xbt aug93 23aug93-26sep93 Water temperature profiles using xbt's. Corrected for bad points and interpolate to standard depths, depth (meters) temperature (degreesC) Along offshore transects xbt's used between regular 20km spaced stations on 600, 500, 400 and 300 lines. Also, two 10 km lines were run along the 800 and 900 lines across the shelf break. Specifically, stations were done every two km between 800.145 and 800.155 and between 900.120 and 900.130. Probes dropped using ship's handheld Sippican launcher. Export files (*.exp) using Sippican mark 12 software on the original files (*.sip). Files corrected for spikes and interpolated to standard depths. A temperature spike is interpreted as the probe hitting the bottom and values below this point are deleted. The bottom spike is not always clearly evident. Some spiky records are due to the wire hitting the ice or the ship because of wind. One point spikes are interpolated by hand. The three to four values at the surface are changed to the next deeper temperature. The modified temperature values are averaged over three adjacent depths and these averaged values are interpolated by cubic splines to standard depths. The spline fitting routine is from the book, Numerical Recipes. Obtain offshore transect temperature profiles at 10 km spacing using bops and xbt's. Specific areas midway offshore on 800 and 900 transect lines targeted. none antarctic, temperature, xbt ascii online lter MSDOS floppy disk tar using mwrite ODU unix files ~lter/lterdata/93aug/xbt/evt*.dat Raymond C. Smith, John Klinck John Klinck Raymond Smith John Klinck none none John Klinck John Klinck 2Jan96 none Records can be compared to the temperature profiles from BOPS. Evt 17 duplicates 16 10 minutes later at station 600.200; ignore 17. Evt 345 bad cast. Discrepency in event numbers, ship log gives events 445-456 while xbt files renamed to be 500-511. Evt 24,31 not processed. Core measurments available after two years. Citation acknowledgement: "Data from the Palmer LTER data archive were supported by Office of Polar Programs, NSF (OPP-9011927)."