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Subject: 	Data submission from FAIRWEATHER for Chatham Strait
Date: 	Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:33:59 -0500
From: 	Ruby Becker <Ruby.Becker@noaa.gov>
To: 	NODC DataOfficer <NODC.DataOfficer@noaa.gov>


Tom,

Attached are 3 zip files and 1 separate file containing data from sound 
velocity casts acquired by the NOAA Ship FAIRWEATHER and its launches 
for their project in Chatham Strait.

1. FA_LAUNCH1_CTD_2008_2.zip contains 16 CTD files
2. FA_LAUNCH2_CTD_2008_2.zip contains 11 CTD files
3. FA_SVD_2008_2.zip contains 47 SVD files
4. 081681638.FAA (single CTD file)

Total: 75 files

The headers in all the files contain Project, Survey, Date, Time, 
Latitude, Longitude, and Instrument information.

For the CTD files:
Pressure and Temperature were obtained directly from a Sea-Bird 
Electronics 19Plus Seacat Profiler . Salinity was derived using 
Sea-Bird's software, SBEDataProcessing.  All  three variables have been 
averaged into depth bins and then fitted to  1-decibar intervals by 
means of parabolic fitting.

For the SVD files:
Depth and sound velocity down the water column were acquired using a 
Brooke-Ocean MVP Profiler.

The filenames for the files have format YYDDDHHMM.ssA or YYDDHHMM.ssD where:
YY = 2-digit year
DDD = day-of-year
HH = hour of the day (UTC)
MM =  minutes of the hour
ss indicates the vessel: FA for the ship, F1, F2 for launches 1010, 1018 
respectively.
A indicates that the archive is of type CTD
D indicates a sound velocity vs depth file archive file.

Please let me know if you have any questions.
Best regards,
Ruby