
submitter:
Philip Mele
202 Oceanography
L-DEO of Columbia Univeristy
Palisades, New York
o:845.365.8575  f:845.365.8157
email: pmele@ldeo.columbia.edu

PI: CTD
Arnold L Gordon
203 Oceanography
L-DEO of Columbia Univeristy
Palisades, New York
o:845.365.8325  f:845.365.8157
email: agordon@ldeo.columbia.edu

project:
PhilEx exploratory cruise

funding agency:
ONR

CTD data: px01.NNN where NNN is station number from 001 to 142
142 high resolution CTD stations, 1-142, from 6 Jun 2007 to 2 Jul 2007.
Melville, NODC code: 318M, cruise MGLN20MV.
north: 14   south: 8   east: 127   west: 119
acquisition with SeaBird 911plus CTD, processed with SeaBird data
processing software.

data file description:
C318M    1  1  14.0000  119.1333 2007/06/06 157 13:21  PX01
&zc:4590  zm:2587
RV Melville  MGLN20MV
@pr	te	sa	ox
2	31.0814	33.5852	4.336
3	30.8918	33.5708	4.342
4	30.6672	33.5657	4.341
5	30.6364	33.5696	4.342
6	30.6058	33.5702	4.346
7	30.5837	33.5760	4.345
8	30.5847	33.5860	4.350

(-9 for unknown value)

line 1: all for start of downcast
  C318M: C for CTD data
         318M for NODC ship code (Melville)
  1:     station
  1:     cast
  14.0000:  lat in decimal degrees
  119.1333: lon in decimal degrees
  2007/06/06: year/month/day
  157:  yearday
  13:21: hour:minutes, GMT
  PX01:  internal (LDEO) cruise name

line 2:
  &zc:4590: corrected bottom depth in meters
  zm:2587:  distance of CTD off bottom in meters

line 3:
  ship name and cruise


line 4:  id for data
  @pr:  CTD pressure in dbars
  te:   CTD temp in deg C, ipts-68
  sa:   CTD salinity, pss
  ox:   CTD oxygen, ml/l

line 4 to end:  data
pressure, temperature, salinity and oxygen as above, tab delimitered
