WATER TEMPERATURE and other data from MERRILL in the NE Pacific from 1992-05-02 to 1992-05-31 (NODC Accession 9200136)

The data in this accession were collected in NE Pacific (limit-180) from ship MERRILL between May 2, 1992 to May 31, 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. Twenty six stripcharts and radio logs were 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.

本存档数据集采集于东北太平洋（经度边界为-180°），采集船为MERRILL号，采集时段为1992年5月2日至1992年5月31日。美国海军通过条带式记录图记录了利用抛弃式深水测温仪（Expendable Bathythermograph, XBT）获取的实时分层水温数据。无线电日志为包含时间、气象参数、经纬度、船舶编号、船只标识等信息的记录表，此类日志每两小时通过无线电报送至某军事中心，每张条带记录图对应一行记录。部分条带记录图上标注有时间、日期、船舶标识及经纬度信息。本次共向国家海洋数据中心（National Oceanographic Data Center, NODC）提交了26张条带记录图及无线电日志。源自上述条带记录图的XBT数据已完成数字化处理，目前以C116文件格式存储于NODC现有数据存储系统中。