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Journal for accession number: 0000857
Created on:                    Thu  9 Jan 2003 07:26:53 -0500
By:                            Robert Gelfeld,SSMC3 4230,7133295 179

Source: JAMSTEC website. Data are are all in ASCII format. Data were submitted by the Japan Agency 
for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC). 

Actions: Placed original files in 0-data and extracted tar.gz into corresponding 1-data subdirectories.

Format: 0-data directory includes description of the data format.

Data available in the World Ocean Database

Temperature, salinity and other measurements found in datasets XBT and CTD taken from the MIRAI 
(R/V; call sign JNSR; built 1972 as Mutsu; renamed on 02/02/1996)in the North Pacific, Coastal 
N Pacific and other locations in 1999 (NODC Accession 0000857)

Accession| 0000857
Date Received (month/day/year)| 7/27/2005
Start date (month/day/year)| 2/15/1999
End date (month/day/year)| 12/10/1999
Submitting Institute| JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE-EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (JAMSTEC)
Contains observation type(s)| physical,chemical
Contains datatype(s)| 640 temperature profiles
                        477 salinity profiles
                        202 oxygen profiles
                        320 conductivity profiles

Includes Sea Area(s)| North Pacific
                      Coastal N Pacific
                      Equatorial Pacific
                      Arctic
West Boundary|  135.00
East Boundary| -145.81
North Boundary|   74.52
South Boundary|   -5.08
Contains Instrument Type(s)| XBT (163 casts)
                             CTD (334 casts)
                             XCTD (143 casts)
Institute(s)| JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE-EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (JAMSTEC)
Platform(s)| MIRAI (R/V; call sign JNSR; built 1972 as Mutsu; renamed on 02/02/1996)