Subject: CTD Data Submission From: Ruby Becker Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:12:11 -0400 To: Francis Mitchell Francis, One more submission today: Attached are 4 zip files containing data from sound velocity casts acquired by four launches of the NOAA Ship RAINIER for Project OPR-O190-RA-08, West of Prince of Wales.. 1. RA_LAUNCH1_CTD_2008_3.zip contains 6 files. 2. RA_LAUNCH3_CTD_2008_3.zip contains 9 files. 3. RA_LAUNCH4_CTD_2008_3.zip contains 20 files. 4. RA_LAUNCH5_CTD_2008_3.zip contains 15 files. Total: 50 files The headers in the files contain Project, Survey, Date, Time, Latitude, Longitude, and Instrument information. Pressure and Temperature were obtained directly from a Sea-Bird Electronics 19Plus Seacat Profiler . Salinity was derived using Sea-Birds's software, SBEDataProcessing. All three variables have been averaged into depth bins and then fitted to 1-decibar intervals by means of parabolic fitting. The filenames for the CTD files have format YYDDDHHMM.ssA where: YY = 2-digit year DDD = day-of-year HH = hour of the day (UTC) MM = minutes of the hour ss indicates the vessel: R1, R3, R4, R5 for launches 1, 3, 4, 5 respectively. A indicates that the archive is of type CTD RA_LAUNCH1_CTD_2008_3.ZIP Content-Type: application/zip Content-Encoding: base64 RA_LAUNCH3_CTD_2008_3.ZIP Content-Type: application/zip Content-Encoding: base64 RA_LAUNCH4_CTD_2008_3.ZIP Content-Type: application/zip Content-Encoding: base64 RA_LAUNCH5_CTD_2008_3.ZIP Content-Type: application/zip Content-Encoding: base64