November 1998

The Hydrographer of the International Council for Exploration of the
Seas provided these files to the World Data Center A for Oceanography.
They contain hydrographic bottle and CTD data collected by German
ships during 1920 - 1989.  There are a total of 54,496 stations 
from 56 ships.  The table below lists the number of stations
from each ship, as identified by ship code in the data.  The geographic
distribution of station positions is in file geo.gif.

Data are recorded in ICES format, as documented in "Manual on ICES
Oceanographic Punch Cards", 4th edition, 1979.

Ship # stations
062N 489
067F 189
0690 304
0699 366
06A3 30
06A4 682
06AD 11036
06AF 18
06AK 960
06AL 190
06AN 102
06AQ 382
06AU 1228
06AZ 749
06BG 374
06BM 825
06BO 153
06DA 3675
06FE 329
06FI 108
06GA 6167
06HB 134
06HF 3853
06HP 352
06HT 167
06HU 198
06HW 1816
06JH 34
06JW 68
06KM 159
06KO 1299
06KW 504
06LT 7
06ME 825
06MK 305
06MR 56
06MT 2533
06OS 671
06P8 158
06PA 11
06PB 28
06PL 1701
06PO 3395
06S2 81
06SF 961
06SO 1045
06TA 8
06TR 51
06UT 2619
06VI 440
06WH 2133
06WT 55
06ZI 51
06aq 100
06bf 242
06nl 80
TOTAL STATIONS  54496 from 56 ships
