***************************************************************** Journal for accession number: 0063576 Created on: 2010-04-27 13:38:14 UTC By: Jonathan Blythe, Ph.D., National Oceanographic Data Center Source: Chris Lernihan from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution placed the file LineW_2005apr.tar.gz on the NODC ftp site on April 23rd, 2010. about/ This directory contains files generated by NODC with ancillary data about the data submission. 0-email.txt - Email text sent to the NODC Data Officer from Chris Lernihan stating the data was uploaded to the ftp site. 0063576_lonlat.txt - Each row contains the geographical location of a CTD cast from the Line W cruise. The geographical coordinates are reported to four significant decimal places in the decimal degrees format. These values were converted from the degrees, decimal minutes format from in the CTD cast summary file .sum in the 0-data directory (see below). 0063576_map.jpg - Image of CTD cast locations at a fine scale resolution, containing an inset image with the bounding box in the global context. data/0-data/ This directory contains files submitted to NODC by Chris Lernihan. The file LineW_2005apr.tar.gz was copied and unzipped to the 0-data file in NODC accession 0063576. Another file, 2005apr.whp_ctd.zip from the first file extraction, contained various ASCII files with the .ctd extension that were unzipped to the 0-data file. The .ctd extension indicates that the file contains a CTD profile. Bottle cast data are available in the file with the whp_btl extension. A summary of station data is in the .sum file. Files with the extensions .rtf, .txt, and .pdf have metadata and documentation for the Line W profile data submitted by the data provider.