(1) FILE NAME:  9510ctdc.slb

 (2) YEAR and MONTH:  1995, October

 (3) PI:  Dr. Jack Blanton

 (4) OTHERS:  Julie Amft, Kristen O'Malley

 (5) BRIEF DESCRIPTION of DATA FILE:  1m vertical bin averages of 30 CTD casts,
     including OBS and uncalibrated chlorophyll a fluorescence, taken aboard the
     R/V Blue Fin on the Satilla River during a spring tide at
     anchor on October 26, 1995.

 (6) KEYWORDS:  Satilla, CTD, Spring, Anchor

 (7) RESEARCH LOCATION:  The Satilla river at SL+025.4 (2 digit river code+
     4 digit code for distance from river mouth in km).

 (8) EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS AND METHODS: Casts were taken with a SeaBird Electronics CTD25
     (S/N 64).  After soaking at the surface for approximately 45 seconds, the CTD was  
     lowered to the bottom by a power winch and held there for approximately 45
     additional seconds before being raised to the surface.  The collected data's
     downcasts were processed using standard SeaBird software to produce the 
     1m vertical bin averages.

 (9) NOTES AND COMMENTS:  Each cast has a header that contains information in the  
     following order: cast number, station location, date, time (EST), max water 
     depth (M), latitude (N in degrees and minutes), and 
     longitude (W in degrees and minutes).  Estimated predicted tidal height at
     station SL+002: Low Water at 0330 and 1615, High Water at 0945 and 2200 EST.
     Estimated predicted tidal height at station SL+031: Low Water at 0500 and
     1745, High Water at 1045 and 2300 EST.

(10) VARIABLE DESCRIPTION:

      VARIABLE  VARIABLE DESCRIPTION          PRES/UNITS        CODED	
      --------  --------------------          ----------        -----

      cast      cast number                                       N 
      depth     depth                         0.1 M               N
      temp      temperature                   0.01 deg C          N
      sal       salinity                      0.01 PSU            N
      sig       sigma-t (density)             0.01 Kg/M^3         N
      fluor     uncalibrated chlorophyll a   
                fluorescence                  0.01 V*6            N
      obs       optical backscatterence       0.1 mg/L            N
        
(11) CALCULATIONS:
                  Salinity=PSS-78
                  Sigma-t=p(s,t,O)-1000
     Both salinity and sigma-t were computed by the SeaBird software program.  The 
     formulas used were obtained from "Algorithms for Computation of Fundamental    
     Properties of Seawater" by N.P. Fofonoff and R.C. Millard Jr.; Unesco technical
     papers in marine science #44, 1983.

(12) FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Julie Amft
                                   Skidaway Institute of Oceanography	
                                   10 Ocean Science Circle
                                   Savannah, GA 31411

(13) OTHER DATA FILES TO REFERENCE:

(14) REFERENCE CITATIONS: None

(15) FORMAT OF VARIABLES:
	
     FILENAME: 9510ctdc.slb
     
      Column #  Column Name  Type      Width  Decimals
      --------  -----------  ----      -----  -------- 
         1      Cast         numeric     7       0
         2      Depth        numeric     9       1
         3      Temp         numeric     8       2
         4      Sal          numeric     8       2
         5      Sig          numeric     8       2
         6      Fluor        numeric     8       2
         7      OBS          numeric     8       1

(16) NUMBER of RECORDS: 217 lines         

(17) STATUS: Type 2

(18) FOR ARCHIVAL USE: