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Subject: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 16:07:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Theodore D. Foster x22478" <tfoster@seadog.ucsd.edu>
To: ricardo@nodc.noaa.gov, tfoster@ocean2.ucsd.edu

                                                ~1605, 10 September 2002
Dear Ricardo,
        I received two copies of your last e-mail so I guess the "ocean2"
does work.  Since I receive e-mail from all over the world and I have only
informed a very few people of the troubles with "seadog", I told the
computer "guru" to make the "seadog" address, but allow mail addressed
to tfoster@ocean2.ucsd.edu to be received too -- I guess he did that so
there is no reason to include both addresses.
        In answer to your queries:
        Ships:
              1987  POLAR DUKE (most of crew and officers Canadians)
              1991  POLAR DUKE (most of crew and officers Norwegians)
              1992  NATHANIEL B. PALMER (maiden voyage Captain some friend
                     of Edison Chouest without any experience in working in
                     the ice, one reasonably competent mate plus two others,
                     and mostly Filipinos for crew.  An excellent group from
                     ASA and a Captain-in-training, who now is usually the
                     Captain (all the Chief Scientists complained about the
                     original "Captain" so I guess ASA replaced him).
              1995  NATHANIEL B. PALMER (this time the Captain was truely
                     outstanding -- very experienced and cooperative, but the
                     ASA party was very poor except for one of the computer
                     people.
        CTD:
              1987, 1991 and 1992  Neil Brown Mark 3B (CTD #2)
              1995  We used the Neil Brown designed similar to Neil Brown
                     Mark 3B (but fabricated at Scripps) for the first 38 CTD
                     stations but I believe CTD stations 36, 37 and 38 are
                     so eratic to be almost worthless -- they were corrected
                     by me by spending several weeks to be of somewhat useful.
                     The stations 39 and higher used the same Neil Brown Mark
                     3B as in 1987, 1991 and 1992 (The SIO Shipboard Technical
                     Support group maintains my two CTDs, but thought the much
                     older CTD was somewhat better so mistakenly I took their
                     advice and used the older CTD #1).
        Temperature Scale:
                    The CTDs are always checked against reversing thermometers
                     that are carefully calibrated with a very special range:
                     -2.0 to +2.0 degrees Celsius, and by the Technical Support
                     group before and after each cruise.  I imagine that the
                     temperature scales they use are the latest at the time,
                     but since the accuracy is probably less than +/- 0.005 C
                     does it really matter?
        Project Names:
             1987:  Weddell Sea Oceanographic Expedition 1987
             1991:  Weddell Sea Oceanographic Expedition 1991
             1992:  Weddell Sea Oceanographic Expedition 1992
             1995:  Wilkes Land Oceanographic Expedition 1995

These project names are not OFFICIAL, but ones we used to label our data etc.

        I expect to be in my office ~0800 to ~1030 and then ~1130 to ~1700 (PDT)
so if you have any more questions please let me know.  I just talked with the
woman at the Scripps Oceanographic Data Facility, and she said she is so busy
now it might take her up to a month to get the bottle data of these expeditions.
        Best wishes,
                        Ted
P.S. I am flying back east to attend a "Family Gathering" in Belmar, New Jersey
and expect to be away 17 through 23 September.

Subject: THE DATA HAVE BEEN SENT
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 10:39:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Theodore D. Foster x22478" <tfoster@seadog.ucsd.edu>
To: Ricardo.Locarnini@noaa.gov, tfoster@ocean2.ucsd.edu

                                                ~1035, 10 September 2002
Dear Ricardo,
        I just "ftped" the four tarred and compressed data files for
1987, 1991, 1992, and 1995 Southern Ocean expeditions to ftp.nodc.noaa.gov
as you instructed using bin.  I also included the directories for each
using ascii.
        I called Scripps Oceanographic Data Facility several times last
week with no luck, but I finally tried to call one of the technicians who
had been on most of these expeditions and although he did not answer the
telephone another technician told me he would get the woman who was in
charge of the ODF.  She told me she was quite busy so she had never returned
any of my previous calls, but she "thought" she still had the bottle data
results and would call me back.  I am hoping she does have them, as I have
moved so many times I am sure I saved the paper copies, but where in the
vast number of cartons I have them I do not remember.  Perhaps, I will
call her again -- that might be much faster.
        I am still having much trouble with my e-mail on my computer ever
since the old Sun 20 (seadog) was turned off and I now receive e-mail on
my newest Sun Ultra 5 (ocean2).  My e-mail address remains:
        tfoster@seadog.ucsd.edu
though I think my computer "guru" set it up so that I can also receive
e-mail with the address:  tfoster@ocean2.ucsd.edu  but I am not sure though
I know e-mail to tfoster@ucsd.edu probably is returned to the sender.  Oh
well, I think that although I am a Professor Emeritus from the University
of California, Santa Cruz the University of California, San Diego does not
recognize that campus so I have only limited privileges here.
        Best wishes,
                        Ted

Subject: MY EXTREMELY POOR MEMORY
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:34:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Theodore D. Foster x22478" <tfoster@seadog.ucsd.edu>
To: ricardo@nodc.noaa.gov, tfoster@ocean2.ucsd.edu

                                        ~1335 (PDT), 3 September 2002
Dear Ricardo,
        Professor Munk called me about a ten days ago to tell me that
Dr Levitus had sent him a message (back on 3 July 2002!) asking him to
contact me about several sets of data from my expeditions to the Antarctic
Ocean that I had not yet sent NODC.  Unfortunately, the computer that I
use for e-mail had just failed so I could not do anything about his
request until today.  All my CTD dasta are stored on different computer
than the one that failed (I think for good, but I may never find out as
it is expensive to repair computers these days, and I no longer have a
grant to pay for the repairs).
        I am afraid that without someone to help me remember things I
almost always forget.  I do indeed have four more sets of CTD data
from expeditions I made to Antarctic waters in 1987, 1991, 1992 and 1995.
The first three were to the Weddell Sea while the 1995 one was to the
region just off the coast of Wilkes Land (the same region as my 1985
expedition).  Unfortunately, with several computer failures and moves,
I do not even remember where the bottle data for these expeditions are.
The people at Lamont-Doherty sent someone to do their chemical sampling
along on the 1991, 1992 and 1995 expeditions (I think).  The people to
contact there are Professor Peter Schlosser, Dr Smethie and Dr Takahashi.
It has been so long since I last visited Lamont-Doherty that I am not too
sure about exactly what their sampling was for or if they have even been
able to analyze the samples.  Dr Takahashi's sampling was for carbon
dioxide, and I think he has analyzed the samples and perhaps even written
a paper or two.  The best person to contact would be Dr Smethie; however,
the Scripps Oceanographic Data Facility here did all the work on analyzing
seawater samples for salinity, oxygen and nutrients.  They sent me a copy
of all their results each year, but it will take me quite a bit of time
to locate those data -- it might be faster (and less time consuming for
me) if I just called them to see if they saved those results.  In any event,
I do have all the CTD data -- except oxygen on the 1987, 1991 and 1992
expeditions though I "think" we did have those data on the 1992 expedition.
        The CTD data are all stored in the same format as the 1985 data
that I sent you last year (in August maybe).  The position for the oxygen
CTD data is blank on the 1987, 1991 and 1992 expedition sets.
        Please let me know exactly where and how I can send these data to
you.
        Best regards,
                        Ted Foster
