Shipboard Ocean Temperature Data from 1983 to 1992

XBT (bathythermograph) data collected from multiple ships between January 1, 1983 and December 31, 1992. The data was transmitted to the Atlantic Oceanographic Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) in Miami, FL, and later transferred to the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). The original submission and processed groupings are included in the accession.

Use Cases

• Modeling historical ocean temperature trends based on the 10-year time series.
• Analyzing vertical temperature profiles based on bathythermograph (XBT) data.
• Studying data transmission and archival practices for historical shipboard observations.

Strengths

• Data covers a 10-year period from 1983 to 1992.
• Includes both the original submission and processed groupings for analysis.

Limitations

• The description notes that in many cases the data are poorly documented and unprocessable.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 1992-12-31 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Collected via Shipboard Environmental data Acquisition System (SEAS) II program and transmitted via telecommunication.

Time Range

1983-01-01 to 1992-12-31

Freshness

1992-12-31 00:00:00

Geography

Likely the Atlantic Ocean, based on the receiving laboratory (AOML).