preliminary data report
may 18, 1995

A.	Cruise Narrative
 
A.1 	Highlights

A.1.a	WOCE designation	PR17
A.1.b	EXPOCODE		49SU9107/2
A.1.c	Chief Scientist		Koichi Ishikawa
				Kobe Marine Observatory(KMO)

A.1.d	Ship: 		        R/V Shumpu Maru
A.1.e	Port of Call		Kagoshima to Kochi
A.1.f	Cruise Dates		July 18 to July 21, 1991


A.2	Cruise Summary

A.2.a	Geographic boundaries

A.2.b	Total number of stations occupied

A.2.c	Floats and drifters deployed

A.2.d	Moorings deployed or recovered


A.3 	List of Principal Investigators

           Table 1: Principal Investigators for All Measurements
	-------------------------------------------------------------
                    Name               Responsibility     Affiliation
                 Nobuo SATO           Oxygen, Nutrients       KMO
                 Koichi ISHIKAWA      CTD, S                  KMO
	-------------------------------------------------------------


A.4	Scientific Programme and Methods

The ship departed Kagoshima on July 18,1991, and made 6
CTD/rosette stations of a section PR17. 4 XBT stations were made
between CTD/rosette stations. To first CTD/rosette station the ship
reached at 1149 UTC on July 18, from last station departed at 1337
UTC on July 19.

The CTD is EG&G NBIS Mark III B(6500 db type,no oxygen sensor).
Water samples were collected from 1.7 liter Niskin bottles mounted on
the General Oceanics Rosette multisampler. However, surface water
samples were collected by a bucket.

A.5	Major Problems and Goals Not Achieved
A.6	Other incidents of Note
A.7	List of Cruise Participants
    
           		Table 2: Cruise Participants 
	---------------------------------------------------------------    
                Name               Responsibility     Affiliation
	---------------------------------------------------------------
               Koichi ISHIKAWA      Chief Scientist         KMO
                                      CTD Software
               Nobuo SATO           Oxygen, Nutrients       KMO
               Sukeyoshi TAKATANI   Watch Stander           KMO
               Ryohei OKADA         Watch Stander           KMO
               Yasuharu HATA        CTD Hardware            KMO
               Chiharu NAGAI        Watch Stander           KMO
               Atushi OBATA         Watch Stander           KMO
               Akiyoshi AWANO       Oxygen, Nutrients       KMO
               Hiroki SUZUKI        Oxygen, Nutrients       KMO
	--------------------------------------------------------------

B.	Underway Measurements

B.1	Navigation and bathymetry
B.2	Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP)
B.3	Thermosalinograph and underway dissolved oxygen, fluorometer, etc
B.4	XBT and XCTD
B.5	Meteorological observations
B.6	Atmospheric chemistry

C.	Hydrographic Measurements

The CTD is EG&G NBIS Mark III B(6500 db type, no oxygen
sensor).  A HP 9000 Series 300 model 330(Hewlett Packard) with a 4
MByte of memory was used as the primary data collection device.

The temperature and pressure sensor were calibrated at the
calibration facility of HAKUTO CO., LTD before the cruise. The
results are shown in Table 3.  However, no correction with these
results has been made because the correction method are not
established.

Table 3: The temperature and pressure sensor calibration constants
	Temperature

                 Time                 Bias         Slope
           -----------------------------------------------
           June 8(pre-cruise)      -0.0058077    0.9997071
           Pressure (increasing)
                 Time                 Bias         Slope
           June 9(pre-cruise)      -0.8717       1.000713
           Pressure (decreasing)
                 Time                 Bias         Slope
           June 9(pre-cruise)      -3.9656       1.001273
	   -----------------------------------------------
		
The conductivity sensor were calibrated at sea using data from the
analyses of salinity collected at 3 stations. The salinometer is
AUTOLAB model 1601 for the analyses of salinity of the water samples.
The results are shown in Table 4.

         Table 4: The conductivity sensor calibration constants
               ------------------------------------------------
		  Bias                Slope
                   0                1.00030
		-----------------------------------------------
Oxygen Measurements

The determination of dissolved oxygen was done by the
modified version of the Winkler method described in "Kaiyo Kansoku
Shishin (Manual of Oceanographic Observation)" published by the
Oceanographical Society of Japan(1970). The reagent blank was not
subtracted. No estimation of accuracy and precision has been done.

Nutrients Analyses

The nutrients analyses were done by the Technicon Auto Analyzer II
described in "Kaiyo Kansoku Shishin (Manual of Oceanographic
Observation)" published by the Oceanographical Society of
Japan(1970). No estimation of accuracy and precision has been done.

D.	Acknowledgments
E.	References

Unesco, 1983. International Oceanographic tables. Unesco Technical Papers in 
Marine Science, No. 44.

Unesco, 1991. Processing of Oceanographic Station Data, 1991. By JPOTS
editorial panel.

F.	WHPO Summary


Several data files are associated with this report.  They are the su9107.sum, 
su9107.hyd, su9107.csl and *.wct files.  The su9107.sum file contains a 
summary of the location, time, type of parameters sampled, and other pertient
information regarding each hydrographic station.  The su9107.hyd file contains 
the bottle data. The *.wct files are the ctd data for each station.  The *.wct 
files are zipped into one file called su9107.wct.zip. The su9107.csl file is a 
listing of ctd and calculated values at standard levels.

The following is a description of how the standard levels and
calculated values were derived for the su9107.csl file:

Salinity, Temperature and Pressure:  These three values were smoothed from
the individual CTD files over the N uniformly increasing pressure levels.
using the following binomial filter-

	t(j) = 0.25ti(j-1) + 0.5ti(j) + 0.25ti(j+1) j=2....N-1

When a pressure level is represented in the *.csl file that is not
contained within the ctd values, the value was linearly interpolated
to the desired level after applying the binomial filtering.   

Sigma-theta(SIG-TH:KG/M3), Sigma-2 (SIG-2: KG/M3), and Sigma-4(SIG-4:
KG/M3): These values are calculated using the practical salinity scale
(PSS-78) and the international equation of state for seawater (EOS-80)
as described in the Unesco publication 44 at reference pressures of the
surface for SIG-TH; 2000 dbars for Sigma-2; and 4000 dbars for Sigma-4.

Gradient Potential Temperature (GRD-PT: C/DB 10-3) is calculated as the
least squares slope between two levels, where the standard level is the
center of the interval.  The interval being the smallest of the two
differences between the standard level and the two closest values.
The slope is first determined using CTD temperature and then the
adiabatic lapse rate is subtracted to obtain the gradient potential
temperature.  Equations and Fortran routines are described in Unesco
publication 44.

Gradient Salinity (GRD-S: 1/DB 10-3) is calculated as the least squares
slope between two levels, where the standard level is the center of the
standard level and the two closes values.  Equations and Fortran
routines are described in Unesco publication 44.

Potential Vorticity (POT-V: 1/ms 10-11) is calculated as the vertical
component ignoring contributions due to relative vorticity, i.e.
pv=fN2/g, where f is the coriolius parameter, N is the bouyancy
frequency (data expressed as radius/sec), and g is the local
acceleration of gravity. 

Bouyancy Frequency (B-V: cph) is calculated using the adiabatic
leveling method, Fofonoff (1985) and Millard, Owens and Fofonoff
(1990).  Equations and Fortran routines are described in Unesco
publication 44.

Potential Energy (PE: J/M2: 10-5) and Dynamic Height (DYN-HT: M) are
calculated by integrating from 0 to the level of interest.  Equations and 
Fortran routines are described in Unesco publication, Processing of 
Oceanographic station data.

Neutral Density (GAMMA-N: KG/M3) is calculated with the program GAMMA-N
(Jackett and McDougall) version 1.3 Nov. 94.  


G.	Data Quality Evaulation