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.

The water depth and temperature data was collected as part of Global Temperature- Salinity Pilot Project (GTSPP) from ship TORRENS by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization and Australian Oceanographic Data Center, Potts point, New South Wales, Australia. The data was collected from June 19, 1991 to October 3, 1991. The originator's bathythermograph (XBT) data file was submitted by Mr. Andrew L. Walsh in GTSPP format via FTP.

The water depth and temperature data was collected from five ships by the Australian and New Zealand Navy. The data was collected between August 1, 1993 and March 29, 1995. The originator's 267 analog bathythermograph (XBT) traces were submitted by Mr. Andrew L. Walsh to NODC.

The data in this accession were collected from Australian and New Zealand ships HMAS HOBART, HMAS PERTH, HMNZS SOUTHLAND, HMNZS CANTERBURY, HMNZS WAIKATO, WELLINGTON, FLINDERS and NEWCASTLE between April 8, 1993 and May 10, 1994. The real time data of water temperature at varying depth bathythermograph (XBT) was recorded in stripcharts by the Australian 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. 486 analog stripcharts and radio logs were submitted to NODC by Ms. Edwina Tanner of Australian Oceanographic Data Center, New South Wales, Australia.

The water depth and temperature data was collected as part of Global Temperature- Salinity Pilot Project (GTSPP) using 4 different ships by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. The data was collected from July 10, 1990 to August 19, 1991. The originator's bathythermograph (XBT) data files were submitted by Ann Gronell in GTSPP format via FTP to Melanie Hamilton.

The water depth and temperature data was collected as part of Global Temperature- Salinity Pilot Project (GTSPP) from a dozen ships by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization and Australian Oceanographic Data Center, Potts point, New South Wales, Australia. The data was collected from January 3, 1993 to December 21, 1993. The originator's bathythermograph (XBT) data file was submitted by Mr. Andrew L. Walsh in GTSPP format RAN/RNZN via FTP. One XBT datafile in GTSPP format RAN/RNZN 1993 via FTP 8,906 DELAYED-MODE XBT'S IN GTSPP FORMAT YEAR 1986=ACC # 9500113 YEAR 1987=ACC # 9500114 YEAR 1988=ACC # 9500115 YEAR 1989=ACC # 9500116 YEAR 1990=ACC # 9500117 YEAR 1991=ACC # 9500118 YEAR 1992=ACC # 9500119 YEAR 1993=ACC # 9500120 YEAR 1994=ACC # 9500121 ACC 9500120 VESSEL=RAN/RNZN 2,715 OBS. INTERNET OPTICAL N0034A **** 8 OF 9 ******

The water depth and temperature data was collected as part of Global Temperature- Salinity Pilot Project (GTSPP) from over a dozen ships by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization and Australian Oceanographic Data Center, Potts point, New South Wales, Australia. The data was collected from January 24, 1994 to December 16, 1994. The originator's bathythermograph (XBT) data file was submitted by Mr. Andrew L. Walsh in GTSPP format RAN/RNZN via FTP.

The water depth and temperature data was collected as part of Global Temperature- Salinity Pilot Project (GTSPP) using 13 different ships by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. The data was collected for the year 1994. The originator's 2,715 drop profiles containing bathythermograph (XBT) data files were submitted by Ann Gronell in GTSPP format via FTP. This data has been replaced. Once on June 6, 1997 and again on July 2, 1997. The last time for hemisphere error.

The water depth and temperature data were collected in north and south Atlantic as part of World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) from four different ships between August 14, 1986 and December 4, 1986. The originator's bathythermograph (XBT) data tape containing profiles were submitted by Dr. Reiner Onken, University of Kiel, Germany. The data have been converted and are now available on line in C125 Bathythermograph-XBT-Selected Depths file format of NODC.

Data has been processed by NODC to the NODC standard Bathythermograph (XBT) (C116) format. The C116/C118 format 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. Unlike the MBT Data File, in which temperature values were recorded at uniform 5 m intervals, 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. Prior to July 1994, XBT data were routinely processed to one of these standard types. XBT data are now processed and loaded directly in to the NODC Ocean Profile Data Base (OPDB). Historic data from these two data types were loaded into the OPDB.