*Data file(s): PV21ctd.prn.

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

*Ship (station) name:  R/V Professor Vodyanitsky (IBSS, Ukraine).

*Expedition: cruise number 21, October 1986 - November 1986.

*Parameters: Depth in meters,  Temperature in Celcium degrees, Sa-
linity in  practical salinity units (PSU).

*Instruments and  methods: CTD-sounding system used (ISTOK-5; MGI,
Ukraine).

*Accuracy: Pressure ( dBar):  sensibility= 0.5, error=0.25%  at
confidential probability a=0.95;  Temperature (Deg.C):  sensibili-
ty=0.01, static  error=+-0.03   at   confidential   probability
a=0.95, temperature  sensor  inertia  =  0.4 - 1.0 sec.;  Salinity
(UPS): sensitivity=0.018, static error no more 0.04 at confidenti-
al probability 0.95.


*Processing (if applied):

*Principal investigator(s):  (IBSS, Ukraine).

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

*Remarks:

*Completed by: T. Melnik, V.Nikolsky, G. Piontkovskaya, E. Popova (IBSS,Ukraine).

*Date:31.03.2001.

*Source of data: IBSS, Ukraine


