George Heimerdinger wrote:

> Date:  Oct. 15, 1998
> To  :  Doug Hamilton
> From:  George Heimerdinger
> Subj:  NASA Aircraft observed optical properties
>
> Doug:
>
> I have placed on NODC's anonymous FTP site 7 DOS PKZIPPed files
> containing 44 files (segiments/legs) of aircraft measured
> reflected and light induced properties of the sea surface.  These
> data are released by Dr. Frank Hoge, NASA as part of the JGOFS,
> Arabian Sea program.  Each zipped file contains two files of meta
> data (aol_read.me and aol.txt) and one file per segiment/leg for
> a give flight. One flight per day.
>
> file names are as follows:
>
> 19950706.zip  consisting of 7 segiments/legs
> 19950708.zip                10
> 19950710.zip                7
> 19950712.zip                7
> 19950717.zip                6
> 19950720.zip                3
> 19950721.zip                4
>
> File names can be decoded as the flight date YYYYMMDD.zip
>
> NODC Catalog Info-------------------------
>
> ACCESSION #    9800154
> DATE RECEIVED   15-Oct-1998
> PI/SOURCE          Dr. Frank Hoge, NASA/Goddard
> PROJECT            U.S. JGOFS, Arabian Sea
> DATA TYPE(S)       Sea surface temperature, optical measurements
>                    of Dissolved organic matter, phycoerythrin-
>                    phycouribilin complex, phycoerythrin
>                    fluorescence and chlorophyll concentration
> SAMPLING METHOD    aircraft observed using a radiation
>                    thermometer and a laser fluorospectrometer
> OBS. DATES         July 1995, selected days, continuous
> OBS. LOCATION      Arabian Sea
> DATA AMOUNT        7 flights of various durations
>
> Please acknowledge with an NODC accession number inserted above



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