Data Submission Guide (replaces WHP 90-1)

Data Evaluation Reference

WOCE-era Manuals

(some of these are outdated; please see go-ship.org for new and updated manuals)

WHP 90-1: Requirements for WHP Data Reporting

Revision 2, May 1994

• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• Preface
• Chapter 1 : Overview of Reporting
• Chapter 2 : WHP Cruise Requirements
• Chapter 3 : Cruise Plan and Cruise Report
• Chapter 4 : Hydrographic Data Formats
• Chapter 5 : Underway Data Formats
• Appendix A : WOCE DACs, SACs, and the DIU
• Appendix B : Sample Cruise Plan
• Appendix C : Sample Cruise Report - .DOC Text File
• Appendix D : Reporting Protocol for Nonstandard Measurements
• Appendix E : Software Compatability
• Appendix F : ASCII Character Set
• Appendix G : Water Sample Parameters

WHP 91-1 : WOCE Operations Manual

• Cover Page
• Preface:(Saunders)
• Table of Contents
• History of Revisons
• Introduction to the Collection of Expert Reports Compiled for the WHP Programme
  (Joyce)

Calibrations and Standards

• Standards and Laboratory Calibration
  (Saunders, Mahrt, Williams)
• CFCs, 3He-tritium and Small Volume Radiocarbon
  (Bullister)

Methods for Water Sampling

• Salinity Measurements
  (Stalcup)
• Measuring Helium Isotopes and Tritium in Seawater Samples
  (Jenkins, Lott, Davis, Birdwhistell, Matthewson)
• CFC Data Processing Quality Control Steps
  (VanWoy, Salameh)
• A suggested Protocol for Continuous Flow Automated Analysis of Seawater Nutrients (Phosphate, Nitrate, Nitrite, and Silicic Acid) in the WOCE Hydrographic Program and the Joint Global Fluxes Study
  (Gordon, Jennings, Ross, Krest)
• Dissolved Oxygen
  (Culberson)
• Measuring 14C in Seawater {Sigma}C02 by Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
  (McNichol, Jones)
• Large Volume Sampling
  (Key)
• Radiocarbon
  (Key)
• Collection of 85Kr and 39Ar Samples
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  (Smethie)
• Determination of dissolved oxygen in sea water by Wilkler titration
  (Dickson)

Underway Measurements

• WHP Subgroup on Underway Measurements: Overview
  (Zenk)
• Acoustic Doppler Current Profiling Measurements and Navigation
  (Firing)
• Near-Surface Temperature, Salinity, and Bathymetry Measurements
  (Müller, Schenk)
• Meteorological Measurement from WOCE Research Ships
  (Taylor, Weller)

CTD Methods

• Introduction to Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Methods
  (Joyce)
• CTD Oxygen Calibration Procedure
  (Millard)
• Calculation of Physical Properties of Seawater
  (Fofonoff, Millard)
• Improving NBIS MK IIIB Measurements
  (Müller, Holfort, Delahoyde, Williams)

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