Title: Aircraft P-3 Oceanography AXBT Profiles (RSMAS)

Contact:

   Lynn K. (Nick) Shay
   Professor, Meteorology and Physical Oceanography
   Upper Ocean Dynamics Laboratory
   Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
   University of Miami
   4600 Rickenbacker Causeway
   Miami, FL 33149

   WEB Page: http://storm.rsmas.miami.edu/~nick
   Phone: 305-361-4075
   Fax: 305-361-4696
   Email: lshay@rsmas.miami.edu


All .QC profiles have been quality controlled using the following method:

All profiles were inspected for erroneous data points and eliminated. 

The profiles were then sent through a smoothing filter with the data length 
of the filter dependent on the noise of the signal. If the signal was too noisy, 
the filtering was done several times. The filter was also depth-dependent depending 
on the noise profile and other factors such as keeping important details (ie. halocline, 
thermocline, etc.). 

Once the filtering was complete, the data was linearly-interpolated to fall on a 
incremented 2-meter profile beginning at 2 meters (except for the XCPs which began 
at 10 meters) and ending where the data points were discernible. 

If there were errors or noise above 10 meters, a linear fit was made within the 
thermocline and halocline to linearly fit temperature and salinity in this 10 meter range. 

Each .QC file contains a header with 19 important features about the profile. Included 
in the header were the following:

Date of Launch
Time of Launch in UTC
Latitude of probe launch
Longitude of probe launch
Log sequence number that coincides with field logs
Flight Sequence number - the number on the left of the underscore is the flight and the number on
	the right is the drop number. All drops, whether they were good or not, were given a number
	in the sequence for when they were dropped.
Probe Type:	
	AXBT - Airborne eXpendable BathyThermograph
	AXCT - Airborne eXpendable Conductivity Temperature probe
	AXCP - Airborne eXpendable Current Profiler
Probe Serial Number - manufacturers serial number except the XBTs which 
        were given a local field number.

Probe Max Depth - the maximum designed depth (in meters) for the probe
Actual Depth - the depth (in meters) for which there was discernible data

All missing or bad values in the profile were labelled with -999.99

RF		Date
-----------------
rf06	09/14/01
rf08	09/19/01
rf10	09/23/01
rf11	09/25/01
rf14	10/02/01
rf18	10/09/01
rf19	10/10/01

Data are also available for the following dates:
09/12/01, 09/16/01, 09/28/01, 10/03/01, 10/05/01, 
10/06/01, and 10/07/01.

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