#TEMPORARY ACCESSION NUMBER:
9900162

#ACCESSION NUMBER:
9900162

#CONTRIBUTOR:
Dr. J.S. Sarupria

#CONTRIBUTOR INSTITUTION:
National Institute of Oceanography (NIO)
Goa, India

#ORIGINATOR:
Dr. M. Madhypratap - Cruise SK77, SK87, SK99
Dr. P.M.A. Bhattathiri - Cruise SK91, SK104
Dr. Dileep Kumar - Cruise SK115
Dr. S. Raghu Kumar - Cruise SK121

#ORIGINATOR INSTITUTION:
National Institute of Oceanography (NIO)
Goa, India

#TITLE:
Seven cruises collecting XBT, CTD, Bottle, Biology 
data from the Arabian Sea, JGOFS India Program, 
from September 1992 through February, 1997 

#PROJECT:
JGOFS Arabian Sea

#LOCATION EXTREMES:
SOUTHERNMOST LATITUDE: 00 00'   HEMISPHERE: N
NORTHERNMOST LATITUDE: 20 00'   HEMISPHERE: N  
WESTERNMOST LONGITUDE: 60 00'  HEMISPHERE: E  
EASTERNMOST LONGITUDE: 80 00'  HEMISPHERE: E  


#LOCATION KEYWORDS:
Arabian Sea

#SAMPLING STATIONS:
142 CTD
49 XBT
96 Bottle
49 Zooplankton
18 Microzooplankton
51 Other biology (phytoplankton, productivity, chlorophyll)

#BEGIN AND END DATES:
BEGIN DATE: 1992/09/21
END DATE: 1997/02/26


#INSTRUMENT TYPES:
Bottle, XBT, CTD, net tows

#SUBMITTING MEDIUM:
CD-ROM

#FILE FORMATS:
column format, header and data on same line

#FILENAMES:
biology.txt, ctd.txt, chemistry.txt, zoo.txt, 
microzoo.txt

#DATASET SIZE:
 52639  biology.txt
312577  chemistry.txt
3331699 ctd.txt
   9522 microzoo.txt
412291  xbt.txt*
27493   zoo.txt