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Temperature, salinity and other measurements found in datasets OSD, CTD and XBT taken from the QUEEN, RSA and other platforms in the Coastal S Indian , South Indian and other locations from 1962 to 2001 (NODC Accession 0001407)

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The original data can be accessed via: NCEI Ocean Archive System

Data distribution plot for NCEI accession 0001407
Accession: 0001407
Date Received (month/day/year): 5/20/2004
Start date (month/day/year): 10/1/1962
End date (month/day/year): 8/7/2001
Submitting Investigator: GRUNDLINGH; MARTEN
Submitting Institute: SOUTH AFRICAN DATA CENTRE FOR OCEANOGRAPHY
Contains observation type(s): physical,chemical,biology,meterology
Contains datatype(s): 6926 temperature profiles
- 3412 salinity profiles
- 1080 oxygen profiles
- 364 phosphate profiles
- 286 silicate profiles
- 362 nitrate profiles
- 153 chlorophyll profiles
- 1858 Wind_Direction measurements
- 2280 Wind_Speed measurements
- 1387 Barometric_Pres measurements
- 2356 Dry_Bulb_Temp measurements
- 1915 Wet_Bulb_Temp measurements
- 250 Weather_Condit measurements
- 19 Cloud_Cover measurements
- 1095 Surf_Salinity measurements
Includes Sea Area(s): Coastal S Indian
- South Indian
- South Atlantic
- Coastal S Atlantic
- Antarctic
West Boundary: -53.25
East Boundary: 65.37
North Boundary: -16.34
South Boundary: -70.20
Contains Instrument Type(s): XBT (1618 casts)
- CTD (4302 casts)
- bottle/rossette/net (1009 casts)
Institute(s): COUNCIL FOR SCIENTIFIC & INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH (CSIR) (PRETORIA; S.AFRICA)1
- SOUTH AFRICAN DATA CENTRE FOR OCEANOGRAPHY
- SEA FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE (SFRI) - CAPE TOWN
- UNIV. OF CAPE TOWN (RONDEBOSCH)
- UNIV. OF THE WITWATERSRAND
- RHODES UNIV. DEPT OF ICHTHYOLOGY (GRAHAMSTOWN)
Platform(s): QUEEN
- RSA
- FRAAY R/K
- MEIRING NAUDE (Yacht; call sign ZSAE; built 1968; IMO6802620)
- S.A. AGULHAS (R/V;call sign ZSAF;built 1977;flag South Africa;IMO7628136)
- AFRICANA I
- ALGOA (FRV;c.s.ZR4311;b.1975;ex.Ludovic Jego 11.1991;IMO7410369)
- MAURICE EWING (R/V; call sign WLDZ; service date 1988 - 2005)
- NANSEN
- PROTEA