CLCPURPOSE.TXT (taken from CDROM:README_1st.htm) Dataset purpose: U.S. JGOFS Process Study CD-ROM Data Report, volume 1 (version 2) April 2003 The Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS), organized under the aegis of the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR), was a core project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP). U.S. JGOFS, a national component of JGOFS, included field studies conducted between 1989 and 1998 and brought together biological, chemical, physical and geological oceanographers and modelers in a multidisciplinary investigation of the pools and fluxes of carbon and associated biogenic elements in the ocean. The U.S. JGOFS research program comprised four basin-scale process studies, two long-term time-series programs, participation in a global survey of carbon dioxide (CO2) and a synthesis and modeling project. This CD-ROM dataset contains only the data acquired during the four U.S. JGOFS process studies, conducted in the North Atlantic, the equatorial Pacific, the Arabian Sea and the Southern Ocean. Cyndy Chandler Editor, U.S. JGOFS Final Data Report, volume 1 cchandler@whoi.edu (1) 508-289-2765