*Data file(s): av09nbt.prn, av09chem, av09ctd.

*Format: station data file format of the NATO TU-BS project.

*Ship (station) name:  R/V Academician Vernadsky (MHI, Ukraine).

*Expedition: Cruise number 9, October 1974 - November 1974.

*Parameters: temperature and salinity, dissolved oxygen(ml/l), 
inorganic phosphates, pH.

*Instruments and methods: temperature and salinity were obtained with 
Nansen Bottles and reversing thermometers, dissolved oxygen was 
determined by the Winkler's method, method of Denige and Atkins was used
to determine inorganic phosphates 

*Accuracy:  

*Processing (if applied):

*Principal investigator(s): temperature and salinity - O.M. Belyakova,
chemical parameters - A.Z. Hlystov (MHI, Ukraine).

*Digitization: single entry at the MHI (Sevastopol, Ukraine).

*Remarks: see the complete descriptions of methods, accuracy and formats in 
the supplied file MHI_data.txt.

*Completed by: L. Galkovskaya, (MHI, Ukraine).

*Date: 18.08.2000.

*Source of data: MHI, Ukraine


