WATER TEMPERATURE and other data from TRUXTUN in the NE Pacific on 1992-04-03 (NODC Accession 9200093)

The data in this accession were collected in NE Pacific (limit-180) from ship TRUXTUN on April 3, 1992. The real time data of water temperature at varying depth bathythermograph (XBT) was recorded in stripcharts by the US 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. One stripchart and radio log was submitted to NODC. The XBT data from these stripcharts have been digitized and are present in the current NODC data storage system in C116 file format.