S04I bathymetry and station information: ASCII bathymetry data file was obtained from WOCE Global Data Version 3.0 DVD The depths are corrected. Expocode: 320696_3 Chief Scientist: Thomas Whitworth III, James H. Swift Ship: RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer Ports: Cape Town, South Africa - Hobart, Australia Dates: May 03 to July 04 1996 ------------------------- File Description: "88010051.a77" is the original data in NGDC format "S04I_bathy_gdc.txt" is 88010051.a77 reformatted to our standard gdc format "S04I_bathydist.txt" is the decimated bathymetry file, projected onto straight lines between station positions, used for plotting the vertical sections. Bathymetry was missing around station 1 and around station 64. Therefore, Smith-Sandwell bathymetry data was used to fill in the missing areas. "S04I_sta_bdep.txt" is the station list, with corrected bottom depths for each station, based on the WHP format station summary file s04isu.txt. -------------------------- Format Specifications: Ascii Navigation format for the original data 88010051.a77 Complex, packed format. Obtain programs and subroutines from SIO Geological Data Center Ascii Navigation format for the formatted data "S04I_bathy_gdc.txt" latitude (xxx.xxx) longitude (xxxx.xxx) unc depth (xxxxx.x) meters corr depth (xxxxx.x) meters month (ii) (set to zero here) julian day (iii) day of the year year (ii) assuming 1900 century hour (ii) minute (ii) second (ii) Julian date (xxxxxxx.xxxxx) Format of the file used for section plotting "S04I_bathydist.txt" ist (iii) station number (set to 1) dist (ffffff.f) distance (km) along section lat (dddddd.mm) decimal latitude lon (dddddd.mm) decimal longitude dpt (ddddd.d) depth meters Format of "S04I_sta_bdep.txt" station (iiii) station number distance (xxxxx.x) km along section latitude (xxx.xxx) longitude (xxxx.xxx) depth (xxxx.x) in meters