*2002/02/28 09:47:41.56
*IOS HEADER VERSION 1.3  1999/04/13 1999/12/09

*FILE
    START TIME          : UTC 1968/04/09 09:30:00.000
    NUMBER OF RECORDS   : 14
    DATA DESCRIPTION    : Bottle:Wire
    FILE TYPE           : ASCII
    DATA TYPE           : REAL*4
    PAD                 : -99
    NUMBER OF CHANNELS  : 3

    $TABLE: CHANNELS
    ! No Name                    Units    Minimum        Maximum
    ! -- ----------------------- -------- -------------- --------------
       1 Depth                   metres   0              400
       2 Temperature:Reversing   'deg C'  3.7            6.23
       3 Salinity:Bottle         ppt      32.536         33.947
    $END

    $TABLE: CHANNEL DETAIL
    ! No  Pad   Start  Width  Format  Type  Decimal_Places
    ! --  ----  -----  -----  ------  ----  --------------
       1  ' '   ' '        6  F       ' '     0
       2  ' '   ' '        7  F       ' '     2
       3  ' '   ' '        8  F       ' '     3
    $END

*ADMINISTRATION
    MISSION             : 1968-03
    AGENCY              : POG, Nanaimo, B.C.
    COUNTRY             : Canada
    PROJECT             : Station P
    SCIENTIST           : Healey D.A.
    PLATFORM            : Vancouver

*LOCATION
    GEOGRAPHIC AREA     : NE PACIFIC
    STATION             : 9
    EVENT NUMBER        : 19
    LATITUDE            :  49  26.00000 N  ! (deg min)
    LONGITUDE           : 136  40.00000 W  ! (deg min)

*INSTRUMENT
    TYPE                : Bottle
    MODEL               : Nansen 1-Litre

*HISTORY

    $TABLE: PROGRAMS
    !   Name     Vers   Date       Time     Recs In   Recs Out
    !   -------- ------ ---------- -------- --------- ---------
        HDREDIT2 1.3    2002/02/11 16:37:28 ?         ?
        HDREDIT2 1.3    2002/02/11 16:40:12 ?         ?
        HDREDIT2 1.3    2002/02/28 09:47:41 ?         ?
    $END

*COMMENTS
 Converted from SUS TABATA's STDHYD data files by Robin Brown

 Additional comments

 Contents:
 Cast data from Weathership program using ships C.C.G.S."Vancouver" &
 C.C.G.S. "Quadra" from Vancouver Island, BC, Canada to Ocean Weather Station P
 [50N x 145W].
 Data incl SWT,SAL,O2,NO3

 Sample collection methods:
 Sea Water Temp
 -  reversing thermometers mounted on Reversing Bottle samplers
 Salinity
 - Collected in Reversing Bottle samplers
 Dissolved Oxygen
 - Collected in Reversing Bottle samplers
 Reactive Nutrients (nitrate)
 - Collected in Reversing Bottle samplers

 Sample analysis methods:
 Sea Water Temp
 -  Shipboard reading of reversing thermometers
 Salinity
 - Shipboard analysis with Salinometer Autolab Model 601 MkIII
 Dissolved Oxygen
 - Shipboard analysis - modified Winkler method
 Reactive Nutrients (nitrate)
 - Shipboard analysis - see reference manual by Strickland 1958a, 1958b

 References:
 1. Canadian Oceanographic Data Centre. MS, 1969. Ocean Weather Station "P",
 North Pacific Ocean. 1969 Data Record Series, No. 69-10 (Feb - May, 1968);
 No. 69-12 (May - Aug, 1968).
 2. Fisheries Research Board of Canada (FRB), Manuscript Report Series,
 No. 1047, Oceanographic Observations At Ocean Station P, (50N, 145W),
 9 August - 26 September, 1968.
 3. Fisheries Research Board of Canada (FRB), Technical Report, No. 143,
 Oceanographic Observations At Ocean Station P, (50N, 145W), 27 October 1968
 to 26 February 1969.
 4. Stephens, K. 1968. Data record : Primary Production Data from the Northeast
 Pacific Ocean January 1967 to December 1969. Fisheries Research Board of Canada
 Manuscript report series No. 1123.
 5. Above references @Institute of Ocean Sciences Library, Sidney, B.C.
!--1-- --2--- ---3---
!Depth Temper Salinit
!      ature: y:     
!      Revers Bottle 
!      ing           
!----- ------ -------
*END OF HEADER
    0.   6.20  32.552
   10.   6.20  32.538
   20.   6.23  32.545
   30.   6.21  32.536
   50.   6.06  32.553
   75.   5.96  32.549
  100.   5.96  32.547
  125.   5.37  32.767
  150.   5.04  33.312
  175.   4.94  33.495
  200.   5.06  33.744
  250.   4.48  33.796
  300.   4.19  33.812
  400.   3.70  33.947