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2004-11-30 14:29:14 -0500: Journal for accession number: 0001919
Created on:                    2004-11-30 14:29:14 -0500
By:                            Carla Forgy, SSMC3 4306, 713-3295 x184

Source:  Temperature, salinity and oxygen profile data received at NODC on 11/30/04 by Ricardo Locarnini
as an email attachment sent by Lothar Stramma, Leibniz Institut fuer Meereswissenschaften, IFM-GEOMAR, 
University of Kiel, Germany.  The text of the email is in email from Lothar Stramma_to_Ricardo Locarnini
_m394.txt in the /about director. 


NODC/OCL GODAR digitization format (comma-separated-values)
These data were manually entered into a MS Excel spreadsheet by NODC personnel and /or contractors from the original source.  The MS Excel spreadsheet was subsequently saved as the .xls file and as a comma-delimited ascii text in the .csv file.

***Information about the data format can be found in the CSV_format_description.html in the /about directory.****


Oceanographic profile temperature, salinity  and other measurements collected using high resolution CTD from the VALDIVIA and METEOR (DBBH) (03/15/1986 TO PRESENT) (RESEARCH VESSEL) in the North Atlantic     and Coastal N Atlantic from 1996 to 1998 (NODC Accession 0001919)

Accession: 0001919
Date Received (month/day/year): 12/6/2004
Start date (month/day/year): 7/19/1996
End date (month/day/year): 8/8/1998
Submitting Institute: LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUR MEERESWISSENSCHAFTEN (KIEL, GERMANY)
Platform(s): VALDIVIA
             METEOR (DBBH) (03/15/1986 TO PRESENT) (RESEARCH VESSEL)
Contains observation type(s): physical,chemical
Contains datatype(s): 248 temperature profiles
                        248 salinity profiles
                        248 oxygen profiles

                      248 Bottom_Depth measurements
Includes Sea Area(s): North Atlantic
                      Coastal N Atlantic
West Boundary:  -56.62
East Boundary:  -30.30
North Boundary:   64.17
South Boundary:   45.00
Contains Instrument Type(s): high resolution CTD (248 stations)


