
Subject: Re: WOCE98 data
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 12:23:23 +1000
From: Lisa Cowen <ljc@bom.gov.au>
To: Melanie Hamilton <melanie@nodc.noaa.gov>


Hi Melanie,

>I didn't realize that when I attempted to load the histories
>for the "1998BOMdata.MA", the software didn't load them 
>because the file has 1 nonascii character in a station.
No worries! I'm just glad it was a relatively easy fix/work-around!  :)
I've ftped over the new version of the files. Meant to email you on Friday
but got sidetracked with other QC isssues!

>CSID 45891...GYRW, there is a <DEL> between the Q_Record,
>and the UpdateDate fields.  It appears as if there are
>no depth/temp pairs for this station as well.  
I dont know what happened with this drop. I can read it using "Quest" -
but looking at the meds-ascii file can see that one of Q_Pos, Q_Date_time
or Q_Record must be missing. (Obviously Quest isn't too fussy about
formatting!?!) 
So that would probably explain why your system has put a <DEL> character
in there! As you found the station contains no actual data - it was
flagged with "No Trace Reject" - class4. Well it would have been if there
was any data to flag!  
I'm not entirely sure what to do with this - but i guess the most
appropriate thing to do is to just throw out that station, since we're not 
actually losing any data. A successful repeat station was done shortly
afterwards. 


While looking through all these meds-ascii files, I was surprised to find
another CSIRO-monitored ship with realtime data. The missing delayed mode
data was from The Swan Reefer (S6FK) from 28 September to 2 October 1998.
I asked Ann about this and she's been able to track down the missing data.
It looks like the data was late getting to her and missed the cut-off
date for submission to you. I'm not too sure how to edit such long files,
so could you please update the sep & oct meds-ascii files for me?  I've
attached the file to this email and will also put in our ftp site
(ftp.bom.gov.au), in case it doesn't transfer properly:  
ftp> cd /anon/home/bmrc/10day 
ftp> dir 
200 PORT command successful.  
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /usr/bin/ls. 
-rw-r--r-- 1 134    118 170183 Sep 24 02:05 srtest.MA.gz

There's no rush on this one - it will be a while before I get that far
into the 98 data! :)

While you're at our ftp site, you might also want to pick the latest BoM
dataset:
ftp> cd /anon/home/bmrc/perm/JAFOOS/ 
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> dir 
200 PORT command successful. 
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /usr/bin/ls. 
-rw-r--r-- 1 134     118      10800142 Sep 24 02:22 BOM2000.MA.gz


And i think thats just about everything for the time being....!

cheerio,
lisa

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