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