Oceanographic Station Data, temperature, and other data were collected using CTD and bottle casts from PARRAMATTA and other platforms in a world-wide distribution from October 4, 1903 to December 19, 1963. Data were submitted by Australia Navy. Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard Oceanographic Station Data (SD2) and the NODC standard Bathythermograph (MBT) (C128) format. The Oceanographic Station Data 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 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.

The water temperature and depth data in this accession was collected by Hydro Department of Birkenhead, Merseyside, UK. Three different ships were used to collect the 371 bathythermograph (XBT) observations spanning from May 19, 1983 to May 31, 1988. The data was submitted by Mr. P.F. Wainwright. The data has been processed by NODC and is available in C116 Bathythermograph (XBT) file format.

The water depth and temperature data were collected from UK ships CHALLENGER, DISCOVERY, DARWIN, FLEETWOOD, LIMA, OCEAN WEATHER STATION, and UNKNOWN PLATFORMS between July, 1988 and July, 1991. The originator's bathythermograph (XBT) data containing 557 profiles were submitted on a tape by P. Horsburgh, Hydro Department, Birkenhead, UK. The data have been converted and are now available on line in C116 (XBT) file format of NODC. The data type C116 contains temperature-depth profile data obtained using expendable bathythermograph (XBT) instruments. Cruise information, position, date and time were reported for each observation. The data record was comprised of pairs of temperature-depth values. The XBT data files contained temperature values at non-uniform depths. These depths were recorded at the minimum number of points ("inflection points") required to accurately define the temperature curve. Standard XBTs can obtain profiles to depths of either 450 or 760 m. With special instruments, measurements can be obtained to 1830 m.

Temperature profile data were collected using CTD casts in the South Atlantic Ocean from JAMES CLARK ROSS. Data were collected from 15 November 1994 to 21 November 1994. Data were submitted by British Oceanographic Data Center; Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory with support from the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) project.

This dataset contains oceanographic data collected at a coastal station off Eden, New South Wales (lat. 37 deg. 04 min. S, long. 150 deg. 05 min. E) between December 1945 and December 1985. The stations were set up under the CSIRO coastal monitoring programme in the 1940s and were sampled approximately monthly for temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, phosphate and nitrate. Data from 1954 onwards are stored on-line as part of the CMR hydrology archive in Hobart. Additional copies of the data are deposited with the NODC data archive (World Data Centre-A) in the U.S.A., and details of relevant data files can be viewed via their website by requesting the file inventory for this coastal station which is NODC platform code "09F6". Station details, plus printed versions of the data from 1945, have been published in CSIRO's "Oceanographical Station List" series.

This dataset contains 49 sets of data collected as part of Shipboard Environmental data Acquisition System (SEAS) III program. The cruises were conducted using 31 different ships. The bathythermograph (XBT) data was collected between December 12, 1991 and February 25, 1993. The data was sent from the cruise ships to the National Ocean Service, Rockville, MD via telecommunication. This data is currently available in the C116 file format of NODC.

The water depth and temperature data was collected from multiple ships by the Australian Navy. The data was collected from 1978-1991. The originator's analog bathythermograph (XBT) data was submitted in a box along with eight cassette tapes by Mr. Ben J. Searle. The data has been converted and is now available on line in C116 file format of NODC.

This dataset contains 62 sets of data collected as part of Shipboard Environmental data Acquisition System (SEAS) III program. The cruises were conducted using 37 different ships. The bathythermograph (XBT) data was collected between November 11, 1991 and November 21, 1992. The data was sent from the cruise ships to the National Ocean Service, Rockville, MD via telecommunication. This data is currently available in the C116 file format of NODC.

This dataset contains 14 sets of data collected as part of Shipboard Environmental data Acquisition System (SEAS) III program. The cruises were conducted using 10 different ships. The bathythermograph (XBT) data was collected between September 1, 1987 and April 10, 1992. The data was sent from the cruise ships to the National Ocean Service, Rockville, MD via telecommunication. This data is currently available in the C116 file format of NODC.

This dataset contains 89 sets of data collected as part of Shipboard Environmental data Acquisition System (SEAS) III program. The cruises were conducted using 24 different ships. The bathythermograph (XBT) data was collected between September 3, 1987 and June 11, 1992. The data was sent from the cruise ships to the National Ocean Service, Rockville, MD via telecommunication. This data is currently available in the C116 file format of NODC.