
NODC DOCUMENTATION FOR CTD DATASETS

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#submission_medium:  ftp tar file 
#submittor_name:  Robert O'Malley
#submittor_institution: College of Oceanic and Atmosperic Sciences,
			Oregon State University
#submitter_street_address: 104 Ocean Admin Bldg
#submitter_city: Corvallis 
#submitter_state: Oregon
#submitter_country: USA
#submitter_zip_code:  97331-5503
#sumitter_telephone_no: 541-737-2180
#submitter_internet: omalley@oce.orst.edu
#submitter_email:
#collection_information (i.e cruise dates, ports, cast numbers, 
 time of cast, longitude and latitude of casts):
	Wecoma cruise W9605A
 	10 May to 15 May, 1996
	Newport to Newport, Oregon
	conventional CTD casts made to provide data along  
	standard hydrographic lines off Five Mile Point, Oregon (FM)
	and Newport, Oregon  (NH)

	conventional CTD casts made at following times and locations:

Cruise W9605A

Sta.No.    Date     Time(UT)  Latitude     Longitude
                                 N           W  
  1       10 May     2039     44 38.9      124 10.5
  2       10 May     2210     44 39.0      124 24.9
  3       10 May     2340     44 39.1      124 38.9
  4       11 May     0117     44 39.1      124 52.7
  5       11 May     1540     43 13.0      124 26.0
  6       11 May     1629     43 13.0      124 30.0
  7       11 May     1720     43 13.0      124 35.0
  8       11 May     1815     43 12.9      124 40.0
  9       11 May     1917     43 13.0      124 45.0
 10       11 May     2024     43 13.0      124 50.0
 11       11 May     2245     43 13.0      125 00.0
 12       12 May     0013     43 13.0      125 10.0

#principal_investigator_name: John A. Barth
#pi_institution:  College of Oceanic and Atmosperic Sciences, 
	        	Oregon State University 
#pi_street-address:  104 Ocean Admin Bldg
#pi_city: Corvallis
#pi_state: Oregon
#pi_country: USA
#pi_zip_code: 97331-5503
#pi_telephone_no: 541-737-1607
#pi_internet: barth@oce.orst.edu
#pi_email:
#project: Coastal Jet Separation (CJS) and Coastal Mixing and Optics (CMO) 
          experiments
#funding agency: NSF (for CJS) and ONR (for CMO)
#grant/contract-no: NSF Grant OCE-9314370 and ONR Grant N00014-95-1-0382
#platform_type: research vessel
#platform_name: Wecoma
#collection_methods:  
 (i.e. how were the data obtained) 
 SeaBird 9/11 plus CTD in General Oceanics 
	 rosette, with 2 salinity samples per cast (usually);
	 salinity samples analyzed in OSU lab with  Guildline Autosal;
	 data acquired with SBE SeaSoft 4.207, using MRK files to match 
	 CTD and sample data
#analysis_methods:
 (i.e. how were the data processed, calibrated etc)
  -	in situ conductivity calibration determined from comparison 
	of CTD values from *.mrk files with sample conductivity
	(calculated from samples salinity and CTD temperature); 
	found no correction for CTD conductivity to be required
  - correction incorporated in Seasoft Configuration file;
	data processed using Seasoft modules DATCNV, ALIGNCTD, CELLTM  
	(with alpha = 0.03 and beta = 9 sec), LOOPEDIT (with minimum 
	velocity = 0.0), and BINAVG (averaging to 1 dbar values).
  - the 1-dbar average T,C data were transferred to Sun 
	workstation where we used standard algorithms (Fofonoff and 
	Millard, 1983) to calculate salinity, potential temperature, 
	density anomaly (sigma-theta), specific volume anonomaly, and 
	geopotential anomaly. 
#instruments: SBE 9/11 plus CTD SN 0256 with
	temperature sensor SN 1367 (calibrated at SBE 20 March 96),
	conductivity sensor SN 1030 (calibrated at SBE 29 March 96). 
#publications: 
#associated_datasets: SeaSoar data from W9605A; 
#associated_versions:		     *
#data_set_information:               *
#data_set_name:			     * 
#data_set_volume: 155 kbytes
#source_computer:  Sun sparc 10
#source_computer_operating_system: Sun OS 4.1.3
#source_language: Fortran
#computer_code: ASCII
#originator_dataset_identifier: W9605A
#data_dates:  10 May - 12 May 1996
#left_geographic_upper_bound:        126W  45N
#right_geographic_lower_bound:	     124W  43N
#geographic_region: 		     
 Northeast Pacifc
#data_type:     CTD data 
#sphere:                             * 
#parameters: pressure (dbars), temperature (C), salinity (psu),
	potential temperature (C), Sigma-theta (kg/cubic meter),
	specific volume anomaly (cl/ton), geopotential anomaly or
	dynamic height (J/kg)
#format_description:
 (e.g. description of the header, data, record layouts. Include
 units, scales, resolution, accuracy)
  Files contain 13 lines of header with a format of variable
   length character strings: ('h ',a), followed by the data
   with a format of (f7.1,4f8.3,f7.1,f8.3). The header
   contains: file name, latitude, longitude, time, bottom depth,
   station number, station name (may be blank),
   2 comment lines, and the data column labels. The data includes:

   pressure (dbars), accurate to better than plus/minus 1 db
   temperature (C), accurate to plus/minus 0.01 C
   salinity (psu), accurate to plus/minus 0.004 psu
   potential temperature (C), 
   Sigma-theta (kg/cubic meter),
   specific volume anomaly (cl/ton),
   geopotential anomaly or dynamic height (J/kg) 

#format_publication: 
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#format_comments: 
 (any information about the format that will be useful, but is not
 elsewhere on this form)
#misc_documentation:                *
#submittor_documentation: 
 any textual information about the data, provided by the submitter,
 or investigator, (not NODC folks)  For example, in most cases this
 has been an ASCII text file accompanying the data on a DAT , diskette,
 or CDROM.  It may contain information which is redundant with other
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