P16C bathymetry: (TUNES 3) ASCII navigation and bathymetry data file was obtained from Stu Smith at the SIO Geological Data Center 9/22/94, in his own format, including both uncorrected and Carter-corrected depths. Expocode: 31WTTUNES_3 Chief Scientist: Lynne Talley Ship: R/V Thomas Washington Ports: Papeete, Tahiti to Honolulu, Hawaii Dates: August 31 1991 - October 1 1991 "uwmlst.TUNE03WT" is the original data, Smith format "P16C_bathy_gdc.dat" is the same data, GDC format Files updated 7/31/02 LDT ------------------------------------- Ascii Navigation format for the original data file "uwmlst.TUNE03WT" (one record per line) Self-explanatory header. Format of the "GDC" format file, "P16C_bathy_gdc.dat" (one record per line): lat (ddddd.mmm) "S" negative lon (ddddd.mmm) "W" negative dpt (dddddd.d) meters imo (ii) month ida (ii) day iyr (ii) year ihr (ii) hour imi (ii) minute ise (ii) second ydat (yyyyddd.hhh) (Julian date in ytk format) ----------------------- Comments on data: Data were cleaned and processed at the SIO Geological Data Center and archived at the National Geological Data Center. They are available as file 15040207 on the NGDC CDROM, in mgd77 format.