George, Mitch,

Info is below.  Also, George, I noticed that files u103s_1.hr and
u329s_1.hr should contain salinity measurements (? from the file name),
but actually contain pressure measurements.

Doug

George Heimerdinger wrote:

> Date:  July 9, 1998
> To  :  Doug Hamilton
> From:  George Heimerdinger
> Subj:  Mass/Cape Cod Bays mooring data, Brown, UNH
>
> Doug:
>
> I have placed on NODC's anonymous FTP site 6 DOS PKZIPPED files
> of mooring data collected by Dr. Wendell Brown, Univ. of New
> Hampshire for a Massachusetts - Cape Cod Bays Study (1990-91).
> Each zipped file contains all the measurements made at a given
> mooring:  East and North components of currents, temperature,
> salinity and pressure (note..not all parameters were measured at
> each mooring).  Each data file contains a single parameter and is
> is self documenting.   Additional supporting meta data
> documentation can be found in:  Geyer, Rockwell W., et. al.,
> 1992.  Physical Oceanographic Investigation of Massachusetts and
> Cape Cod Bays.  Report to the Massachusetts Bays Program, MBP-92-
> 03.
>
> File names are as follows:
>
> PKZIP files:   moor_u1.zip, moor_u2.zip, moor_u3.zip, moor_u5.zip
>                moor_u6.zip and moor_u7.zip  (u1-u7 are mooring
>                names)
>
> data files:   data file names can be translated as follows....ie
>                   file name u105en1.hr
>               u1 = mooring name or ID
>               05 = depth of instrument on mooring from surface
>                   (meters)
>               en, t, s, p = data type (en=east and north
>                   components of currents, t=temperature,
>                   s=salinity, p=pressure)
>               1,2,3 = deployment number
>               .hr = hourly averaged data
> meta files:
>
> NODC Catalog Info-------------------------
>
> ACCESSION #    9800091
> DATE RECEIVED    9-Jul-98
> PI/SOURCE          Dr. Wendell Brown, Univ. of New Hampshire
> PROJECT            Massachusetts Bays Program
> DATA TYPE          Mooring data (currents, temperature, pressure,
>                       salinity) hourly averaged
> OBS. DATES         Apr 1990 - May 1991 continuous (max. duration)
> OBS. LOCATION      Massachusetts and Cape Cod Bays
>      Mooring       U1  42 36.7N 70 39.8W
>      Mooring       U2  42 32.0N 70 29.0W
>      Mooring       U3  42 22.2N 70 20.5W
>      Mooring       U5  42 03.7N 70 14.6W
>      Mooring       U6  42 21.2N 70 24.3W
>      Mooring       U7  41 58.0N 70 20.0W
> DATA AMOUNT        6 moorings, instrumented for 4 parameters
>                       at 3 levels (max.)
> MOORING NAMES      U1, U2, U3, U5, U6, U7
>
> Please acknowledge with an NODC accession number inserted above



--

Douglas Hamilton
National Oceanographic Data Center
1315 East-West Highway
Silver Spring, MD 20910
dhamilton@nodc.noaa.gov
(301) 713-3277 x151