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Plankton, temperature and other measurements found in dataset OSD taken from the VITYAZ (Built 1938;active as Vityaz 1948-81) , NATAL and other platforms in the South Indian , Equatorial Indian and other locations from 1960 to 1965 (NODC Accession 9400059)

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Data distribution plot for NCEI accession 9400059
Accession: 9400059
Date Received (month/day/year): 5/8/1997
Start date (month/day/year): 2/17/1960
End date (month/day/year): 5/11/1965
Submitting Institute: US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER (NODC)
Contains observation type(s): physical,chemical,biology,meterology
Contains datatype(s): 1905 plankton profiles
- 299 temperature profiles
- 296 salinity profiles
- 292 oxygen profiles
- 246 phosphate profiles
- 164 silicate profiles
- 139 nitrate profiles
- 52 chlorophyll profiles
- 6 pH profiles
- 1902 Bottom_Depth measurements
- 9 Water_Transpar measurements
- 24 Wave_Direction measurements
- 3 Wave_Height measurements
- 86 Sea_State measurements
- 161 Wind_Force measurements
- 2 Wave_Period measurements
- 245 Wind_Direction measurements
- 84 Wind_Speed measurements
- 90 Barometric_Pres measurements
- 96 Dry_Bulb_Temp measurements
- 93 Wet_Bulb_Temp measurements
- 63 Weather_Condit measurements
- 68 Cloud_Type measurements
- 80 Cloud_Cover measurements
Includes Sea Area(s): South Indian
- Equatorial Indian
- Coastal S Indian
- Coastal S Atlantic
- Coastal Equatorial Indian
- Equatorial Pacific
- North Indian
- Red Sea
- Coastal N Indian
- Coastal Equatorial Pacific
- Antarctic
West Boundary: 19.98
East Boundary: 120.03
North Boundary: 24.82
South Boundary: -51.00
Contains Instrument Type(s): bottle/rossette/net (1905 casts)
Project(s): IIOE
Institute(s): NATIONAL INST OF OCEANOGRAPHY (GOA; INDIA)
Platform(s): VITYAZ (Built 1938;active as Vityaz 1948-81)
- NATAL
- ARGO
- DIAMANTINA (K377/A266:built 1944;decomm-d 02.1980)
- GASCOYNE (HMAS;K354/F354/A276;call sign VKMS;built 1943;decomm-d 02.1966)
- KISTNA
- KOYO MARU (Call sign JHAB;built 09.1958;renamed BOSEI MARU NO.2 1978;IMO5195862)
- UMITAKA MARU
- OSHORO MARU (F/V; call sign JDVA;built 01.1984; IMO8401365)
- ANTON BRUUN
- VARUNA
- DISCOVERY (R/V; call sign GLNE; built 12.1962; IMO5090660)
- CONCH
- KAGOSHIMA MARU
- PIONEER (USC&GS)
- ZULFIQUAR
- METEOR (R/V;built 1964;decomm-d 1985;ren-d Rapuhia)
- PATANELA