Profiles of temperature, salinity, and other measurements from CTD, XBT, and bottle samplers received from the Japan Oceanographic Data Center (NCEI Accession 0054093)

Profiles of temperature, salinity, and other measurements received from the Japan Oceanographic Data Center, Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department as a submission to the WDC Silver Spring (IODE). The oceanographic data observed by research institutes in Japan as a part of the lODE activity promoted by IOC/UNESCO. An enclosed CD-ROM (transfer media only) contains following data. The data are sorted into specific folders by each institution. The institutes are:

1. National Institute for Environmental Studies STD, Serial Station (1995-2003)
2. Fisheries Experimental Station, the Government-General of Korea
(before the World War II) Serial Station (1935-36,1940)
3. National Fisheries University XBT, CTD (2003-2006)
4. Tohoku University XBT, XCTD (2008)
5. Mie Prefecture Fisheries High School CTO (2006-2008)
6. JAMSTEC (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology) OTO (2004)

Please note that we corrected some data which JODC had sent to NODC before. The corrected data is stored in a folder named as ' updates". For the details, please refer to readme.txt in the folder (updates CTD, OSD, XBT, readme.txt)