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Temperature profile data from expendable bathythermograph (XBT) instruments deployed from US Navy ships of opportunity between April 25, 1973, and December 12, 1983. The data was processed by the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) into the standard C116/C118 format, containing temperature-depth pairs recorded at non-uniform inflection points. This dataset provides a historical record of ocean temperature structure from the surface to depths of up to 1830 meters.
Data format uses non-uniform depth recording at inflection points, unlike uniform 5-meter intervals used in MBT data files. The most recent update date is conflicting between sources, potentially indicating a metadata issue versus a data update.