From View message header detail Ann.Thresher@csiro.au Sent Monday, April 14, 2008 0:41 am To boyer@nodc.noaa.gov Cc Melanie.Hamilton@noaa.gov Subject RE: RE: XBT/CTD comparison R/V Franklin 1999 (fwd) Hi, Tim, Finally got a chance to look into this. You have the French Astrolabe data because we run that line and Qc the data so it is part of our yearly data submission to NODC. But they rarely do ctds which is a shame. I've extracted all the Aurora data I have from 1993 and put it on our ftp site: ftp.marine.csiro.au login anonymous cd pub/gronell/dataexchange The file is auroradata1993.MA.gz Let me know if you need anything more of if this doesn't fit what you expect... Cheers, Ann. ************************************************************************ Dr. Ann Gronell Thresher Phone: (03) 62-325-419 Scientist-in-charge of Operations: (Int'l) (61-3) 62-325-419 Argo/SOOP Fax: (03) 62-325-123 CSIRO Division of Marine and Atmospheric Research (Int'l) (61-3) 62-325-123 GPO Box 1538 Hobart, TAS 7001 Email: Ann.Thresher@csiro.au Australia -----Original Message----- From: Tim Boyer [mailto:boyer@nodc.noaa.gov] Sent: Wednesday, 9 April 2008 3:13 AM To: Thresher, Ann (CMAR, Hobart) Cc: melanie.hamilton@noaa.gov Subject: Re: RE: XBT/CTD comparison R/V Franklin 1999 (fwd) Ann, Sorry, I am wrong again. The paper I cited used data from two ships, the Aurora Australis and the French ship Astrolabe. It is the French ship that drops XBTs on its resupply runs. We (NODC) have many of these data. So, of all the things I have asked you for, all that you may have that we do not are the Aurora Australis XBTs from April, 1993. If you have these, could you please send them to us. Thanks, Tim On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Tim Boyer wrote: > Melanie, > > Thank you. The Franklin XBTs I was looking for are contained > in the data you sent me. > > Ann, sorry to bother you about data you already sent. Hopefully, > we will reconcile the contents of WOD and GTSPP in the near future > and avoid such gaffes. > > With regards to the Aurora Australis XBT data, I would still like > the April, 1993 cruise data. Neither WOD nor GTSPP contain these > data. Further, I read a paper detailing the dropping of XBTs > during 13 crossings Tasmania-Antarctica during the Aurora > Australis' supply run to Antarctica 1991-1994. According to the > paper, the Aurora Australis routinely dropped XBTs on these > supply runs, so maybe there are data for other years. > We (NODC) do not have most of these data. If you have these data, > could you send them to us? The paper is: > > S. Rintoul et al. Seasonal evolution of upper ocean thermal > structure between Tasmania and Antarctica DSR 44, 1185-1202 > > Thanks, > Tim > > On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 Melanie.Hamilton@noaa.gov wrote: > >> >> Tim, >> I have done a bit more SQL to grab the database ID's so that I can >> run the retrievals by DBID instead of using the callsign. I have for you >> 2 files, one for the Franklin, year 1999 (342 XBT), and the 2nd is a file >> for the >> Aurora Australis, years 1991, 1992, 2001 ( 226 CTD and 17 XBT's). >> Melanie >> >> anemone_ > pwd >> /nodc/ftp/outgoing/Boyer >> -rwxrwxrwx 1 melanie ngtspp 2914464 Apr 8 00:26 >> boyer_australis_1991_2002.meds >> -rwxrwxrwx 1 melanie ngtspp 682 Apr 8 00:39 >> boyer_australis_1991_2002.sum >> -rwxrwxrwx 1 melanie ngtspp 9768877 Apr 8 00:33 >> boyer_FranklinXB_1999.meds >> -rwxrwxrwx 1 melanie ngtspp 650 Apr 8 00:34 >> boyer_FranklinXB_1999.sum >> >> >> File = boyer_australis_1991_2002.meds >> Date Range (mm-dd-yyyy) = 01-06-1991 to 02-13-2002 >> West Boundary Lon = 67.4908 (West Negative) >> East Boundary Lon = 139.9167 (West Negative) >> North Boundary Lat = -50.2678 >> South Boundary Lat = -68.9750 >> 243 Station records >> Counts of stations by data type: >> 226 CT >> 17 XB >> Counts of stations by TEMP / PSAL profile type: >> 0 Station records with neither TEMP nor PSAL profile >> 243 Station records with TEMP or PSAL profile >> Counts of profiles: >> 469 Profiles >> 0 Non-(TEMP, PSAL) Profiles >> Counts of Profiles by type: >> 226 PSAL >> 243 TEMP >> >> >> anemone_ > more boyer_FranklinXB_1999.sum >> Program ma_stats.pl v1.2 -- MEDS ASCII file statistics >> File = boyer_FranklinXB_1999.meds >> Date Range (mm-dd-yyyy) = 03-12-1999 to 09-25-1999 >> West Boundary Lon = 90.3000 (West Negative) >> East Boundary Lon = 177.1500 (West Negative) >> North Boundary Lat = 10.9333 >> South Boundary Lat = -29.7200 >> 342 Station records >> Counts of stations by data type: >> 342 XB >> Counts of stations by TEMP / PSAL profile type: >> 0 Station records with neither TEMP nor PSAL profile >> 342 Station records with TEMP or PSAL profile >> Counts of profiles: >> 342 Profiles >> 0 Non-(TEMP, PSAL) Profiles >> Counts of Profiles by type: >> 342 TEMP >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Tim Boyer >> Date: Monday, April 7, 2008 1:59 pm >> Subject: Re: RE: XBT/CTD comparison R/V Franklin 1999 (fwd) >> >>> Melanie, >>> >>> We do have 144 XBT profiles form the Aurora Australis in >>> 1993, but not for April. And not for any other years. >>> >>> For the R/V Franklin for 1999, we have 611 CTDs, but no >>> XBTs, and nothing from GTSPP. >>> >>> Tim