
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: XBT/CTD data requested from Randy Watts (fwd)
Date: 	Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:30:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: 	Tim Boyer <Tim.Boyer@noaa.gov>
To: 	Hernan Garcia <Hernan.Garcia@noaa.gov>


Hernan,

  Can I please get an accession number for the dataset detailed
  in column 1126 of OCL tracking?  The accompanying email is
  below.

Thanks,
Tim

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:30:25 -0400
From: Karen Tracey <ktracey@gso.uri.edu>
To: Tim Boyer <Tim.Boyer@noaa.gov>
Subject: Re: XBT/CTD  data requested from Randy Watts

Tim --

   I created a tar file which contains the XBT and CTD data sets from SYNOP 
along with a meta-file.  I hope the information is sufficient to make these 
data useful.  Please let me know if something is unclear.   I tried to email 
the file to you, but it appears that the file was rejected by your mail server 
for being too large.  I have put the file on an ftp site:

po.gso.uri.edu
login:  anonymous
password: email address
cd pub/downloads/karen
get SYNOP.tar

Alternatively, you should be able to get to the file from your internet browser 
by going to ftp://po.gso.uri.edu and follow the directory structure listed 
above.

Regards,
Karen

> Karen,
> 
>   Thank you very much for preparing the data.  Please send
>   the data directly to me when it is ready.  GSO has been
>   very diligent in sending data to NODC over the years.
>   But, as you mention, each PI handles their own data, and
>   on rare occassions, the data do not make it to NODC.
>   We do have SYNOP current data, submitted in 1994 by
>   Erik Fields.  But I have not found any CTD or XBT data
>   in our archive associated with SYNOP.  Earlier this year,
>   I did contact Tom Rossby about the earlier CTD/XBT comparison data.
>   Again, the project in which he was involved at the time
>   did send large amounts of data to NODC, but not the data
>   from the cruise in question.  He did not have the data.
> 
> Regards,
> Tim
> 
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Karen Tracey wrote:
> 
>> Tim --
>> 
>>   Randy Watts forwarded me your message regarding our XBT and CTD data from 
>> 1989 used to examine XBT biases discussed in the article.  We thought that 
>> those data had been submitted to NODC years ago along with our IES and 
>> current meter records.  I have succeeded in locating electronic versions of 
>> both the CTD and XBT records.  However, it'll take  me a little more time to 
>> get position and timing information associated with each record before they 
>> can be made available.
>> 
>>  In addition to the data used for the comparison, I have also located 
>> additional XBTs taken during the SYNOP program on several other cruises. 
>> These do not have companion CTDs.
>> 
>> When I'm finished getting the header data associated with the correct files, 
>> should I send the data directly to you?
>> 
>> There is no data depository here at GSO. Typically each PI is in charge of 
>> his/her own data. As such, I don't have access to any of Tom Rossby's data. 
>> I will forward your request to him.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> --Karen Tracey
>> 
>> 
>>> *From: *Tim Boyer <boyer@nodc.noaa.gov <mailto:boyer@nodc.noaa.gov>>
>>> *Date: *September 22, 2008 3:07:00 PM EDT
>>> *To: *DRandolph Watts <rwatts@gso.uri.edu <mailto:rwatts@gso.uri.edu>>
>>> *Subject: **Re: article request*
>>> 
>>> Randy,
>>> 
>>>   Thank you for getting me the paper so fast.  Would it be
>>>   ok to make the pdf available to the public through the webpage
>>>   I listed below?
>>> 
>>>   We do not have the CTD or XBT data used for your report in
>>>   our archive here at the National Oceanographic Data Center.
>>>   Do you have copies of the data you could send to us?  I have
>>>   also been looking for some XBT/CTD comparison data from
>>>   Tom Rossby taken on the Oceanus in 1976.  Is there a repository
>>>   at GSO for XBT and CTD data taken from the Oceanus?
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Tim
>> 
>> -- 
>> *********************************************************************
>>      Karen L. Tracey  -- Marine Research Specialist
>> Graduate School of Oceanography -- University of Rhode Island
>>   215 South Ferry Road, Narragansett, RI 02882  USA
>>        Tel: 401-874-6514     FAX: 401-874-6728
>>                email: ktracey@gso.uri.edu
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>

