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		  Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department
			      Japan Coast Guard
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						Our Ref: JODC-E 10103 
						Date:     2 Feb. 2004

Mr. Sydney Levitus
Director
World Data Center for Oceanography, Silver Spring
NODC/NOAA, E/OC5
1315 East-West Highway,
Silver Spring, MD 20910-3282
USA

Subject: Sending Oceanographic Data observed Japan Research Institute

Dear Mr. Sydney Levitus,

    We are very pleased to send you Serial Station, CTD and BT data obtained
by Japanese research institutes in CD-ROM as a part of the lODE activity
promoted by IOCIUNESCO. These data were received and processed by JODC from
Feb 2003.
    The CD-ROM contains the BT Data observed by Japan Maritime Self-Defence
Force from 1995 to 2001, Japan Antarctic Research Expedition data up to the
42nd, Serial station data observed by Hydrographic Department before 1945, XBT
data observed by Japan Coast Guard from 2002 to 2003, XBT data observed by
TOHOKU univ. and CTD data by Ocean Research Institute, TOKYO univ. at the
MARIANA Trench.
    Please refer the following Web page for data format, respectively.
	http://idosslliodc.go.jpINEWJDOSSHP/format/fetiformat/fetiliste.htm
    Thank you for your cooperation.

		Yours sincerely

		(signed)
		Nobuyuki SHIBAYAMA
		Director
		Japan Oceanographic Data Center (JODC)