HUAYAIPE Ship MBT Temperature-Depth Profiles 1964-1968

Mechanical Bathythermograph (MBT) data from the vessel HUAYAIPE provides temperature-depth profiles for the upper ocean layers. The dataset covers a four-year period from 1964 to 1968 across the North and South Pacific Ocean. It was processed by the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) into the standard C128 format.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the thermal structure of the upper ocean (using temperature-depth value pairs).
• Studying historical temperature variations in the Pacific Ocean (using cruise date and position data).
• Validating ocean model outputs for the 1960s (using standardized temperature profiles at 5-meter intervals).
• Investigating cruise-specific oceanographic conditions (using reported cruise information, time, and location).

Strengths

• Data is standardized to the NODC C128 format, ensuring consistent structure.
• Covers a multi-year time range from 1964-02-29 to 1968-02-18.
• Provides detailed per-observation metadata including cruise, date, position, and time.

Limitations

• Row count, column names, and dataset size are unknown from all sources.
• MBT instrument maximum depth is only ~285 meters, limiting analysis to the upper ocean layers.
• Sources conflict on the last updated date: one platform reports 2026-03-05, another reports 1968-02-18.

Provenance

Source

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)

Collection Method

Processed by NODC from Mechanical Bathythermograph (MBT) instrument readings.

Time Range

1964-02-29 to 1968-02-18

Freshness

2026-03-05 23:07:28.893921

Geography

North Pacific Ocean and South Pacific Ocean