This collection contains temperature, depth, and other data collected using mechanical bathythermograph (MBT) casts from numerous platforms in oceans and seas around the world from 1941-06-04 to 1988-02-16. Data were processed by NODC to the NODC Mechanical Bathythermograph (MBT/C128) format.

This dataset contains physical-chemical oceanographic data recorded at discrete depth levels, in NODC Standard Oceanographic Station Data (SD2 or C100) format. 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.

The Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) and other data were collected in NW Atlantic (limit-40 W). Data was collected from NOAA Ship WHITING. The data was collected over a period spanning from May 20, 1994 and June 23, 1994. Data from 9 casts containing 270 records in WHOI/NODC Exchange format was submitted in one diskette by National Ocean Service, Rockville, MD. Data has been processed and is available in F022-CTD-Hi Resolution file format of NODC.

Current meter components and other data were collected from subsurface moorings from the TOGA Area - Pacific (30 N to 30 S). Data was collected by Edward K. Noda and Associates. Parameters include u velocity, v velocity, and pressure.

The Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) and Bathythermograph (XBT) data were collected in Gulf of Mexico as part of Texas Institutions Gulf Ecosystem Research (TIGER) project funded by grant no MMS # 14-35-0001-30501. Data was collected from Ship GYRE cruise 94G05. The data was collected over a period spanning from July 18, 1994 and July 20, 1994. Data was submitted in two diskettes by Dr. Douglas C. Biggs, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX via Eddie Webb.

The water depth and temperature data was collected from multiple ships by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office. The originator's analog bathythermograph (XBT) data was submitted in a diskette containing 3 files in NODEF-1 format. The data has been converted by NODC and is now available on line. See accompanying documentation for file format information.

Temperature and salinity profiles were collected from CTD casts in the North Pacific Ocean from the THOMAS G. THOMPSON and the THOMAS WASHINGTON. Data were collected by Scripps Institute of Oceanography (SIO) in support of the Marathon 2 Project from 05 May 1985 to 07 September 1987. Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard F022 High-Resolution CTD/STD Output Format.

These data constitute Release 3.0 of the Marine Pigments, Productivity, and Associated Chemistry Data Dictionary, developed by Dr. William Balch and Mr. Charles Byrne of Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, FL. The data format is designed for archiving phytoplankton pigment and productivity data in association with the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS). This version supersedes previous releases of these data. Data were collected during multiple studies world-wide.

Sixty-two (62) data files and one doc file from Dr. Alan Longhurst, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. These contain chlorophyll data from North Atlantic received from NODC's Ocean Climate Laboratory via File Transfer Protocol. Data were collected during multiple cruises associated with various projects including JGOFS/NABE, CUEA, FOCAL, and ICES from 1961-1990. The format is contained in a .DOC file; parameters are: cruise, station, position, date, depth in meters, and chlorophyll-a in mg/cubic meter.

These data compromise the Kiel Atlas containing 2 files; indian1.dat, 2/3/60- 6/18/66 and indian2.dat, 7/20/60-12/5/69 of primary productivity data from the University of South Florida as received by NODC's Ocean Climate Laboratory. The data format is contained in the data documentation file; data parameters include: Ship, cruise, station, position, date, time, depth, transparency in meters, radiation in g cal/cubic cm.