Sid, Mitch,
Use Accession Number 9800145 for these data.

FYI, this is the summary information for the Weekly Acquisition Report:
Accession Number:  9800145
Date Received:  02-Oct-98
Data Type:  CTD, Bottle
Observation Period:  Jul 1996 - Mar 1998
Region:  Columbia River Estuary
Number of Observations:  2349 casts
Source:  Oregon Grad. Inst. of Oceanography
Comments:  CRETM / Land Margin Ecosystem Research Project
LO:  Stillwaugh
Parameters:  temperature, salinity, optical, chlorophyll
Coastal/Deep:  Coastal

Doug

Sidney D. Stillwaugh wrote:

> Date: 2 October 1998
>
> To  : Doug Hamilton
>
> From: Sidi Stillwaugh
>
> Subj: CRETM/LMER CTD Data Transfer
>
> Doug:
>
>         I have placed on the NODC anonymous ftp server, pub/incoming,
> a total of 59 ASCII files.  There are 2 metadata files, 5 station
> files and 52 CTD data files.  These data are 1996, 1997 and early 1998
>
> data sets representing half hourly time series CTD data for stations
> in the lower Columbia River Estuary.  They were extracted from the
> Columbia River Estuarine Turbidity Maximum (CRETM)/Land Margin
> Ecosystem
> Research Project (LMER) web site (url provided below).  CTD and
> station
> metadata files describe the who, what, where and contacts for the
> project as well as the parameters found within the data sets.  The
> station data file provided for each years data (or portion of the
> year; ex: 1997a, 1997b, 1997c) provides station locations and some
> accompanying pump cast data (see metadata).  Some editing was
> required in the CTD data "time" field in most files to remove "non
> time" characters leaving blanks.  Also, in portions of most CTD files,
>
> data in columns 4 on are found to be shifted left, directly adjacent
> to the time field.  The editing was too extensive for any of my PC
> editors so has not been changed, but this anomaly does not make the
> data set unreadable, (nothing is overwritten).
>
> File names are as follows:
>
> 1) Metadata files
>
>  a. ctd_meta.txt
>  b. sta_meta.txt
>
> 2) Station location files
>
>  a.1996  - sta1996.txt
>
>  b.1997a - sta1997a.txt
>    1997b - sta1997b.txt
>    1997c - sta1997c.txt
>
>  c.1998a - sta1998a.txt
>
> 3) Data Files
>
>  a. 1996
>
>     96e11pr.txt
>     96n11pr.txt
>     96s11pr.txt
>     96u11pr.txt
>
>  b. 1997a
>
>     97ae11pr.txt
>     97ae12pr.txt
>     97ae13pr.txt
>     97af11pr.txt
>     97af12pr.txt
>     97an11pr.txt
>     97as11pr.txt
>     97as12pr.txt
>     97au11pr.txt
>     97au21pr.txt
>     97ad11pr.txt
>
>  c. 1997b
>
>     97be11pr.txt
>     97be21pr.txt
>     97be22pr.txt
>     97be24pr.txt
>     97bf11pr.txt
>     97bf12pr.txt
>     97bn11pr.txt
>     97bn12pr.txt
>     97bs11pr.txt
>     97bs12pr.txt
>     97bu11pr.txt
>     97bd11pr.txt
>
>  d. 1997c
>
>     97cd11pr.txt
>     97ce11pr.txt
>     97ce12pr.txt
>     97cf11pr.txt
>     97cf12pr.txt
>     97cf13pr.txt
>     97cf14pr.txt
>     97cn11pr.txt
>     97cn12pr.txt
>     97cs11pr.txt
>     97cs12pr.txt
>     97cu11pr.txt
>
>  e. 1998a
>
>     98ad11pr.txt
>     98ae11pr.txt
>     98ae12pr.txt
>     98ae13pr.txt
>     98af11pr.txt
>     98af12pr.txt
>     98af13pr.txt
>     98af14pr.txt
>     98an11pr.txt
>     98an12pr.txt
>     98as11pr.txt
>     98as12pr.txt
>     98au11pr.txt
>
>                  *********************************
>
> NODC Catalog Info
>
> Accession no.         :  9800145
> Date Received         :  2-Oct-1998
> PI/Source             : Dr. David Jay, Center for Coastal and Land
> Margin
>                         Research (CCALMR), Oregon Graduate Institute,
>                         Portland, OR. (djay@iternet.edu)
>                         CRETM web site: http://weber.u.washington.edu/
>
>                         ~cretmweb/CRETM.html
> Data Type             : CTD
> Sampling Method       : continuous (time series) at a fixed location
> Obs. Dates            : July 6, 1996 to March 6, 1998
> Obs. Location         : Lower Columbia River Estuary
> Data Amount           : 52 CTD files
> Ship(s)/Cruise (s)    : various platforms, 1996, 1997a,b,c, 1998a
> Funding Source        : NSF
>
>               ***********************************
>
> Please acknowledge with an NODC accession no. as one is assigned.



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