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    "title": "Temperature profile data collected using XBTs from the OCEANUS from the Atlantic Ocean during the International Decade of Ocean Exploration \/ combination of USSR POLYGON project and US MODE (IDOE\/POLYMODE) project, 1978-11-29 to 1979-12-10 (NCEI Accession 8000254)",
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        "water depth",
        "WATER TEMPERATURE",
        "bathythermograph - BT",
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        "Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution",
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        "INTERNATIONAL DECADE OF OCEAN EXPLORATION \/ combination of USSR POLYGON project and US MODE (IDOE\/POLYMODE)",
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        "DOC\/NOAA\/NESDIS\/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce",
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        "EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY\/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > WATER DEPTH",
        "EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE",
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        "OCEANUS (call sign: WXAQ, ICES code: 32OC, 1976-)",
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