#TEMPORARY ACCESSION NUMBER:
G. HEIMERDINGER E-MAIL MESSAGE, DATA TRANSMITTAL, "TRANS81"

#ACCESSION NUMBER:

#CONTRIBUTOR:
George Heimerdinger
NODC N.E. Liaison Officer

#CONTRIBUTOR INSTITUTION:

#ORIGINATOR:
Dr. Arnold Gordon
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
  of Columbia University
Palisades, NY  10964
phone: 914.365.8325
fax: 914.365.8157
email: agordon@ldeo.columbia.edu

and

Dr. Indroyono Soesilo
Technology for Natural Resources Development Division
  Agency for Assessment and
  Application of Technology (BPPT)
Jl. M.H. Thamrin 8
Jakarta Pusat 10340
Indonesia
phone: 62.21.3169700  or  62.21.31269702
fax: 62.21.324255

#ORIGINATOR INSTITUTION:
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory  of Columbia University

and

Technology for Natural Resources Development Division
     Agency for Assessment and
Application of Technology (BPPT)

#TITLE:
Temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, and nutrient chemistries,
November-December 1996 from the ship Kal Baruna Jaya IV; CTD profiler
and CTD rosette bottle sampler; Arlindo Circulation project; Makassar Strait,
Indonesia

#PROJECT:
ARLINDO Circulation, A Study of the Indonesian Ocean Circulation and Mixing

#ABSTRACT:

#PURPOSE:
To resolve the throughflow transport and velocity field across the central 
passages of the Indonesian Seas; extend the ARLINDO 1993/94 CTD coverage both 
temporally and regionally.

#LOCATION EXTREMES:
SOUTHERNMOST LATITUDE:  8.2742
SOUTHERNMOST LATITUDE HEMISPHERE:  S
NORTHERNMOST LATITUDE:  1.4155
NORTHERNMOST LATITUDE HEMISPHERE:  S
WESTERNMOST LONGITUDE:  118.299
WESTERNMOST LATITUDE HEMISPHERE:  E
EASTERNMOST LONGITUDE:  131.533
EASTERNMOST LATITUDE HEMISPHERE:  E

#LOCATION KEYWORDS:
Indonesian Sea
Makassar Strait

#SAMPLING STATIONS:

#BEGIN AND END DATES:
1996/11/21 - 1996/12/13

#SAMPLING PERIODS:

#PARAMETERS:
date/time, GMT
latitude, decimal degrees
longitude, decimal degrees 
water depth, meters uncorrected
pressure, decibars
temperature, deg. C (ipts-68)
salinity , practical salinity units (pss-78)
oxygen, ctd and bottle, ml/l
nitrate, umol/kg
silicate, umol/kg
phosphate, umol/kg

#METHODOLOGY:

#INSTRUMENT TYPES:
Sea Bird 11 system

#REFERENCES: 
  Gordon, A.L.  (1997)  Arlindo Circulation Project Monitors Throughflow,
  WOCE Notes (May 1997) Vol. 9(l): 1-6.

  Gordon, A.L. and R.D. Susanto.  (1999)  Makassar Strait Transport: Initial
  Estimate Based on Arlindo Results.  Marine Technology Society 32(4): 34-45.

#SUBMITTING MEDIUM:

#FILE FORMATS: 
p3 compatible:
flat ascii comma delimited files, one file per ctd profile, bottle cast 
profiles combined as a single file

original files:
as formated by submitting PI

#FILENAMES:
zip = DOS PKZIPPED files

CTD...
ac96corg.zip (original data)
ac96c_p3.zip (p3 compatible)

bottle data....
ac96borg.zip (original data)
ac96bot.p3   (p3 compatible)

meta data....
gordon.doc
ac_gfh.inv
ac_gfh.cat
format.doc

#DATASET SIZE

#NUMBER OF DATA UNITS:
37 CTD profiles
32 bottle cast profiles

#MISCELLANEOUS:
See companion data sets 1993 and 1994. NODC accession number 9600152