Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:51:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tim Boyer <boyer@nodc.noaa.gov>
To: Krystyna Jankowska <krystyna@metoc.gov.au>
Cc: melanie.hamilton@noaa.gov
Subject: Re: Royal Australian Navy 2004 XBT data
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Krystyna,

   Thanks for your reply.  One last question.  There are two
   T-7 XBT profiles in the data you sent.  Do you have a depth equation
   for these data?

Thanks,
Tim

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Krystyna Jankowska wrote:

> Hi Tim,
>
> Probe type/Manufacturer/Fall rate co-efficients A,B
>
> T-4              Sippican    6.691,-0.00225
> T-5              Sippican    6.828,-0.00182
> T-10            Sippican    6.301,-0.00216
> Deep Blue    Sippican    6.472,-0.00216
>
> To calculate depth the RAN use formula Z=At+Bt2 where Bt2 = Bt square
>
> I hope this answer your question.
>
> Regards,
> Krystyna
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Boyer" <boyer@nodc.noaa.gov>
> To: "Krystyna Jankowska" <krystyna@metoc.gov.au>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 6:49 AM
> Subject: Re: Royal Australian Navy 2004 XBT data
>
>
>> Krystyna,
>>
>>    Thank you for your answers.  I have one more question.
>>    Do you know what drop rate equation was used to calculate
>>    the depths in these XBT drops?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tim
>>
>> On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Krystyna Jankowska wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Tim,
>>>
>>> I was out of office and could not get back to you sooner. I apologize
> for
>>> the inconvenience.
>>>
>>> The problems you have noticed can be managed as follows:
>>>
>>> 1.    The file 04009LE and data in it  is corrupted and should be
> rejected.
>>>
>>> 2.    The date in file 04025LE should be DDMMYYYY. Could you please
> correct
>>> it for this cruise and I fix it in our database. This is our converter
> issue
>>> as data from this ship is coming in non-conventional format. I will fix
> the
>>> problem for the future.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Krystyna
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Tim Boyer" <boyer@nodc.noaa.gov>
>>> To: <krystyna@metoc.gov.au>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 6:33 AM
>>> Subject: Royal Australian Navy 2004 XBT data
>>>
>>>
>>>> Krystyna,
>>>>
>>>>    I am working on converting the Royal Australian Navy 2004
>>>>    XBT data you sent to the U.S. NODC around June 1 into the
>>>>    format used in the World Ocean Database.
>>>>
>>>>    Most of the data looks fine, excepting two problems.
>>>>
>>>>   1. files 04025LE and 04009LE contain the same data.  The
>>>>      only difference is 04009LE does not list any cruise
>>>>      identifier in the header.  Is there data from cruise 04009LE
>>>>      which should replace this duplicated data?
>>>>
>>>>   2. In both files 04025LE and 04009LE the date does not fit
>>>>      the pattern of the other files you sent.  While the other
>>>>      files list the date with 8 bytes as DDMMYYYY, the above files list
>>> the
>>>>      date with only 5 bytes.  The form of the dates in the above
>>>>      files appears to be DDMMY, where Y is only the last digit of
>>>>      the year.  Can you confirm this?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for sending the data.
>>>>
>>>> Tim Boyer
>>>> boyer@nodc.noaa.gov
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>