The accession contains Ocean Station; Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD); Bathythermograph (XBT); Aerial XBT (AXBT); and Current data. The data was collected in Sea of Japan from 452 stations. Data was collected by Japanese Hydrographic Office, Republic of Korea (south Korea), and Peoples Republic of China. The data was submitted to NODC by Japan in five files. The data was collected between June 7, 1989 and June 10, 1993 using multiple ships from multiple countries.

The data in this accession were collected in NE Pacific (limit-180) from ship ROYALTY I between May 3, 1994 and May 22, 1994. 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. Fifteen stripcharts and radio logs were submitted to NODC.

As a French contribution to the international TOGA-COARE (Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere - Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment) programme, the COARE-POI cruise, on board the R/V Le Noroit, was carried out by the ORSTOM-SURTROPAC group in Noumea, New Caledonia, together with participation of U.K. and other scientists.

Bottle data set collected on the R/V Rapuhia, a New Zealand ship which is run by New Zealand Oceanography Institute (NZOI). Data were collected from 21 February 1991 to 11 March 1991 as part of WHOI's moored current meter array experiment.

Current meter data were collected using moored current meter casts and other instruments in the Northwest and Southwest Pacific Ocean from October 1, 1992 to March 15, 1993. Data were submitted by First Institute of Oceanography as part of the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (COARE). Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard Current Meter Data (F015) format.

The Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD); and bathythermograph (XBT) data were collected as part of Distribution/Abundance of Marine Mammals in Gulf of Mexico (GULFCET I) funded by grant no MMS 14-35-0001-30619. The data was collected over two year period spanning from April 15, 1992 to December 12, 1993. Data from 239 casts of CTD and 566 XBT drops was submitted via internet by Dr. Giulietta Fargion of Texas A&M University, Galveston, TX.

The Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD); and bathythermograph (XBT) data were collected as part of Distribution/Abundance of Marine Mammals in Gulf of Mexico (GULFCET I) funded by grant no MMS 14-35-0001-30619. The data was collected over two year period spanning from April 22, 1992 to June 21, 1994. Data from 345 casts of CTD and 244 XBT drops was submitted via internet by Dr. Giulietta Fargion of Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

The Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) and other data were collected as part of MOES and Natal bight project in Prince Edward Islands. Data was collected from Ship SA Agulhas cruise MOESII and ship MEIRING NAUDE. The data was collected over a period spanning from April 7, 1989 to July 22, 1989 by Chief Scientific Officer B. Allanson. Data was submitted via internet by Marten L. Grundlingh of South African Data Center. Data has been processed and is available in F022-CTD-Hi Resolution file format of NODC.

This data collection contains inorganic nutrient chemistry, sulfide and oxygen data collected during cruises 2 through 5 of the 1988 Black Sea Oceanographic Expedition aboard the R/V Knorr. Continuous nutrient and sulfide data were obtained in the upper 375 m using a pumped profiling system. Discrete samples were collected from rosette-CTD casts. The corresponding physical oceanographic data have been presented by White et al. (1989).

Temperature profile and other data were collected using bottle casts in the South Pacific Ocean by MONOWAI. Data were collected from 16 November 1992 to 03 December 1992 by Texas A & M University and New Zealand Oceanographic Institute.