From:   smecking@whoi.edu
Subject: Re: North Pacific workshop Working Group 2
Date: April 21, 2004 5:39:09 AM EDT
To:   key@Princeton.EDU
Cc:   emerson@u.washington.edu, ngruber@igpp.ucla.edu, richard.a.feely@noaa.gov

Bob,

Attached are the data for STUD97 (oxygen, nutrients & CFCs) and Fiona. 
In both cases oxygen and nutrient units are converted to umol/kg. CFCs 
for STTUD97 are in pmol/kg and are on the 1993 calibration scale. 
Missing data is marked by -99.00. Lat, lon, and date of stations are 
included in decimal format.

The data files are in similar format as the WOCE .sea files. For STDU97, 
I included  quality flags for some of the columns (underlined with 
'****') using the WOCE flags (2=good, 3=questionable, 4=bad, 
6=duplicate, 9=missing). If "DEPTH" is flagged that means the whole 
bottle seems bad, possibly because it was fired at the wrong depth.  The 
quality control was done by Steve Emerson&co for T, S, oxygen, and 
nurtrients. I did the CFCs, but also added some flags to Steve's data 
when it became obvious that there was a mistake while working with the 
data. If you prefer, I could also send you the data  with questionable 
and bad data already substituted by -99 so you don't have to deal with 
the flags. I recommend using "CTDSAL" rather than "SALNTY" for this cruise.

For Fiona, I don't have any quality flags. This cruise quite often has 
multiple stations at the same location. For contouring, I pick out the 
deep stations which are stations 2, 12, 18, 26, 55, 79, 86, 90, 94, 98, 
102, and 104.

Hope this is useful. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Cheers, Sabine