Data from 17 January 1978 to 04 June 1988 collected by the Maritime Safety Agency and other institutions in the Philippine Sea. The dataset contains physical-chemical oceanographic measurements from bottle casts and temperature-depth profiles from expendable bathythermographs (XBTs). It was processed by the National Oceanographic Data Center into standard formats.
Use Cases
- Analyze historical temperature-depth profiles based on XBT data.
- Study water column properties like salinity and dissolved oxygen based on discrete bottle cast measurements.
- Model oceanographic conditions in the Philippine Sea based on station data.
- Investigate potential relationships between meteorological conditions and ocean parameters based on reported auxiliary data.
Strengths
- Data spans over ten years from 1978 to 1988.
- Includes measurements from multiple platforms and institutions.
- Data was processed to standard NODC formats (SD2, UBT, SBT, C100).
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- A portion of the data (GEK current measurements) was described but could not be located digitally.
Provenance
- Source
- Maritime Safety Agency; Hydrographic Division (MSA) and other institutions.
- Collection Method
- Collected from bottle and XBT casts on ships like PUSAN-852.
- Time Range
- 1978-01-17 to 1988-06-04
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03-05 23:38:54.354767; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Philippine Sea