*****************************************************************
Journal for accession number: 0081186
Created on:                    2011-11-16 22:49:09 UTC
By:                            Mathew Biddle,National Oceanographic Data Center

Source: Original data was collected as part of the response to the MC252
         Deepwater Horizon oil spill event.  The data was provided to the
         Subsurface Monitoring Unit (SMU) in accordance with documentation
         provided by the SMU in "Guidance for Shipboard Data Management
         Coordinator".

Actions: The original data were copied into the data/0-data/ directory.

Files:
about/
This directory contains files generated by NODC with ancillary information
about the data submission.

DWH_GG_Cruise05.xml -
  Metadata record for the archived data, in Federal Geographic Data Committee
  (FGDC) Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (FGDC-STD-001-1998)
  XML format with remote sensing extensions.

GU_Cruise_05_manifest.xml -
  Lists the new files submitted by the data provider to NODC for the latest
  version along with the MD5 hash value for each file, to enable 
  validation of the content of the files.

0081186_lonlat.txt -
  Contains sample locations for these data.  Each row contains the
  geographical position where these data were collected (longitude in the 
  left column and latitude in the right column, both in degrees).  NODC may
  have corrected geographic positions that seemed to be in error when 
  generating this file. However, NODC did not change the original data files
  under the directory data/0-data/.

0081186_map.jpg -
  Sample location map for these data.

data/0-data/
This directory contains the data files as submitted to NOAA by various ships
in accordance with SMU Guidance.  Various levels of compliance with SMU guidance
were achieved, with increased compliance over time.  There is little or no
precise documentation as to shipboard processing steps.