[copy of a transmittal letter for these data sent to Dr. Bruce

Douglas, Director, NODC, on 26 November 1992]

BRITISH OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTRE

PROUDMAN OCEANOGRAPHIC LABORATORY, BIDSTON OBSERVATORY, BIRKENHEAD, MERSEYSIDE L437RA

26 NOVEMBER 1992

Our Ref: BODC/RKL/6512

Dr. B. Douglas

National Oceanographic Center

NOAA/NESDIS

1825 Connecticut Avenue, NW

Washington DC 20235

U.S.A.

Dear Dr. Douglas,

Please find enclosed the CD-ROM based North Sea Project Data set. It encorporates over 95 percent of the data collected on the following NERC research cruises in the Southern North Sea.

Challenger 28 Challenger 33 Challenger 34 Challenger 35 Challenger 36

Challenger 37 Challenger 39 Challenger 40 Challenger 41 Challenger 42

Challenger 43 Challenger 44 Challenger 45 Challenger 46 Challenger 47

Challenger 48 Challenger 49 Challenger 50 Challenger 51 Challenger 52

Challenger 53 Challenger 54 Challenger 55 Challenger 56 Challenger 57

Challenger 58 Challenger 59 Challenger 60 Challenger 61 Challenger 62

Challenger 62A Challenger 64 Challenger 65 Challenger 66A Challenger 66B

Challenger 69 Challenger 72A Challenger 72C

I am sending this to you as a contribution toward our bilateral exchange agreement. The

data set includes nearly 4,000 CTD casts and approximately 10,000 water bottle samples

which I feel will be of particular interest to you.

Yours Sincerely,

(signed)

Dr. R. K. Lowry

enc.

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