
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):
	Endeavor cruise EN-287 (referred to here as E9608)
	14 August to 01 September, 1996
	Narragansett to Narragansett, Rhode Island
	conventional CTD casts made to provide observations
	between SeaSoar tows.

	conventional CTD casts made at following times and locations:

Cruise E9608

Sta.No.    Date      Time     Latitude     Longitude
          (1996)     (UT)         N            W  
  1       14 Aug     1937     40 54.0'     70 30.0'
  2       15 Aug     0327     39 54.0'     70 30.3'
  3       15 Aug     0509     39 59.0'     70 30.0'
  4       15 Aug     0628     40 04.0'     70 30.0'
  5       15 Aug     0732     40 09.0'     70 30.0'
  6       15 Aug     0850     40 14.0'     70 30.2'
  7       15 Aug     0949     40 19.2'     70 30.1'
  8       22 Aug     0513     40 17.9'     70 21.4'
  9       22 Aug     0524     40 17.9'     70 21.4'
 10       22 Aug     0530     40 17.9'     70 21.4'
 11       22 Aug     0538     40 17.9'     70 21.4'
 12       22 Aug     0545     40 18.0'     70 21.6'
 13       22 Aug     0553     40 18.0'     70 21.6'
 14       22 Aug     0559     40 18.1'     70 21.7'
 15       22 Aug     0606     40 18.1'     70 21.7'
 16       22 Aug     0614     40 18.3'     70 21.8'
 17       22 Aug     0622     40 18.3'     70 21.8'
 18       22 Aug     0628     40 18.4'     70 21.8'
 19       22 Aug     0635     40 18.4'     70 21.8'
 20       22 Aug     0641     40 18.4'     70 21.8'
 21       22 Aug     0649     40 18.5'     70 21.7'
 22       22 Aug     0655     40 18.5'     70 21.7'
 23       22 Aug     2256     40 25.0'     70 21.0'
 24       22 Aug     2348     40 19.9'     70 20.9'
 25       23 Aug     0043     40 15.0'     70 20.8'
 26       23 Aug     0152     40 10.1'     70 20.8'
 27       23 Aug     0255     40 04.9'     70 21.0'
 28       23 Aug     0405     39 59.8'     70 21.0'
 29       23 Aug     0522     39 54.7'     70 20.9'
 30       23 Aug     0744     40 00.2'     70 12.1'
 31       23 Aug     0847     40 02.6'     70 12.0'
 32       23 Aug     0937     40 05.0'     70 12.1'
 33       23 Aug     1023     40 07.6'     70 12.1'
 34       23 Aug     1103     40 10.1'     70 12.0'
 35       23 Aug     1140     40 12.5'     70 12.0'
 36       23 Aug     1226     40 15.0'     70 12.0'
 37       23 Aug     1322     40 20.0'     70 12.0'
 38       23 Aug     1450     40 30.0'     70 12.0'
 39       23 Aug     1545     40 36.0'     70 11.9'
 40       23 Aug     1632     40 39.9'     70 11.7'
 41       23 Aug     1725     40 40.0'     70 03.4'
 42       23 Aug     1811     40 36.0'     70 03.5'
 43       23 Aug     1904     40 30.0'     70 03.5'
 44       23 Aug     2020     40 20.0'     70 03.5'
 45       23 Aug     2157     40 15.0'     70 03.5'
 46       23 Aug     2235     40 12.4'     70 03.5'

#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: 
#pi_email:  barth@oce.orst.edu
#project: Coastal Mixing and Optics Experiment
#funding agency: ONR
#grant/contract-no: ONR Grant N00014-95-1-0382
#platform_type: research vessel
#platform_name: Endeavor
#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 at sea with a Guildline Autosal;
	 data acquired with SBE SeaSoft 4.219, 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 (if present) incorporated in Seasoft Configuration file;
	data processed using Seasoft modules DATCNV, ALIGNCTD, CELLTM  
	(with alpha = 0.03 and 1/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  with
	pressure sensor SN 63505 (calibrated at SBE 01 January 96),
	temperature sensor SN 2034 (calibrated at SBE 06 July 96),
	conductivity sensor SN 1745 (calibrated at SBE 23 July 96). 
#publications: "SeaSoar CTD Observation During the Coastal Mixing and Optics
	Experiment:  R/V Endeavor Cruises from 14-Aug to 1-Sep 1996 and
	25 Apr to 15-May 1997" by R. O'Malley et al., Data Report 168, 
	Reference 98-1, October 1998
#associated_datasets: SeaSoar data from E9608; 
#associated_versions:		     *
#data_set_information:               *
#data_set_name:			     * 
#data_set_volume: 506 kbytes
#source_computer:  Sun sparc 10
#source_computer_operating_system: Sun OS 4.1.3
#source_language: Fortran
#computer_code: ASCII
#originator_dataset_identifier: E9608
#data_dates:  14 August - 23 August 1996
#left_geographic_upper_bound:        71W  41N
#right_geographic_lower_bound:	     70W  39N
#geographic_region: 		     
 Northwest Atlantic
#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 (J/kg), 
	fluorescence (v), light transmission (v)
#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,f8.3,2f7.3). 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 (J/kg)
   fluorescence (0-5 v),
   light transmission (0-5 v) 

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#format_comments: 
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#submittor_documentation: 
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 has been an ASCII text file accompanying the data on a DAT , diskette,
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