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Subject: 	Submission of CTD and SVD data from the FAIRWEATHER - PWS P132
Date: 	Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:42:51 -0500
From: 	Ruby Becker <Ruby.Becker@noaa.gov>
To: 	Thomas Ryan <Thomas.Ryan@noaa.gov>


Tom,

Last submission today.

Attached are 4 zip files containing data from sound velocity casts 
acquired by the NOAA Ship FAIRWEATHER and its launches for their project 
PWS OPR-P132-FA-08

1. FA_LAUNCH1_CTD_2008_7.zip contains 17 CTD files
2. FA_LAUNCH2_CTD_2008_7.zip contains 4 CTD files
3. FA_CTD_2008_7.zip contains 4 CTD files
4. FA_SVD_2008_7.zip contains 292 SVD files

Total: 317 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.

Thanks,
Ruby