A.   Cruise Narrative PR4, PR2

A.1  Highlights

                     WHP Cruise Summary Information

         WOCE section designation  PR4, PR2  
Expedition designation (EXPOCODE)  49RY9206_1
                                   49RY9206_2
                                   49RY9206_3
                  Chief Scientist  Jun'ichi Oyama,
                                   Japan Meteorological Agency,
                                   1-3-4, Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku,
                                   Tokyo 100, Japan 
                             Ship  R/V Ryofu Maru
                    Ports of call  Leg 1:  Tokyo, Japan to Rabaul, Papua New Guinea
                                   Leg 2: Rabaul, Papua New Guinea to Cebu, Republic of the Philippines
                                   Leg 3: Cebu, Republic of the Philippines to Tokyo, Japan
                     Cruise dates  Leg 1: June 9, 1992 to June 25, 1992
                                   Leg 2: June 28, 1992 to July 11, 1992
                                   Leg 3: July 16, 1992 to July 29, 1992
               Number of stations  27
                                                 29° 59.89' N
            Geographic boundaries  154° 54.02' E              155° 15.13' W
                                                   4° 0.61' S
     Floats and drifters deployed  0
   Moorings deployed or recovered  0


A.2  Cruise Summary Information

Stations occupied

Observations of PR4 were carried out as part of the R/V Ryofu Maru cruise 
RY9206 Leg 1, and those of PR2 were Leg 2 and Leg 3.

Number of Stations

A total of 27 CTD/rosette stations for PR4 and 33 stations for PR2 was occupied 
using a General Oceanics 12 bottle rosette equipped with 12 1.7-liter Niskin 
water sample bottles, and an NBIS MK III B CTD. No additional sensors were used 
with the CTD system.

Sampling

The following water sample measurements were made: salinity, oxygen, nitrate, 
nitrite and phosphate on all stations. The depths sampled were: 10, 25, 50, 75, 
100, 125, 150, 175, 200, 250, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900, 1000, 1250, 
1500, 2000, 2500, 3000, 4000 in meters at every 5 degrees in latitude. On other 
stations, water samples were taken at shallower depths than 1250m. Surface 
water samples were collected by a bucket at every station.


A.3  List of Principal Investigators

The principal investigators responsible for each parameter measured on the 
cruise are listed in Table 1. (All the correspondence on these data should be 
addressed to the Director of the Oceanographical Division, Marine Department, 
Japan Meteorological Agency.)


                     Name        Responsibility  Affiliation
                     -----------------------------------------
                     I. Kaneko   CTD, S          JMA/MD
                     K. Fushimi  O2, Nutrients   JMA/MD

                     JMA/MD  Marine Department, Japan Meteorological Agency


A.4  Scientific Programme and Methods

A.5  Major Problems and Goals not Achieved

A.6  Other Incidents of Note

A.7  List of Cruise Participants


Date      Contact         Data Type     Data Status Summary
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09/29/99  Buck            CTD/BTL/SUM   Website Updated  Online/Encrypted Ran
          sumchk, ok.  WOCECVT ok.
          Created:  July 14, 1999 by Kevin
          ExpoCode:  49RY9206/1
          Dir:  /home/whpo/sdiggs/WHPO/WHOI/DATA/P_RPT/pr04/9206/
          Files in this directory:
          a.  9206l1.sea
          b.  9206l1.sum
          a.  9206l1.sea -
          Observations were made from the .sea file since there was no .hy2 file
          to use.

          S/02      Y
          NUTS      Y
          CFCs      N
          He/Tr     N
          C-14      N


          b.  9206l1.sum -
          Sumfile for 49RY9206/1

08/04/00  Saiki           CTD/BTL       Data are Public  I am pleased to inform  
          you that the PIs and participants of the one-time and repeat cruises 
          conducted by the Japan Meteorological Agency's vessels agreed to 
          change most of the data status to public.

08/15/00  Bartolacci      CTD/BTL       Website Updated data decrypted	As per 
          Masaro Saiki the bottle and CTD files for these cruises have been 
          unencrypted and made public. All index files have been updated to 
          reflect this change.

11/27/00  Uribe           DOC           Submitted 2000.11.27 KJU File contained 
          here is a CRUISE SUMMARY and NOT sumfile. Documentation is online.

          2000.10.11 KJU
          Files were found in incoming directory under whp_reports. This 
          directory was zipped, files were separated and placed under proper 
          cruise. All of them are sum files.
          Received 1997 August 15th.

04/13/01  Uribe           BTL           Website Updated  CSV File Added  Bottle 
          carriage returns were fixed.  Bottle file was converted into Exchange 
          format.  Website now contains a link to the CSV file.

11/09/01  Uribe           CTD           Website Updated  New CSV file added CTD 
          data has been converted to exchange format using the new WHPO code. 
          Old file has been put inside the original directory and new file has 
          been put online.




