The data were collected by Texas A&M University, College Station under a program sponsored by grant MMS # 14-35-0001-30501 to Dr. Douglas C. Biggs. The physical profile data were collected in Gulf of Mexico from Ship Gyre between November 11-18, 1989. Originator's data were submitted by Dr. David Murphy in tapes that have been processed by NODC. The data is available in F022-CTD Hi resolution, C116 Bathythermograph XBT and C100 Ocean-Station Data format.

This dataset contains the MOODS4 upgrade for the real-time radio bathythermograph message subset for data provided by Compass Systems, Inc. There are three files. File one is the corrected MOODS file which has been converted to NODC UBT format, file two contains Surface reports from MOODS4 and 1985-1986 annual message subsets. File three contains uncorrected subset of MOODS4 message observations. These data are in binary format.

Oxygen (average seabed consumption) data were collected using pressure gauge from the Drake Passage from February 8, 1976 to March 19, 1982. Data were submitted by Texas A&M University in part of the International Decade of Ocean Exploration / International Southern Ocean Studies / First Dynamic Response and Kinematics Experiment in the Drake Passage (IDOE/ISOS/FDRAKE) project.

This dataset contains ocean station and current data collected by Water & Sewerage Board in South Atlantic Ocean and submitted by Mr. K.H.J. Robin. The physical oceanographic data was collected offshore from Sydney, Australia from February 1972 to November 1977 by Metropolitan Environmental Science and Engineering. This study was designed to determine seasonal, wind and tidal effects on current patterns and density structure. In addition, the following parameters were measured: dissolved oxygen, hydrogen ion concentration, nutrient concentration, pH and water clarity.

This dataset contains two files of nutrient and chlorophyll data for Long Island Sound collected from 1952-59. The data were originally collected by G.A. Riley, Bingham Institute of Oceanography, Yale University and were acquired by NODC from Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The quality of the data is highly questionable (according to George Heimerdinger, NODC liaison officer / WHOI). Parameters include: location, depth, temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, phosphorus, nitrogen, nitrate and chlorophyll a.

The high resolution Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) data were collected by NOAA Ship WHITING from NW Atlantic (limit-40 W). The data was collected over a three month period spanning from August 19, 1989 to November 10, 1989 by National Ocean Service (NOS) Rockville, MD.

Data has been processed by NODC to the NODC standard High-Resolution CTD/STD (F022) format.

This dataset consists of nutrient data from Long Island Sound provided by Mr. Robert N. Reid from NOAA/NMFS Sandy Hook Laboratory. The data were collected from July 1972 to September 1973 as part of the Environmental Baselines in Long Island Sound project. These are copies of original log sheets which were obtained from Reid and key entered. There are no nutrient values collected for cruise 3 and the day portion of the date is missing for cruise 3. Parameters include: temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, nitrite, nitrate, ammonium, urea and orthophosphorus.

The water depth and temperature data was collected from cruise ship Oceanus. The data was collected from September 4-18, 1988. The originator's bathythermograph (XBT) data containing 229 observations was submitted by Mr. McDaniel Brice of University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

This dataset contains two files of salinity/temperature/oxygen data from Long Island Sound data submitted by J.C. Ayers from Cornell University and Davids Island data submitted from NOAA NMFS Sandy Hook Laboratory. There are two reference numbers which refer to each file: L00942 = Ayers data set, January to September 1952. L00943 = Davids Island, April to June 1971 - part of the Davids Island ecological survey of western Long Island Sound. The data have been formatted in F004 format and includes the following parameters: temperature, salinity and oxygen.

The Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) data with oxygen was collected off of Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea using Charles Darwin ship as part of Monsoon And Sea-Air Interaction (MASAI) project conducted between December 1986 and August 1987. The data was submitted by Dr. Donald B. Olson of Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS), University of Miami, FL. The originator's data has been processed by NODC and is available in C100 Ocean Station Data format and F022 hi resolution CTD data.