Hello Data Recipient,

    The National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) is pleased
to assist you with your request through the efforts of the
Shipboard ADCP Center (SAC) established at the University of
Hawaii.  Acknowledgement of NODC's services in publications 
using this data is appreciated.

   The data have been placed in an anonymous ftp account.  For
access, type

             ftp kapau.soest.hawaii.edu

             user: anonymous
             pswd: your email

             cd pub/adcp/xfer_dat      (or other path if so instructed)

             mget *.*

    The filenames are the following:
    read_1st.doc               "This file - explains file names"
    std_sub.doc                "standard subset format description"
    cru_trk.doc                "cruise track format description"
    dist_pol.doc               "NODC shipboard ADCP distribution policy"
    *.inv                      "inventory file"

    The following exist for each cruise given by SAC_ID, such as 00001:
    *.bft                      "cruise summary and metadata file"
    *.cru                      "ASCII cruise tracks"
    *.sub                      "standard subset"

    If high-resolution data have been requested, a subdirectory is created
    for each cruise using the SAC_ID as the directory name.  Within this
    directory, you will find another read_me.doc file to explain contents.

    Other information available within the NODC/SAC anonymous ftp area :

 directory             comment
 -------------------   -----------------------------------
 INVNTORY              Inventory lists, cruise track plots 
 DATABASE              standard subsets, cruise tracks, and 
                       cruise summary files for each cruise 
                      *if you obtain files, please email me 
                       and let me know what you grabbed, thanks.
                       caldwell@soest.hawaii.edu
 BIRS                  Browse, Inventory, and Retrieval Software.
                       Available for public queries of global
                       database.  
 GEN_DOC               general documentation and overview
 ASC_DUMP              software for ascii dump of codas data set
 CODAS_MN              1) a compressed post-script "rough draft"
                       of processing manual and 2) "second draft"
                       of NODC's Acess to High-Resolution CODAS
                       Shipboard ADCP Data
 SUBMIT                ATTENTION DATA CONTRIBUTORS
                       metadata is invaluable, to assist in
                       preparation for your submission, see
                       this subdirectory for a
                       a blank form and an example
 SAMP_SUB              sample files for NODC subset
 ESM                   article for NOAA's Earth System Monitor
 xfer_dat              working area for data transfer

    Questions and comments can be directed to:
  
     Mr. Patrick Caldwell
     NODC Hawaii Liaison Officer
     Shipboard ADCP Center
     Dept. of Oceanography
     University of Hawaii, MSB 317
     Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
     USA
 
     Internet: caldwell@soest.hawaii.edu
     fax:  808-956-4104
     office phone: 808-956-4105