This is the standard bundle for National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) accession data. Each accession maintained by NODC is given a unique integer identifier known as an 'accession id'. All information related to that accession is contained within a directory using the accession id as the directory name. The accession directory has the following standard structure: : This directory NODC-Readme.txt: This file. about: Directory. Contains all accession related metadata including but not limited to the following two standard files. journal.txt: Text file. Contains any notes, correspondence etc. relating to this accession. .md5: Text file: contains MD5 checksums for all files in this accession except for the .md5 file itself. other metadata: ... data: Directory. All accession data is located in the 'data' directory. 0-data: Directory. Contains the originator's data unmodified from its intial digital format as submitted to NODC. The initial source for this data should be documented in the header of the: /about/journal.txt file after the keyword, 'Source'. 1-data: Optional directory. May contain processed version of originator's data from '0-data' directory. E.g. unzipped, uncompressed, untarred, or otherwise extracted or modified data. A note should be found in /about/journal.txt explaining how files in 1-data were derived from the files in 0-data. -data: Optional directories. Additional processed forms of originators data. Similar to 1-data above. For further information about this accession see: ./about/journal.txt Subject: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 16:07:07 -0700 (PDT) From: "Theodore D. Foster x22478" To: ricardo@nodc.noaa.gov, tfoster@ocean2.ucsd.edu ~1605, 10 September 2002 Dear Ricardo, I received two copies of your last e-mail so I guess the "ocean2" does work. Since I receive e-mail from all over the world and I have only informed a very few people of the troubles with "seadog", I told the computer "guru" to make the "seadog" address, but allow mail addressed to tfoster@ocean2.ucsd.edu to be received too -- I guess he did that so there is no reason to include both addresses. In answer to your queries: Ships: 1987 POLAR DUKE (most of crew and officers Canadians) 1991 POLAR DUKE (most of crew and officers Norwegians) 1992 NATHANIEL B. PALMER (maiden voyage Captain some friend of Edison Chouest without any experience in working in the ice, one reasonably competent mate plus two others, and mostly Filipinos for crew. An excellent group from ASA and a Captain-in-training, who now is usually the Captain (all the Chief Scientists complained about the original "Captain" so I guess ASA replaced him). 1995 NATHANIEL B. PALMER (this time the Captain was truely outstanding -- very experienced and cooperative, but the ASA party was very poor except for one of the computer people. CTD: 1987, 1991 and 1992 Neil Brown Mark 3B (CTD #2) 1995 We used the Neil Brown designed similar to Neil Brown Mark 3B (but fabricated at Scripps) for the first 38 CTD stations but I believe CTD stations 36, 37 and 38 are so eratic to be almost worthless -- they were corrected by me by spending several weeks to be of somewhat useful. The stations 39 and higher used the same Neil Brown Mark 3B as in 1987, 1991 and 1992 (The SIO Shipboard Technical Support group maintains my two CTDs, but thought the much older CTD was somewhat better so mistakenly I took their advice and used the older CTD #1). Temperature Scale: The CTDs are always checked against reversing thermometers that are carefully calibrated with a very special range: -2.0 to +2.0 degrees Celsius, and by the Technical Support group before and after each cruise. I imagine that the temperature scales they use are the latest at the time, but since the accuracy is probably less than +/- 0.005 C does it really matter? Project Names: 1987: Weddell Sea Oceanographic Expedition 1987 1991: Weddell Sea Oceanographic Expedition 1991 1992: Weddell Sea Oceanographic Expedition 1992 1995: Wilkes Land Oceanographic Expedition 1995 These project names are not OFFICIAL, but ones we used to label our data etc. I expect to be in my office ~0800 to ~1030 and then ~1130 to ~1700 (PDT) so if you have any more questions please let me know. I just talked with the woman at the Scripps Oceanographic Data Facility, and she said she is so busy now it might take her up to a month to get the bottle data of these expeditions. Best wishes, Ted P.S. I am flying back east to attend a "Family Gathering" in Belmar, New Jersey and expect to be away 17 through 23 September. Subject: THE DATA HAVE BEEN SENT Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 10:39:07 -0700 (PDT) From: "Theodore D. Foster x22478" To: Ricardo.Locarnini@noaa.gov, tfoster@ocean2.ucsd.edu ~1035, 10 September 2002 Dear Ricardo, I just "ftped" the four tarred and compressed data files for 1987, 1991, 1992, and 1995 Southern Ocean expeditions to ftp.nodc.noaa.gov as you instructed using bin. I also included the directories for each using ascii. I called Scripps Oceanographic Data Facility several times last week with no luck, but I finally tried to call one of the technicians who had been on most of these expeditions and although he did not answer the telephone another technician told me he would get the woman who was in charge of the ODF. She told me she was quite busy so she had never returned any of my previous calls, but she "thought" she still had the bottle data results and would call me back. I am hoping she does have them, as I have moved so many times I am sure I saved the paper copies, but where in the vast number of cartons I have them I do not remember. Perhaps, I will call her again -- that might be much faster. I am still having much trouble with my e-mail on my computer ever since the old Sun 20 (seadog) was turned off and I now receive e-mail on my newest Sun Ultra 5 (ocean2). My e-mail address remains: tfoster@seadog.ucsd.edu though I think my computer "guru" set it up so that I can also receive e-mail with the address: tfoster@ocean2.ucsd.edu but I am not sure though I know e-mail to tfoster@ucsd.edu probably is returned to the sender. Oh well, I think that although I am a Professor Emeritus from the University of California, Santa Cruz the University of California, San Diego does not recognize that campus so I have only limited privileges here. Best wishes, Ted Subject: MY EXTREMELY POOR MEMORY Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:34:20 -0700 (PDT) From: "Theodore D. Foster x22478" To: ricardo@nodc.noaa.gov, tfoster@ocean2.ucsd.edu ~1335 (PDT), 3 September 2002 Dear Ricardo, Professor Munk called me about a ten days ago to tell me that Dr Levitus had sent him a message (back on 3 July 2002!) asking him to contact me about several sets of data from my expeditions to the Antarctic Ocean that I had not yet sent NODC. Unfortunately, the computer that I use for e-mail had just failed so I could not do anything about his request until today. All my CTD dasta are stored on different computer than the one that failed (I think for good, but I may never find out as it is expensive to repair computers these days, and I no longer have a grant to pay for the repairs). I am afraid that without someone to help me remember things I almost always forget. I do indeed have four more sets of CTD data from expeditions I made to Antarctic waters in 1987, 1991, 1992 and 1995. The first three were to the Weddell Sea while the 1995 one was to the region just off the coast of Wilkes Land (the same region as my 1985 expedition). Unfortunately, with several computer failures and moves, I do not even remember where the bottle data for these expeditions are. The people at Lamont-Doherty sent someone to do their chemical sampling along on the 1991, 1992 and 1995 expeditions (I think). The people to contact there are Professor Peter Schlosser, Dr Smethie and Dr Takahashi. It has been so long since I last visited Lamont-Doherty that I am not too sure about exactly what their sampling was for or if they have even been able to analyze the samples. Dr Takahashi's sampling was for carbon dioxide, and I think he has analyzed the samples and perhaps even written a paper or two. The best person to contact would be Dr Smethie; however, the Scripps Oceanographic Data Facility here did all the work on analyzing seawater samples for salinity, oxygen and nutrients. They sent me a copy of all their results each year, but it will take me quite a bit of time to locate those data -- it might be faster (and less time consuming for me) if I just called them to see if they saved those results. In any event, I do have all the CTD data -- except oxygen on the 1987, 1991 and 1992 expeditions though I "think" we did have those data on the 1992 expedition. The CTD data are all stored in the same format as the 1985 data that I sent you last year (in August maybe). The position for the oxygen CTD data is blank on the 1987, 1991 and 1992 expedition sets. Please let me know exactly where and how I can send these data to you. Best regards, Ted Foster