Global Drifter Program (GDP) Data Assembly Center (DAC) GTS XBT Data
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/82.171

Summary
This dataset contains GTS XBT data from the Global Drifter Program (GDP) Data
Assembly Center (DAC) from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA) Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML). For more
information see the NOAA/AOML web page at
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dac/dacdata.html.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 82.171
 * doi:10.26023/7HW5-VCER-RS0V
   https://doi.org/10.26023/7HW5-VCER-RS0V

Versions
  1.0

Citation
 Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), NOAA, Lumpkin,
 R. 2006. NAME: Global Drifter Program (GDP) Data Assembly Center (DAC) GTS
 XBT Data. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory.
 https://doi.org/10.26023/7HW5-VCER-RS0V Accessed 25 Apr 2024.

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Acknowledgement
In addition to the citation reference and any other acknowledgements,
please acknowledge NCAR/EOL in your publications with text such as:

  Data provided by NCAR/EOL under the sponsorship of
  the National Science Foundation.
  https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

Related projects
 * NAME: North American Monsoon Experiment
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/NAME

Additional information
 * Spatial Type: point
 * Frequency: no set schedule
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Oceanography

Platforms
 * Buoys

Instruments
 * Drifting Buoys
 * Expendable Bathythermographs - XBT

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE

Related links
 * info: NAME Data Policy
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/content/name-data-policy
 * info: http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dac/dacdata.html
 * homepage: EOL NAME website
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/name
 * info: NAME Missions
   http://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/name/catalog/missions.html

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2004-06-01 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2004-09-30 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 50.00
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 5.00
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -125.00
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -75.00

Primary contact information
 * pointOfContact: Rick Lumpkin <Rick.Lumpkin@noaa.gov>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/648

Additional contact information
 * author: Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), NOAA
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/524
 * originator: Rick Lumpkin <Rick.Lumpkin@noaa.gov>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/648

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/82.171?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/82.171?format=isotc211