A.   CRUISE NARRATIVE: P02C

A.1. HIGHLIGHTS
                       WHP CRUISE SUMMARY INFORMATION

         WOCE section designation  P02C
Expedition designation (EXPOCODE)  49EWBO9401_1
      Chief Scientist/affiliation  Masao Fukasawa/JAMSTEC*
                            Dates  1994.JAN.15 - 1994.FEB.04
                             Ship  R/V BOSEI MARU NO. 2
                    Ports of call  Shimizu, Japan to Shimizu, Japan

                                                29 58.98'N
            Geographic boundaries  142 10.02'E             154 10.9714'W
                                                29 58.98'N
               Number of stations  21
     Floats and drifters deployed  unknown
   Moorings deployed or recovered  unknown

            Contributing Authors:  Masao Fukasawa 

*Chief Scientist ~  Senior Scientist ~  Tokai University ~  Ocean Research Dept. 
  Faculty Of Marine Science & Technology ~ 2-15 Natsushima, Yokosuka Kanagawa 
        237-0061 ~ Japan ~ Phone: 81-468-67-3431 ~  Fax: 81-468-65-3202
                           Email: fksw@jamstec.go.jp


A.2. CRUISE SUMMARY

P02 was composed of four different cruises which were carried out during the 
period from October 14, 1993 to November 14, 1994 utilizing three different 
observation ships. No large volume sampling was carried out. Most of the 
observation line is located on 30N. But west of 134.5 E, the line goes 
northwest toward Cape Ashizuri along the PCM5 line. Also, east of 123W the line 
bends northeast to avoid Mexican territory.

Two of the four cruise were intended to get high-quality CTD data on high 
density observation stations.  For example, the shortest interval between 
stations is 30 nautical miles around some topographic features, with small 
volume water sampling for nutrient analysis (Salinity, Dissolved oxygen, 
Silicate, Phosphate, Nitrate, [Nitrite] and pH). These two cruises compose the 
central and eastern part of P02, and the western most part of P02, respectively. 
The first cruise began on 14 October 1993 and the latter began on the 15th 
of January, 1994. The third cruise was to get nutrient and chemical 
tracers data (Freon, Total Carbon, Tritium, Radioactive carbon/sampling only, 
pC02) mainly at 32 depths with CTD-ROSSETE 101 system. This cruise started on 
the 7th January, 1994.  The fourth and final cruise, which measured ctd data as 
well as discreet salinity and oxygen data, began on November 1, 1994.

Standards for nutrient is controlled by PIs among these three cruises. Standards 
used for these cruise were re-standardized at Scripps institution of 
Oceanography in the course of first cruise.


A.3. LIST OF PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS

                      |Principal        |
Parameter             |Investigator(s)  |Affiliation
----------------------|-----------------|------------------------------------------------
CTD02/rosette         |Masao Fukasawa   |School of Marine Science, Tokai University
                      |Ichiro Yasuda    |Tohoku Regional Fisheries Research Laboratory
                      |Hiroyuki Yoritaka|Hydrographic Department, MSA
T,S                   |Hiroyuki Yoritaka|Hydrographic Department, MSA
02                    |Yoshihisa Kato   |School of Marine Science, Tokai University
                      |Katsumi Yokouchi |Tohoku Regional Fisheries Research Laboratory
N03, NO2, NH4         |Hiromi Kasai     |Hokkaido Regional Fisheries Research Laboratory
P04, SiO2             |Chizuru Saito    |National Institute for Environmental Studies
3H, 14C, CFC         |Yutaka Watanabe  |National Institute for Resources and Environment
Sig.C02/pH/Alkali/pCO2|Tsuneo Ono       |Faculty of Fisheries, Hokkaido University
T (underway), ADCP    |Ichiro Yasuda    |Tohoku Regional Fisheries Research Laboratory
S (underway)          |Masao Fukasawa   |School of Marine Science, Tokai University
XBT                   |Hiroyuki Yoritaka|Hydrographic Department, MSA
Moorings              |Masao Fukasawa   |School of Marine Science, Tokai University
Surface Drifters      |Yutaka Michida   |Hydrographic Department, MSA


A.4. SCIENTIFIC GOALS

To get reliable dataset to estimate meridional transport of physical and 
chemical mass across  30N. Especially, at relatively shallow depths, the zonal 
transport of total carbon and CFCs included in NPIW-corresponding layer and 
NPSTMW are object to be estimated. Also heat and fresh water (and/or salinity) 
fluxes across 30N are subject to be estimated.

From 1991, WOCE-like observation programmes have been carried out along 32.5 N 
by the Hydrographic Department, Maritime Safety Agency and School of Marine 
Science, Tokai University. In these programmes current variations were checked 
by current meter moorings around the Shatsky Rise. Also, nutrient variations 
were examined through 5 different cruises. Results from these programmes show 
that eddies which are associated with the Shatsky Rise give so large effects on 
oceanic conditions around the region. The variation of nutrient profiles excess 
20% of their mean structure at the intermediate depth in magnitude.

In P02 cross section, we encounter three large topographic features, the Shatsky 
Rise, the Emperor Seamount and the Hess Rise. As explained in foregoing section, 
same P02 line will be repeated twice within three months. This strategy of 
operation will help us to know some standard errors in estimated fluxes through 
information about time-dependent oceanic structures.


A.5 WATER SAMPLING EQUIPMENT AND UNDERWAY MEASUREMENTS

    Small Volume Sampling: 24-place rosettes with 2.5-liter bottles.
    Large Volume Sampling: None
    CTD System:            SeaBird SBE9/11, with 02 sensor and altimeter
    Salinometer:           Guildline Autosals.
    Nutrient Analysis:     T-800
    Oxygen Analysis:       Carpenter method (automatic titration)
    Underway Sampling:     75 kHz ADCP manufactured by SunWest


A.6. CRUISE TRACK AND STATIONS

Station positions are shown on Figure 1 (PDF cruise report), where solid circles 
show stations for small volume sampling (Kaiyo-Maru). Stations are fundamentally 
spaced at 30 nm interval, and spaced at 48 nm interval over flat bottom region, 
along 30N. In western boundary, stations are spaced at 10-15 nm interval along 
PCM5 line. In eastern boundary, stations are spaced at 28 nm interval. Small 
volume sampling (CFCs, Tritium, Radioactive Carbon) were be carried out every 2 
or 3 stations (at 60-96 nm interval).


A.7 CRUISE PARTICIPANTS

    Masao Fukasawa                      Chief Scientist
    Oyaidu Masahisa      Tokai Univ.    CTDO, T, S, 02, PO4, SiO3, NO3
    Ken-ichi Amaike      Tokai Univ.    CTDO, T, S, 02, PO4, SiO3, NO3
    ????                 Tokai Univ.    CTDO, T, S, 02, PO4, SiO3, NO3
    ????                 Tokai Univ.    CTDO, T, S, 02, PO4, SiO3, NO3
    ????                 Tokai Univ.    CTDO, T, S, 02, PO4, SiO3, NO3
    ????                 Tokai Univ.    CTDO, T, S, 02, PO4, SiO3, NO3
    
    
B. UNDERWAY MEASUREMENTS
   1) Navigation
   2) Bathymetry
   3) Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP)
   4) Thermosalinograph and related measurements
   5) XBT and/or XCTD
   6) Meteorological observations
   7) Atmospheric chemistry data

   (no data)


C.3 HYDROGRAPHIC MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES AND CALIBRATIONS

C.3.1 SAMPLE SALINITY MEASUREMENTS.

On T/V Bosei Maru cruise 9401, the salinity analysis of sampled water was 
carried out using an IOS DL Guildline Autosal salinometer model 8400B. In the 
room where the Autosal was placed, room temperature was controlled rather well 
but it changed within the range of 21 to 23C. The sub-standard sample was 
prepared in two Cuby Tainer's (flexible vinyl container) which were placed near 
to the Autosal.  The lot number of the Standard which we used was P121.  Of 
other lots of Standard we kept, we decided to use P121 because of its nearest 
value to 2.00000 and the amount of number of samples. Sea water was sampled in 
350ml glass bottle with a rubber cap. Before the measurement it was placed near 
to the Autosal with the sub standard sample. The intake of sample water into the 
conductivity cell was controlled by a peripheral pump between the sample bottle 
and Autosal.  Autosal was standardized using the Standard. The standardization 
process was composed of the first standardization and the second confirmation.  
The first standardization was carried out following the Autosal manual.  The 
second confirmation was introduced after a test measurement of the sub- standard 
sample. At each chance of the standardization, the first standardization was 
reconfirmed by the second confirmation. Samples which were taken at a station 
ware measured consequently. It took about 1 hour to complete the measurement for 
sampled of one station. Sub-standard samples were also measured both before and 
after the consequent measurement of samples to check the machine drift. In 
present cruise, the drift was 0.003 at maximum. The largest maximum of drift was 
brought by a fine bubbles trapped by the leftmost anode before the measurement 
for samples of station 16 started.  Sensor was replaced and the standardization 
was carried out to recover the status of Autosal.  Through out the cruise, 
Autosal performed very well. Nevertheless, rather many reading were regarded as 
erroneous ones. It is because there were bottle-leaks (supplemental nutrient 
analysis also showed the existence of the leakage) especially for samples of 
stations which were occupied during rough sea state. There were 66 pairs of 
replicate (i.e. from the same rosette bottle) samples. The standard deviation of 
the groups of sample pairs was 0.000846.


C.3.2 CTD MEASUREMENTS GANTRY AND WINCH ARRANGEMENTS

The gantry of T/V Bosei Maru consists of a gallows and CTD fixing equipment 
which can be retrieve in a house where a water sampling and a preparation for 
CTD casting are carried out. The gallows was powered by electric oil pressure 
pump and was operated to hang CTD out of and into the ship. Every time after the 
CTD operation the CTD package is come into the CTD room and water samples are 
drawn out from Niskin bottles.

The winch system is driven by oil-pressure. Winch operation room is located 
above the boat deck from where the whole out-door CTD operation can be looked 
down. The wire tension, the wire length and the pressure from CTD is monitored 
both in the winch room and in a CTD operation room.  During the cruise, the 
weather was always severe because of big lows passed 500km west of the 
observation region. Thus the wire speed was always slow to give an enough 
tension to the wire. But at the first station when CTD was retrieved, we found 
that CTD/Niskin under water unit was heavily entwined by CTD cable. Two bottles 
and four SiS thermometers were lost. More weights were added to the steel frame 
which encloses CTD and Niskin bottles to prevent the under water unit from such 
a case mentioned above, nevertheless we had to experience almost the same 
accident twice. The most serious problem was the fact that CTD cable longer than 
200m had to be given up. Both a slow speed winch operation and a shortage of the 
CTD wire under a very rough sea condition made it impossible to lower CTD down 
to the bottom.

EQUIPMENT, CALIBRATIONS AND STANDARDS

1. Sea Bird 9/11 plus system with the oxygen sensor.
2. General Oceanics 5 liter 24 bottle rosette which was operated with 23 bottles 
   in this cruise.
3. Four bottles were equipped with SiS thermometers and pressure gauges.

Backup equipment consisted of spare CTD-DO, Temperature, Conductivity sensors 
and three Niskin bottles.

The shipboard equipment consisted of an integral systems for an acquisition of 
CTD data as well as the Rosette firing. Demodulated signal which can be drawn 
out from the system could be back up by DAT recorder. Each system included the 
following major units:

1. Sea Bird 11/plus demodulator deck unit data terminal.
2. Pro-side 486D2 system which is compatible with IBM/DOS machine.
3. SONY DAT recorder.

Laboratory calibrations of the Sea Bird 9 temperature, conductivity and 
Dissolved oxygen sensors were carried out at Pacific Center of Sea Bird Inc. 
before (24 Jul. 93) and after (17 Mar 94) the Bosei-P2C cruise.  The serial 
numbers of the temperature sensor and the conductivity sensor were 1028 and 695, 
respectively Temperature calibration results are tabulated in table C-3-6-1. In 
this table, even at the time of the post cruise calibration, the set of 
coefficients for frequency conversion which were decided at the time of the pre 
cruise calibration gave a good result.  The changes in coefficients between at 
the times of the pre and the post cruise calibration (not shown here) was safely 
negligible over the whole temperature range as long as the WOCE criterion 
concerns. (see the column of Diff*1)

TABLE C-3-1. RESULTS OF TEMPERATURE CALIBRATIONS 

        pre-cruise
        Bath Temp.   Freq.    Temp.*1     Res.*1   Temp.*2   Diff.*2
          (C)       (Hz)      (C)        (C)     (C)      (C)
        ------------------------------------------------------------
        -1.4892     5732.81   -1.4893   -0.00014   -1.4881   0.0012
         1.0185     6062.21    1.0187    0.00015    1.0200   0.0014
         4.5056     6542.60    4.5058    0.00018    4.5073   0.0016
         8.1009     7065.78    8.1008   -0.00013    8.1024   0.0017
        11.5268     7591.41   11.5267   -0.00010   11.5284   0.0017
        15.0811     8165.31   15.0810   -0.00011   15.0827   0.0017
        18.5802     8759.38   18.5803    0.00006   18.5820   0.0017
        22.0742     9381.94   22.0744    0.00016   22.0761   0.0017
        25.6319    10046.56   25.6320    0.00012   25.6337   0.0017
        29.0393    10712.64   29.0391   -0.00021   29.0408   0.0017
        32.5702    11434.07   32.5704    0.00017   32.5721   0.0017***
        
Temp*1  Instrument temperature converted from the instrument frequency using 
        new coefficients decided at the post cruise calibration.  
Temp*2  Instrument temperature converted from the instrument frequency using 
        old coefficients decided at the pre cruise calibration.  
Res.*1  The residual computed using Temp*1 
Diff*1  Difference between Temp*1 and Temp*2

As for the conductivity sensor, the result of calibration shows that a set of 
coefficient for the conversion from the frequency to the conductivity decided at 
the time of the post cruise calibration was much different from that decided at 
the time of pre cruise calibration. The difference of 0.001 Siemens/m was common 
over the conductivity rage from 3 to 5 Siemens/m with a tendency that the old 
coefficients gave a lower conductivity value.

EQUIPMENT PERFORMANCE 

GENERAL 
As mentioned before, most problems arose always at the CTD-Rosette lowering 
operation. Rosette operation (firing) was carried out reliably, but some bottle-
leaks were found at almost every station. The bottle-leaks were detected not for 
specific bottles. The reason for the leak may be attributable to an unimaginably 
hard movement of the under water assembly.  The rolling angle of the ship 
reached 30 degrees sometimes. The under water unit seemed to encounter so large 
fluctuation of the lowering speed. Or the CTD cable might hit the under water 
unit.

CTD 
CTD performance was very good through the cruise. We calibrated the salinity 
values through the comparison with water sampled data.  We tried to compared the 
CTD data with historical data of P3 and 35N CTD data because there was no cross-
data point with a historical high quality observation.  As a results our data 
did not show any inconsistency with them at least at depths deeper than 3500m. 
On the other hand, an inter comparison of our CTD data with Kaiyo-Maru P2 cruise 
showed some systematic discrepancy.  As for this inter comparison, we are 
preparing an another short report specially.

24-BOTTLE ROSETTE SYSTEM 
If we focus our attention on the rosette system only, it performed very well 
without any misfiring. But as mentioned earlier, bottle leaks occurred 
frequently.


C.3.3 CTD DATA COLLECTION AND PROCESSING

DATA CAPTURE AND REPORTING 
Full CTD data with 24 per second are stored in a PC and are processed with a CTD 
processing software provided by Sea Bird Inc. (Sea Soft ver.4.03) The procedure 
followed the instruction prepared by Sea Bird Inc. exactly but the data sampled 
at slower lowering speed than 0.4m/sec are rejected.  Physical and chemical 
values of the pressure, the temperature, the conductivity and the dissolved 
oxygen are stored after a pressure average by 1db pitch.

TEMPERATURE CALIBRATION 
As mentioned in the performance section, the temperature out put from Sea Soft 
is considered to satisfy the WHP criterion without any calibration.  The time 
drift of the temperature sensor was detected as small as about 0.0017C between 
at the time of the post cruise calibration and at the time of pre cruise 
calibration. We did not take any assumption concerning the details of the time 
drift although some improvement might be expected. It may be notable here that 
our basic opinion toward the calibration was "we should not assume anything more 
than the simple statistical theories".

PRESSURE CALIBRATION 
We did not apply a laboratory calibration for the pressure sensor. Instead, SiS 
pressure gauges which used in the Rosette system were used as a simple in situ 
calibration facility. Two SiS pressure gauges had been  calibrated by SiS in 
October 1993 and other two SiS pressure gauges by National Institute of 
Measuring Japan in May and July 1993.  As long as our in situ calibration 
concerns, there was no problem for the CTD pressure sensor, as was told by 
Pacific Center. It should be noted here that the air pressure which was measured 
by CTD in the air was taken into account when the salinity was calculated by the 
CTD processing software, Sea Soft.

SALINITY CALIBRATION 
Salinity was calibrated  by comparison with sample salinity. The laboratory 
calibration of the conductivity sensor showed that about 0.01 psu lower salinity 
was computed when the old set of conversion coefficient were used. It turned out 
to be the present case. Our calibration method uses sample salinity values and 
CTD salinity values (out put of the software Sea Soft) directly. The difference 
between the CTD values and the sample values was regarded as a function of the 
pressure. Then a cubic pressure function was fitted to the difference through 
the least-square method using a weight function of; w(p)=0.5+ P/2000 P denotes 
the pressure at which the sample was taken. The reason why we use the cubic 
function came from facts; (1) there is a marked inter mediate salinity minimum 
in the subtropical North Pacific although no marked structure exist at deeper 
depths. (2) our CTD/Rosette system is equipped with Niskin bottles 1m higher 
than the water intake tube of the conductivity sensor. (3) when the water was 
sampled, the under water unit had an upward velocity. (2) and (3) may produce a 
cubic distribution of systematic differences between the CTD salinity and the 
sample salinity under the situation of (1), and the use of a cubic function will 
prevent the calibrated salinity from having an artificial component in the 
vertical structure. As a results, at depths deeper than 2500m, rms residuals 
lower than 0.0015 was achieved at every station. On the other hands, rms 
residuals lower than 0.0022 and 0.01 were derived at depths between 1000m and 
2500m and at depths shallower than 1000m, respectively at every station. Thus, 
the cubic error function was decided at each station and applied to the salinity 
output from the software, Sea Soft to make up the final CTD salinity data by 1db 
pitch.

OXYGEN CALIBRATION 
Calibration for CTD oxygen was carried out using sample values using the Formula 
(Owens and Millard, 1985). But it turned out that this calibration method did 
not work well for our data. We got the results of QC of the sample oxygen in 
August 1996. The result of the CTD oxygen calibration through a different method 
than we had tried will be reported again.


WHPO DATA PROCESSING NOTES

Date      Contact     Data Type    Data Status Summary
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08/30/98  Talley      BTL          Data Update    replaced Bottle data file with
          two separate files from original files from WHOI/website that had QUAL 
          codes. (LDT/SCD)

09/07/98  Fukasawa    CTD/BTL      Problems with data:    Lynne-Three weeks has 
          passed since I came back from the sea to find your e-mails.  I am 
          sorry to have made you wait so long. Now , I will try to make answer 
          to each of your question.

          >>A number of years ago you sent me CTD data from Soyo-maru 1994, and 
          our correspondence indicated that this was most likely the data set to 
          complete the P2 section.

          Yes, that was the case, I believe.

           >>Is this still the case?  If so, could we at the WHPO obtain the 
          data files and begin to include the information in the 1-time Pacific 
          survey maps and tables?  The data do not need to be public, but it 
          would be helpful to have them, and to also add a station map to our 
          web data site.

          I have been believed that Dr. Yoritaka, who was the PI of CTD on 
          Syoyo-maru 1994 deposited CTD data from Syoyo-maru 1994 to WHPO though 
          so many bad quality flags were included. (Isn't it the case?> 
          Dr.Yoritaka)

          >>We are also moving along on the Pacific atlas, for which the 
          complete P2 stations would be needed.  I can go ahead with things 
          based on the CTD data set that you sent me before.  Is this what I 
          should do?



Date      Contact     Data Type    Data Status Summary
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          I think CTD data from Syoyo-1994 were useful to depict the water mass 
          structure only down to the intermediate depths because Dr, Yoritaka 
          told me that they could not carried out the post cruise calibration of 
          CTD system. In fact, at depths deeper than, say, 3000db, we can find a 
          good correspondence between temperature data from Bosei and Kaiyo but 
          not between Syoyo-1994 and Kaiyo. Several years ago I surely sent the 
          data for you to draw a map of the intermediate water masses. I may be 
          not responsible to answer above question although I hope you go ahead 
          on data I sent you before. Dr. Yoritaka will make the final decision 
          and explanation of thing around the situation.

          >>For oxygen sections and maps, I prefer to use the bottle values. For 
          now I can use the p02w and p02ce data sets  BO9401 and SY9310, and 
          fill in with the Kaiyo Maru KY9401 for a few stations at the western 
          end. If however there is a bottle data set for SY94, it might be 
          preferable to use it with the BO9401 and SY9310 cruises. Can you let 
          me know the status of the SY94 data set?

          I think that even if the CTD data from Syoyo-1994 were not good 
          quality controlled, bottle data are useful. Dr.Yoritaka- can' t you 
          send bottle data from Syoyo-1994 to Lynne immediately?
          
10/19/98  Thompson    DELC14       No Data Submitted  
          Masao Fukasawa/Tokai Univ. needs help processing C14 data  
          
04/13/99  Talley      SUM          Data Update  see note:  
          Steve - I placed corrected versions of p02csu.txt and p02esu.txt in my 
          ftp area at whpo.  Please replace the online versions with these (and 
          acknowledge).  (What did I change - replaced P02C in the P02E file 
          with P02E,  replaced P02W in the P02C file with P02C).  Lynne
          


Date      Contact     Data Type    Data Status Summary
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04/15/99  Bartolacci  SUM          Data Update  see note:  
          I've replaced all of the p02.sum files (p02w, p02e, p02c) and updated 
          the table to reflect this.  In the case of p02c and p02e the sum file 
          changes (via Lynne)were correcting the occurrances of the old line 
          number designation with the new line number designation, and (by me) 
          replacing the slashes in the expocode to underscores.  (See Lynne's 
          emails below)

          IN the case of p02w the .sum file changes made (by Lynne) were 
          converting decimal degrees into degrees and minutes in the lats and 
          lons; the time was converted to GMT; station no. now has place holding 
          zeros; cast type was changed from CTD to ROS; and height above bottom, 
          wire out, and no. of bottles columns were also added.  This conversion 
          has shifted columns, however I ran sumchk on it with no errors.  
          Slashes in the expocode were also replaced by underscores.

          I have also replaced the corrupted P2E119.WCT file with Lynne's 
          updated version, and updated the table to reflect this.  The table was 
          also corrected to reflect the *bottle* data file being encrypted, NOT 
          the .sum file (previously the table indicated the .sum file was Non-
          public and the bottle file was public).
          
06/11/99  Talley      BTL          Data Update  See note:  
          I received "corrected" p02c (expocode 49EWBO9401/1) bottle data from 
          Masao Fukasawa on April 28 and did not have time to do anything with 
          it until now.  The file which you have in the WHPO directory has a 
          number of errors, and must be replaced.


Date      Contact     Data Type    Data Status Summary
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09/29/99  Diggs       BTL          Website Updated: new file online/encrypted  
          I have updated the bottle data file for p02c.  It's encrypted until 
          further notice and there are only the following parameters in the 
          file:
                      STNNBR                  
                      CASTNO                  
                      SAMPNO                  
                      BTLNBR           *******
                      CTDPRS     DBAR         
                      CTDTMP   ITS-90         
                      CTDSAL   PSS-78  *******
                      CTDOXY  UMOL/KG  *******
                       THETA   ITS-90  *******
                      SALNTY   PSS-78  *******
                      OXYGEN  UMOL/KG         
                      QUALT1                  
                      QUALT2 

          All tables have been updated.
          
09/14/00  Fukasawa    CTD/BTL      Data are Public  
          As for P02C data, I have no objection to open them.  
          
10/02/00  Fukasawa    NUTs/CFCs  Data Update  NUTs sent to WHOI, CFCs not 
          collected  As for P2C and E, nutrients data were collected and Dr. 
          Saito, who is the PI, reported me that data was submitted to WHOI. PI 
          of CFCs is Dr. Watanabe although CFC data were note collected on 
          neither P2C nor P2E.
          
10/30/00  Huynh       DOC          Website Updated  pdf, txt versions online  
          
02/21/01  Diggs       NUTs         Reformatted by WHPO    
          Bottle: (ctdprs, silcat, no2 no3, phspht) nuts from Saito (via L. 
          Talley) extracted from Excel files and reformatted into WOCE format. 
          files in original directory with today's date


Date      Contact     Data Type    Data Status Summary
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02/21/01  Diggs       NUTs         Submitted    
          I received P02C/E nutrients as well from Saito, and just reformatted 
          them and placed them in the original directories for each line.  I'll 
          have Stacy merge them in.
          
12/03/01  Diggs       CTD/BTL      Data ready to be merged  
          NUTs ready to be merged, see note:  BOTTLE  Nutrients are ready to 
          merge (S. Anfuso never got to them) BOTTLE & CTD encrypted. Aren't 
          these data public yet?
          
12/04/01  Diggs       CTD/BTL      Website Updated  
          Data Unencrypted, new CSV files added  
          Unencrypted BOTTLE and CTD files (they're public). Made exchange 
          formatted couterparts (CTD,BOT) and placed online.
          
01/16/02  Kappa       DOC          Compiled PDF and Text cruise reports
