Subject: 	Exchange of Royal Australian Navy CTD data
Date: 	Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:13:43 +1100
From: 	Luke Callcut <luke@metoc.gov.au>
To: 	<NODC.DataOfficer@noaa.gov>
CC: 	<Charles.Sun@noaa.gov>, "'andrew walsh'" <awalsh@metoc.gov.au>, "'Greg 
Reed'" <greg@metoc.gov.au>

To whom it may concern,

Here at RAN's Ocean Data Services we have recently finished quality controlling 
a backlog of CTD data. These files are in netCDF format, and I have attached an 
example netCDF spec document to this email (cdl_specV9.txt). Below I have also 
detailed some additional metadata, and have also attached a distribution map 
(RAN_CTD_all.png):

Date range: January 2004 - August 2012 (data will be collected and processed 
from now on)

Number of cruises: 41 (20 MVP-200, 21 HS-CTD)

Total number of profiles: 3,518 (3,146 MVP-200, 372 HS-CTD)

The data is currently available on our THREDDS server at the following URL: 
http://www.metoc.gov.au/thredds/catalog/RAN_CTD_DATA/catalog.html. It should be 
possible to harvest the netCDF files off this URL.

Let me know if you have questions regarding this data.

Kind regards,
Luke Callcut

Ocean Data Services, RAN Hydrography & Metoc Branch
Data Management Officer
Level 2, Bay E201
Building 89/90
GardenIsland, Potts Point NSW 2011
Tel: +61 2 9359 3129 Fax: +61 2 9359 3120
E-mail: luke.callcut@defence.gov.au | luke@metoc.gov.au
