Salinity and temperature profile data were collected using XBT, CTD and XCTD casts from R/V MIRAI in the North/South Pacific Ocean and other Sea areas from 14 February 2001 to 18 December 2001. Data were submitted by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC).

Nutrients and temperature profile data were collected using XBT and CTD casts from R/V MIRAI in the North/South Pacific Ocean and other Sea areas from 06 January 2000 to 08 February 2001. Data were submitted by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC).

Salinity and temperature profile data were collected using XCTD and CTD casts from R/V MIRAI in the North/South Pacific Ocean from 07 January 2002 to 30 March 2003. Data were submitted by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC).

Temperature profile, nutrients, and other data were collected using XCTD and CTD casts from KOFU MARU and other platforms in the North Pacific Ocean from 01 January 2002 to 31 December 2002. Data were collected and submitted by Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).

This dataset contains temperature, salinity and other types of data collected using bottle casts, CTD, GEK (Geomagnetic Electrokinetography), XBT, DBT and MBT in the northwest Pacific Ocean. Data were provided by the Japan Oceanographic Data Center. Data formats for original data files (as presented in version 1.1/data/0-data/) are available upon request from NCEI. Data has been processed by NODC to the NODC standard Bathythermograph XBT Selected Depths (SBT) (C125) and Ocean Station (C100) formats. The Oceanographic Station Data (C100) 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 UBT (C125) 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 records are comprised of pairs of temperature-depth values. Depths are selected by the originator - usually at standard horizons or some fixed interval. Standard XBTs can obtain profiles to depths of either 450 or 760 m. Special instruments permitted measurements to be obtained to 1830 m.

CTD, MBT, bottle, and other data were collected from the HATSUTAKA MARU and other platforms from the Sea of Japan, NW Pacific (limit-180), and other seas from 10 April 1919 to 28 December 1993. Data include temperature and salinity profiles. Data also include concentration profiles of oxygen, heavy metals, PCB's, chlorophyll, and phaeophytin.

Hydrographic and subsurface temperature data were collected from bottle and CTD casts from MULTIPLE PLATFORMS from the Sea of Japan and other locations from 19 January 1993 to 18 November 1994. Hydrographic parameters include temperature, salinity, nitrate, nitrite, oxygen, and pH.