- Name, address, telephone and fax numbers of responsible data submitter
  organizations

  Larry P. Atkinson
  Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography
  Old Dominion University
  Norfolk, Virginia 23529
  1-757-683-4926 (Office)
  1-757-683-5550 (Fax)
  atkinson@ccpo.odu.edu

- Name of principal investigator(s) with telephone, e-mail addresses,
  and fax numbers

  Arnoldo Valle-Levinson
  Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography
  Old Dominion University
  Norfolk, Virginia 23529
  1-757-683-5578 (Office)
  1-757-683-5550 (Fax)
  arnoldo@ccpo.odu.edu

  Ricardo A. Locarnini
  NOAA/National Oceanographic Data Center
  Ocean Climate Laboratory E/OC5
  1315 East-West Highway
  Silver Spring, Maryland 20910-3282
  1-301-713-3290 x 209 (Office)
  1-301-713-3303 (Fax)
  ricardo@nodc.noaa.gov

- Program, project, expedition name

  Lower Chesapeake Bay Monitoring Project

- Data collectors' identifying numbers, e.g., cruise and leg numbers,
  cast numbers

  SUMMARY
  Four cruises aboard different platforms.
  Each cruise's data in one file, i.e. 960926.dat.
  About 20 stations in each cruise for a total of 81 CTD profiles.

  SHIPS/PLATFORMS
  R/V Linwood Holton - 33LH
  Miss Jana          - 33XX
  R/V ODU-2          - 33OD
  R/V Cynoscion      - 33CY

  DATES (UTC) OF DATA COLLECTION (BEGIN-END)
  Begin 26 September 1996 1209
  End   26 October   1999 1507

  GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION-LATITUDE(S)/LONGITUDE(S)
  Lower Chesapeake Bay
  36.9N-37.3N/76.0W-76.3W

  OBJECTIVES OF DATA COLLECTION EFFORT
  Obtain a long-term time series of hydrographic conditions
  across the Lower Chesapeake Bay.

  HEADERS INFORMATION
  Ship code; Station number or name; Day - UTC; Month - UTC;
  Year - UTC; Time - Hours (UTC); Time - Minutes (UTC); Depth (m);
  Latitude; Longitude; CTD Instrument; Principal investigator.
  
  DATA PARAMETER(S)
  Depth                - meters
  Temperature          - degC, IPTS-68
  Salinity             - PSS-78
  Oxygen               - ml/l
  Chlorophyll          - volts
  Light transmissivity - %

  INSTRUMENT/GEAR IDENTIFICATION
  Sea-Bird SBE 25 Sealogger CTD
  Sea-Bird SBE 19 SEACAT Profiler

  DATA PROCESSING/REDUCTION METHODOLOGY
  CTD data acquisition software, Seasoft, Version 4.236.
  Sea-Bird Electronics, Inc., Bellevue, WA, 143 pp., 1999.

  EXPLANATIONS OF DATA QUALITY FLAGS
  No flags
  Missing values = -9.00000 or -9.00

  CITATIONS OF RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS AND GREY LITERATURE
  Locarnini, R. A., A. Valle-Levinson, L. P. Atkinson, R. C. Kidd, 
  and J. L. Miller.  Climatology of the Chesapeake Bay Mouth.  Tech.
  report, CCPO TR 00-01, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography,
  Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, 75 pp., 2000.

  Reyes-Hernandez, C., and A. Valle-Levinson.  Monthly hydrography
  in the Lower Chesapeake Bay, 1996.  Data report, CCPO TR 97-04,
  Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, Old Dominion University,
  Norfolk, Virginia, 70 pp., 1997.