Dataset: XBT_SFX_PS

Name: SOFeX Polar Star XBT temperature profiles from USCGC Polar Star cruise PS02_2002 from the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand in 2002 (SOFeX project)
Published: 2007-03-05
Keywords: oceans

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Spatial Extent: N:-63.1383 E:-110.4883 S:-66.5933 W:-173.0283

Project:

Southern Ocean Iron Experiment (SOFeX)

Program:

Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB)

Iron Synthesis (FeSynth)

Principal Investigator:

Kenneth O. Buesseler (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Cynthia L. Chandler (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version:

05 March 2007

Version Date:

2007-03-05

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

SOFeX Polar Star XBT temperature profiles from USCGC Polar Star cruise PS02_2002 from the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand in 2002 (SOFeX project)

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Description

SOFeX Polar Star XBT temperature profiles

Methods & Sampling

Methodology: none contributed with data

Related information:
    Two plots of temperature from transects through the patch, were also
    contributed: EW transect and NS transect

DMO note:  The final day in the SOFeX study area was 21 February 2002
    after which the ship headed to Valparaiso, Chile.  The XBT data has not been 
    processed or quality controlled, and contains both test profiles away from the 
    SOFEX site and bad drops. The early part of the Valparaiso transect is included.

Data Processing Description

Change history: YYMMDD
    070305: XBT data file contributed by Ken Buesseler (WHOI)
            added to OCB by Cyndy Chandler (cchandler@whoi.edu)

Data Files

File
xbt.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 2.63 MB) MD5:4f913d7c46f9945ed47339dbd878565f Primary data file for dataset ID 2811

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Funding Sources

None available yet

Deployments

Deployment	Synonyms	Start Date	Platform	Investigator
PS02_2002	PS_2002_SOFeX	2002-02-11	USCGC Polar Star	Kenneth O. Buesseler (Chief Scientist)	data info

Instruments

Expendable Bathythermograph

Supplied Description:

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Expendable Bathythermograph

Acronym: XBT

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/132/

Generic Description:

An XBT is an expendable free-fall temperature probe that provides a profile of measured temperature against depth calculated from a fall-rate model. For example, two popular XBT models are the T-5 and T-7 probes from Sippican. More information is available from Lockheed Martin Sippican at URL: http://www.sippican.com/.

Parameters

Date and time formats are described in python strftime() syntax.

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
cast	cast number		cast
date	date sampling began (GMT) reported as YYYYMMDD		date
time	time sampling began (GMT) reported as hhmm		time
lon	longitude, negative denotes West	decimal degrees	lon
lat	latitude, negative denotes South	decimal degrees	lat
depth_xbt	depth reported by XBT	meters	depth
temp_xbt	temperature of the seawater, from XBT	degrees Celsius	temp

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Dataset: XBT_SFX_PS