Marie Robert and I have received many requests for Line P data over the past
year.  We have been working to get data verified and in a standard format
for the 1990s, but are finding that time is limited to do this.
Consequently, I have placed the data we submitted to WOCE, plus a few extra
spreadsheets on our anon-ftp site.  You are welcome to copy these files.
Our site address is ftp://ftp.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca  

Look in the directory:		pub/whitney/pr6

Please acknowledge the Line P Program of the Institute of Ocean Sciences,
Fisheries and Oceans Canada, when you use these data, and feel free to let
others know that, at present, this data is available.  

Data from 1991-96 is zipped by cruise (CTD and hydro, including oxygen,
nitrate+nitrite, phosphate and silicate).  In 1997-98, CTD data is zipped
and hydro data is in Excel spreadsheets.  At the moment, I can provide no
more data than this.  I have been looking at some of our historical results
and realize that we need to clean these up before making them available.  I
see many questionable values that look like transcription errors from old
data reports.    

This report, in preparation, summarizes our work along Line P in the past
decade, and is included as the file, LineP.zip -

Summary of Hydrographic/CTD Observations made along Line P and at Station P:
1991-1999
Bernard Minkley and Frank Whitney 

You will find some interpretation of Line P results from the past decade in:

Whitney, F.A., Wong, C.S., and Boyd, P.W.  1998.  Interannual variability in
nitrate supply to surface waters of the Northeast Pacific Ocean.  Mar. Ecol.
Prog. Ser. 170, 15-23.  
Whitney, F.A., and Freeland, H.J.  1999.  Variability in upper-ocean water
properties in the NE Pacific Ocean.  Deep-sea Res II, 46, 2351-2370.
Freeland, H.J., and Whitney, F.A.  2000.  Climatic changes: Gulf of Alaska.
In C. Sheppard, Seas at the Millenium: an environmental evaluation.
Elsevier Science Ltd.
Whitney, F.A. and D.W. Welch.  submitted.  Impact of the 1997-8 El Niņo and
1999 La Niņa on nutrient supply in the Gulf of Alaska.  Progr. Oceanogr. 


Frank Whitney
Institute of Ocean Sciences
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
PO Box 6000
Sidney, B.C., Canada  V8L 4B2
tel 250 363-6816  fax 250 363-6476