part of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) which used resources from nearly 30 countries to make unprecedented in-situ and satellite observations of the global ocean between 1990-1998, and to observe poorly-understood but important physical processes. The Scientific Steering Group (SSG) of WOCE oversaw the scientific development and the International Project Office (IPO) managed the implementation of the Experiment. In support of data and information distribution, a suite of CDROM/DVDs have been prepared for each of the WOCE Data Assembly Centers (DACs) and Specialized Analysis Centers (SACs). 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 https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/metadata/landing-page/bin/gfx?id=gov.noaa.nodc:NODC-WOCE-GDR Preview graphic PNG 0000306 0000307 0000308 0000309 0000310 0000311 0000312 0000313 0000314 0000315 0000316 0000317 0000318 0000319 0000320 0000841 9800097 9800099 9800100 9800101 9800102 9800103 9800104 9800105 9800106 9800107 9800108 9900198 NCEI ACCESSION NUMBER 2000-03-01 publication ABSOLUTE HUMIDITY ABSORPTION - SCATTERING - ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS AIR TEMPERATURE AIR TEMPERATURE - WET BULB ALTIMETRY - SEA SURFACE HEIGHT AMMONIA (NH3) ARGON BAROMETRIC PRESSURE BATHYMETRY CARBON - TOTAL ORGANIC Carbon tetrachloride (CCL4) CHLOROFLUOROCARBON-11 (CFC-11) CHLOROFLUOROCARBON-113 (CFC-113) CHLOROFLUOROCARBON-12 (CFC-12) CHLOROPHYLL A CONDUCTIVITY CURRENT DIRECTION CURRENT METER - DIRECTION CURRENT METER - EAST-WEST COMPONENT (U) CURRENT METER - NORTH-SOUTH COMPONENT (V) CURRENT METER - SPEED CURRENT SPEED CURRENT SPEED - EAST/WEST COMPONENT (U) CURRENT SPEED - NORTH/SOUTH COMPONENT (V) CURRENT SPEED - UP/DOWN COMPONENT (W) DELTA CARBON-13 DELTA CARBON-14 Delta Oxygen-18 DEPTH - BOTTOM DEPTH - OBSERVATION DEPTH - SENSOR dew point DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON DISSOLVED OXYGEN FLUX - HEAT HELIUM HYDROCARBONS - TOTAL RESOLVED HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE LONGWAVE RADIATION - REFLECTED NEON NITRATE nitrate + nitrite content (concentration) NITRITE NUTRIENTS OPTICAL OXYGEN partial pressure of carbon dioxide - water pH PHAEOPIGMENTS phosphate POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS POSITION - GEOGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION RELATIVE HUMIDITY SALINITY SEA HEIGHT SEA LEVEL SEA LEVEL - DAILY AVERAGE SEA LEVEL - HOURLY AVERAGE SEA LEVEL - MEAN SEA LEVEL - MONTHLY AVERAGE SEA PERIOD SEA STATE SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE SEA SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY SHORTWAVE RADIATION - REFLECTED silicate SOLAR RADIATION - ATMOSPHERIC SOUND VELOCITY suspended solids TIDE HEIGHT TIDE STAGE total alkalinity TOTAL CARBON TOTAL PHOSPHORUS Tritium (Hydrogen isotope) turbidity WATER DENSITY water depth WATER TEMPERATURE WAVE HEIGHT WAVE PERIOD WAVE SPECTRA WIND DIRECTION WIND SPEED theme NODC DATA TYPES THESAURUS ADCP AVHRR bathythermograph - XBT bottle buoy buoy - drifting buoy CTD current meter current meter - PCM echo sounder meteorological sensor mooring profiling float satellite sensor - active microwave satellite sensor - general sonar thermosalinograph tide gauge instrument NODC INSTRUMENT TYPES THESAURUS chemical continuous current measurements current measurements - surface currents derived products geological meteorological physical profile satellite data satellite photography survey time series underway theme NODC OBSERVATION TYPES THESAURUS AURORA AUSTRALIS COLUMBUS ISELIN CROMWELL DISCOVERY drifting buoy EDWIN LINK ENDEAVOR FIRST JUPITER FIXED PLATFORM OF UNITED STATES GYRE J. 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URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords information custodian ALPHA HELIX (call sign: WSD7078, ICES code: 31HX, 1966-) AURORA AUSTRALIS (call sign: VNAA, ICES code: 09AR, 1990-) CHARLES DARWIN (call sign: GDLS, ICES code: 74AB, 1985-2006) COLUMBUS ISELIN (ICES code: 32IC) CROMWELL (ICES code: 31WM) DISCOVERER (ICES code: 31DS) DISCOVERY (ICES code: 74DI) EDWIN LINK (call sign: WTL4798, ICES code: 33EL, 1987-2001) ENDEAVOR (call sign: WAUW, ICES code: 33EN) FIRST JUPITER (call sign: 3FXG6, ICES code: PAFJ) Franklin (call sign: VJJF, ICES code: 09FA, 1985-2002) GYRE (ICES code: 32GY) J. W. 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Contact NCEI for other distribution options and instructions. netCDF netCDF-3 WOCE, COARDS 18788.7 https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/NODC-WOCE-GDR HTTPS Web browser NCEI Dataset Landing Page Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. information https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/metadata/granule/geoportal/?from=0&size=10&esdsl=%7B%22query%22%3A%7B%22bool%22%3A%7B%22must%22%3A%5B%7B%22query_string%22%3A%7B%22analyze_wildcard%22%3Atrue%2C%22query%22%3A%22fileid%3ANODC-WOCE-GDR.*%22%7D%7D%5D%7D%7D%7D#searchPanel HTTPS Web browser Granule Search Search for data granules belonging to this collection (a granule is the smallest aggregation of data that can be independently described and retrieved). search series NCEI Accession 0000306 v1.1 was published. 2001-04-16T04:00:00Z NCEI Accession 0000307 v1.1 was published. 2001-04-16T04:00:00Z NCEI Accession 0000308 v1.1 was published. 2001-04-16T04:00:00Z NCEI Accession 0000309 v1.1 was published. 2001-04-16T04:00:00Z NCEI Accession 0000310 v1.1 was published. 2001-04-16T04:00:00Z NCEI Accession 0000311 v1.1 was published. 2001-04-16T04:00:00Z NCEI Accession 0000312 v1.1 was published. 2001-04-16T04:00:00Z NCEI Accession 0000313 v1.1 was published. 2001-04-16T04:00:00Z NCEI Accession 0000314 v1.1 was published. 2001-04-16T04:00:00Z NCEI Accession 0000315 v1.1 was published. 2001-04-16T04:00:00Z NCEI Accession 0000316 v1.1 was published. 2001-04-16T04:00:00Z NCEI Accession 0000317 v1.1 was published. 2001-04-16T04:00:00Z NCEI Accession 0000318 v1.1 was published. 2001-04-16T04:00:00Z NCEI Accession 0000319 v1.1 was published. 2001-04-16T04:00:00Z NCEI Accession 0000320 v1.1 was published. 2001-04-16T04:00:00Z NCEI Accession 9800097 v1.1 was published. 2002-11-19T19:40:22Z NCEI Accession 9800099 v1.1 was published. 2002-11-19T19:40:22Z NCEI Accession 9800100 v1.1 was published. 2002-11-19T19:40:22Z NCEI Accession 9800101 v1.1 was published. 2002-11-19T19:40:22Z NCEI Accession 9800102 v1.1 was published. 2002-11-19T19:40:22Z NCEI Accession 9800103 v1.1 was published. 2002-11-19T19:40:22Z NCEI Accession 9800104 v1.1 was published. 2002-11-19T19:40:22Z NCEI Accession 9800105 v1.1 was published. 2002-11-19T19:40:22Z NCEI Accession 9800106 v1.1 was published. 2002-11-19T19:40:22Z NCEI Accession 9800107 v1.1 was published. 2002-11-19T19:40:22Z NCEI Accession 9800108 v1.1 was published. 2002-11-19T19:40:22Z NCEI Accession 9900198 v1.1 was published. 2002-11-19T19:40:22Z NCEI Accession 0000841 v1.1 was published. 2002-12-20T18:07:58Z NCEI Accession 9800108 was revised and v1.2 was published. 2023-02-16T09:31:10Z NCEI Accession 9900198 was revised and v1.2 was published. 2023-02-16T13:53:44Z NCEI Accession 0000841 was revised and v1.2 was published. 2026-01-24T18:03:52Z NCEI Accession 0000841 was revised and v2.3 was published. 2026-02-06T15:48:14Z repository NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information NOAA created the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) by merging NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), and National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), including the National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC), per the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015, Public Law 113-235. NCEI launched publicly on April 22, 2015. 2015-04-22T00:00:00 asNeeded Metadata are developed, maintained and distributed by NCEI. Updates are performed as needed to maintain currentness. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information custodian ADCP ADCP Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler The Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) measures currents beneath a ship while underway. Sound signals sent from the moving ship bounce back to receivers aboard the ship. This provides a profile of water movement relative to the ship-precise modern navigation, allowing the ship's motion to be subtracted from the data. These devices are also used on moorings and profilers and, along with acoustic backscattering, measure animal biomass. Particles in the path of the sound waves, mostly plankton, reflect a small part of the sound energy back toward receivers, allowing researchers to make remote estimates of the sizes and numbers of animals present in the water column. Before the 1970's, the most technologically advanced instrument used to measure water velocity was known as a Doppler speed log. This evolved into the first commercial ADCP, produced in the mid-1970's, which used averaging. Later in the 1970's, the first vessel-mounted ADCP was developed to measure water velocity more accurately and to allow measurement in range cells over a depth profile. As instruments evolved, so did new techniques in Doppler signal processing. Initially, Doppler speed logs used simple analog signal processing methods, which are still used in some commercial speed logs today. However, the first ADCPs incorporated analog-to-digital signal conversion over a narrow communication bandwidth. Around 1990, this technique was developed into broadband signal processing. Since then, broadband ADCPs have been able to generate very accurate, real-time velocity measurements. AVHRR AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer A meteorological satellite [instrument] with two bands that is used for large area Earth observation at 1 km spatial resolution. Source: Glossary of GIS and Remote Sensing Terms, University of Vermont. (http://fwie.fw.vt.edu/tws-gis/glossary.htm; last accessed on 09/22/2004). Specifically, this instrument type is to be used to represent AVHRR/1: "There are two series of AVHRR instruments. Built by ITT Aerospace/Optical Division in the mid 1970s, the AVHRR/1 is a four-channel, filter-wheel spectrometer/radiometer (Appendix) while the AVHRR/2, built in the early 1980s, is identical except for the addition of Channel 5." See https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ecosys/cdroms/AVHRR97_d1/avhrr3.htm bathythermograph - XBT bathythermograph - XBT eXpendable BathyThermograph bottle bottle any type of water bottle sampling device Generic name for water collection device; usually used to determine temperature, salinity and provide water aliquots for measurement of a wide range of parameters; often referred to by a specific type of water sampling bottle, such as a Nansen or Niskin bottle. buoy buoy generic type of floating instrumentation package buoy - drifting buoy buoy - drifting buoy buoy - drifting buoy CTD CTD Conductivity-Temperature-Depth probe current meter current meter current meter current meter - PCM current meter - PCM profiling current meter current meter that is lowered (and perhaps raised) throught he water column. echo sounder echo sounder instrument used to determine water depth or bathymetry also known as an echosounder meteorological sensor meteorological sensor Any meteorological sensor, but also see specific instruments such as aerovane, anemometer, etc. mooring mooring use as an observation type profiling float profiling float PALACE and other types of profiling drifters any one of several types of free-drifting (floating) instrument packages that measure one or more water column parameters, such as temperature, salinity, etc., along with reporting the date, time, and location of the measurements taken over time. Examples include the P-ALACE or PALACE floats, drifting buoys, etc. satellite sensor - active microwave satellite sensor - active microwave A space-borne sensor actively observing in the microwave portion of the electromagnetic spectrum satellite sensor - general satellite sensor - general A generic class used for unknown satellite sensor type, or datasets consisting of blended, merged, or otherwise mixed observations from multiple satellite sensor types sonar sonar sound/sonic navigation and ranging Sonar (sound navigation and ranging or sonic navigation and ranging) is a technique that uses sound propagation (usually underwater, as in submarine navigation) to navigate, measure distances (ranging), communicate with or detect objects on or under the surface of the water, such as other vessels. Side-scan sonar (also sometimes called side scan sonar, sidescan sonar, side imaging sonar, side-imaging sonar and bottom classification sonar) is a category of sonar system that is used to efficiently create an image of large areas of the sea floor. [wikipedia] Bio-acoustic Sonar measures acoustic signals of plankton and zooplankton. [OOI] thermosalinograph thermosalinograph automated sea surface temperature and salinity instrument, usually attached to the hull of a ship Thermosalinograph is an automated Sea Surface Temperature and Salinity measurement system making measurement on board a ship using a water intake. [https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/tsg/about.php 2021-01-29] tide gauge tide gauge a device to measure the tidal height AURORA AUSTRALIS Flag: Australia Vessel Type: Oceanographic Research COLUMBUS ISELIN COLUMBUS ISELIN CROMWELL CROMWELL DISCOVERY DISCOVERY drifting buoy 99 = unknown country or institution. use this entry for the generic idea of a drifting buoy. EDWIN LINK ex R/V SEA DIVER ENDEAVOR Flag: United States of America Vessel Type: Container Ship DOB: IMO: Farrell Lines, Inc. FIRST JUPITER (Launched 1996 - Japan owned) FIXED PLATFORM OF UNITED STATES FIXED PLATFORM OF UNITED STATES GYRE Flag: United States Vessel Type: Oceanographic Research IMO: 7318999 DOB: 1973-10 J. W. POWELL WBA4695 USGS owned JAMES CLARK ROSS Updated information added below from ICES for the vessel JAMES CLARK ROSS from UNITED KINGDOM Code : 74JC Name : JAMES CLARK ROSS Flag : UNITED KINGDOM - GB (ISO Country Code) Call Sign : ZDLP Platform Class : Research vessel IMO : 8904496 Commissioned Date : 1991 Current Length : 99.04 Built : 1991 Notes : active as of 2010 Information Source : http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/living_and_working/research_ships/rrs_james_clark_ross/technical_data.php (URL) Lloyds URL : http://www.seasearcher.com/lmiu/vessels/overview.htm?vesselID=230076 KA'IMIKAI-O-KANALOA UNIV. OF HAWAII KAIMALINO SSP KILA KILA METEOR Believed to be the PNIRO ship Meteor that operated from 1938 to 1960 (and perhaps longer). MOANA WAVE Research Vessel for the University of Hawai'i (1984-1999) previous callsign WUS9293 Source: http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/VOS/REPORTS/201002.html http://agencia.fapesp.br/en/16526 Moana Wave recently sold to Universidade de Sao Paulo's Oceanography Institute IO-USP - MMSI 710000435, New Name Alpha Crucis - Call Sign PQ3082 - IMO 7319008 - Commission 2012-03 NODC Code 14AI. MULTIPLE SHIPS OF UNITED STATES MULTIPLE SHIPS OF UNITED STATES NA'INA CHARTER VESEL NEW HORIZON Flag: United States Type: Research Vessel IMO: 7723821 Operator: Scripps DOB: 1978-09 NOAA Ship Discoverer Flag: United States of America Vessel Type: Research Vessel (Oceanographic) DOB: 1966 IMO: 6600814 Hull Classification: R 102 History: Decommissioned as NOAA Ship DISCOVERER in 1997 NOAA Ship Ka'imimoana Updated information for this platform from ICES: Name : KA'IMIMOANA Country(s) : US: UNITED STATES (ISO Country Code) Platform Class : 31: Research vessel Call Sign : WTEU IMO : 8835231 Commissioned Date : 1996 Decommissioned Date : 2014 Current Length : 68.3 Built : 1989 Previous Name (Notes): TITAN WOD Code: 7426 JCOMMOPs Recruitment Date: 2000-01-01 Notes : Oceanographic RV. Built as the USNS Titan, became NOAA ship Ka'imimoana in 1996, became Ocean Titan in 2015 Information Sources: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USNS_Titan_(T-AGOS-15) - https://www.shipspotting.com/photos/1949285?navList=gallery&imo=8835231&page=1&viewType=normal&sortBy=newest Same Vessels Info: 33V1 - OCEAN TITAN General Comments: IMO confirmed in Miramar Code 33KM has been used since at least 2000. See relevant SHIPC version. OLEANDER Flag: Netherlands Antilles Vessel Type: Container Ship IMO: 8901406 MMSI: 306023000 DOB: 199010 callsign changed from PJJU to V7SX3 Source: http://www.vesseltracker.com/en/Ships/Oleander-I62151.html Type of ship: Cargo Ship IMO Number: 8901406 Flag: Marshall Islands MMSI Number: 538003740 Length: 118.0m Callsign: V7SX3 Beam: 20.0m R/V Knorr Title: R/V Flag: United States of America Vessel Type: Research Vessel (Oceanographic) DOB: 1970 IMO: 7738618 MMSI: 367246000 R/V THOMAS G. THOMPSON Use this platform for data attributed to R/V Thomas G. Thompson that were collected between August 1965 and December 1989. R/V Thomas G. Thompson (AGOR-9) Owned by US Navy, leased to University of Washington. Active dates: 1 August 1965 - December 1989 Renamed R/V Pacific Escort II (IX-517), Dec 1989 - May 1997 Renamed R/V Gosport (IX-517), May 1997 - Feb 2004 Sunk 14 Nov 2004 as part of NATO exercise (Source: http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/57/5709.htm, last accessed on 20 Dec 2011) R/V THOMAS G. THOMPSON Use this platform for data attributed to R/V Thomas G. Thompson that were collected between July 1991 and present. R/V Thomas G. Thompson (AGOR-23) Owned by US Navy, leased to University of Washington. Active dates: July 1991 (Source: http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/57/5723.htm, last accessed on 20 Dec 2011) R/V WECOMA R/V WECOMA is owned by the National Science Foundation and operated under a Cooperative Agreement by Oregon State University, College of Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences. RRS Charles Darwin Updated information from ICES for the vessel CHARLES DARWIN from UNITED KINGDOM Code : 74AB Name : CHARLES DARWIN Flag : UNITED KINGDOM - GB (ISO Country Code) Call Sign : GDLS Title : RRS Platform Class : Research vessel IMO : 8207941 Commissioned Date : 1985-02-13 Decommissioned Date : 2006-06-30 Current Length : 69.4 Built : 1984 Notes : NERC deep-sea research vessel until sold in July 2006 and renamed Ocean Researcher. Same Vessels Info 74OA - OCEAN RESEARCHER General Comments: Wikipedia claims a build date of 1985, which is incorrect. I saw her in Falmouth fully fitted out and undergoing acceptance trials in September 1984. 1985-02-13 is date of first cruise. In Jan. 2007, the name associated with the code 74AB was changed to OCEAN RESEARCHER. In Feb. 2007 an additional code was created for the OCEAN RESEARCHER. In 2009, the platform group agreed attribute change and code creation procedures. The name for 74AB was changed back to CHARLES DARWIN. RV Alpha Helix Updated information from ICES for the platform ALPHA HELIX from UNITED STATES. Name : ALPHA HELIX Flag : UNITED STATES - US (ISO Country Code) Call Sign : WSD7078 Title : RV Platform Class : Research vessel IMO : 6600905 Commissioned Date : 1966 Current Length : 41 Built : 1966 Notes : In 2007 University of Alaska Fairbanks sold the vessel to Stabbert Maritime Information Source : http://www.rvdata.us/voc/vessel (URL) Lloyds URL : http://www.seasearcher.com/lmiu/vessels/overview.htm?vesselID=70572 RV Franklin Additional information has been added to the vessel Franklin from AUSTRALIA Code : 09FA Name : Franklin Flag : AUSTRALIA - AU (ISO Country Code) Call Sign : VJJF Title : RV Platform Class : Research vessel Commissioned Date : 1985 Decommissioned Date : 2002 Current Length : 55 Notes : CSIRO National Facility research vessel. Information Source : http://www.marine.csiro.au/nationalfacility/franklin/ (URL) *General Comments:* http://www.jcommops.org/soop/reports/20013/soop20013.html verifies call sign VJJF RV Ke Xue Yi Hao Additional information and a name change request from ICES for code 76KE with [former] name KEXUE 1 from CHINA to be changed to Ke Xue Yi Hao. This is the same vessel as NODC Code 76SC, WOD code 6135, Ke Xue Ye Hao [former SCIENCE-1]. Existing Code : 76KE Name : Ke Xue Yi Hao Flag : CHINA - CN (ISO Country Code) Call Sign : BCCU Title : RV Platform Class : Research vessel IMO : 8427034 Current Length : 104 Built : 1980 Notes : Also known as KEXUE #1, Science 1 and Kexue-1 Information Source : http://e-ships.net/index/K4.shtml (URL) Lloyds URL : http://www.lloydsmiu.com/lmiu/vessels/overview.htm?vesselID=337036 Same Vessels Info 76SC - Ke Xue Yi Hao Approved by NOAA on 3/19/2010. UNKNOWN PLATFORMS OF UNITED STATES UNKNOWN PLATFORMS OF UNITED STATES