20 August, 2001

    - Cruises 1 through 22: corrected sign in longitude (degrees and minutes) to negative. The western longitude for these cruises was originally reported as a positive value.

    - HOT-2, 1988/12/3 24:00 and 1988/12/4 24:00, corrected hour from 24 to 0

    - HOT-2, 1988/12/4 20:00, corrected minutes in longitude from -84.5 to -4.5

    - HOT-13, 1990/1/7 08:00 corrected degrees in latitude from 11 to 22

    - HOT-32, two of the records had the same date and time 91 12 7 8, corrected the day of the second record to 8 (91 12 8 8)

    - HOT-41, 1992/10/20 16:00, corrected degrees in longitude from -158 to -157

    - HOT-52, 1994/2/19 08:00 corrected minutes in latitude from 0.4 to 45.5

    - HOT-59, corrected 1994/11/21 12:00, two records had the same date and time, the hour from the first record was corrected to 8

    - HOT-61, 1995/3/4 16:00 corrected minutes in latitude from 24.9 to 44.9

    - HOT-63, 1995/5/8 04:00 corrected minutes in latitude from 37.4 to 41.3, and minutes in longitude from -5.7 to -3.3

    - HOT-64, corrected hour in 1995/7/30 06:00 to 04:00

    - HOT-66, 1995/9/28 16:00, corrected longitude from -157 -0.06 to -157 -59.3

    - HOT-67, 1995/10/29 00:00 corrected minutes in latitude from 31.1 to 44.9 and minutes in longitude from -56.9 to -59.0

    95 10 28 8 corrected minutes in latitude from 26.7 to 46.7 and minutes in longitude from -55.1 to -59.1

    - HOT-69, corrected year 1995/1/18 08:00 to 1996/1/18 08:00

    - HOT-70, corrected day 1996/3/26 00:00 to 1996/3/27 00:00

    - HOT-76, 1996/10/2 12:00 corrected latitude degrees from 0 to 22

    - hot-83, 1997/5/8 4:00 corrected degrees latitude from 24 to 22

    - HOT-87, 1997/9/25 12:00 corrected longitude degrees from -158 to -157

    - HOT-89, corrected 1998/1/11 00:00, two records had the same date and time, the day from the second record was corrected to 12

    - HOT-90, 1998/2/19 12:00, corrected degrees in longitude from -158 to -157

    - HOT-94, 1998/6/16 00:00, there were two records with this time, removed the first record of the file.

    - HOT-105, 1999/5/10 08:00, corrected minutes in longitude from -0.6 to -58.3

    - HOT-105, 1999/5/11 04:00, corrected minutes in longitude from -10.3 to -1.3

    - HOT-110, 1999/12/14 00:00, corrected degrees in latitude from 29 to 21

    Additional modifications to the data files ------------------------------------------

    - Added flag column to met1_*.dat files for cruises 1 through 41. This column was added to make the data format consistent with the rest of the cruises.

    - HOT-1, 2 and 18: data files met1_1.dat, met1_2.dat, met1_18.dat, reversed order of data records to make them time increasing

    - hot-12, corrected the order of two records in the file, 89 11 27 0 and 89 11 27 20 where moved at the beginning of the file

    - hot-31, reversed the order of two records in the file 91 10 23 8 and 91 10 23 4

    - hot-32, corrected the order of two records in the file, 91 12 7 4 and 91 12 7 12 where out of order.

    - hot-78, reversed the order of two records in the file 96 12 11 20 and 96 12 11 16

    - hot-86, reversed the order of two records in the file 97 8 3 12 and 97 8 3 8

    HOT year 1998 corrections -------------------------

    Some of the 1998 data were flagged or corrected after a problem with the air temperatures was found.

    met1_91.dat 98 3 18 4, Air temperature flagged suspect

    met1_92.dat 98 4 14 16, Sea surface temperature flagged suspect

    met1_92.dat 98 4 16 4, Wet temperature flagged suspect

    met1_92.dat 98 4 17 0, Air temperature flagged suspect

    met1_95.dat and met2_95.dat, 98 7 15 12, Air temperature corrected from 25.00 to 23.89

    met1_95.dat 98 7 15 20, Air temperature flagged suspect

    met1_95.dat 98 7 16 0, Air temperature flagged suspect

    met1_95.dat 98 7 16 4, Air temperature flagged suspect

    met1_96.dat 98 8 10 20, Air temperature flagged suspect

    met1_96.dat 98 8 11 0, Air temperature flagged suspect

    met1_96.dat 98 8 11 4, Air temperature flagged suspect

    met1_96.dat 98 8 11 12, Air temperature flagged suspect

    met1_96.dat 98 8 11 16, Air temperature flagged suspect

    met1_96.dat 98 8 11 20, Air temperature flagged suspect

    met1_98.dat 98 10 19 0, Air temperature flagged suspect

    met1_98.dat 98 10 19 20, Air temperature flagged suspect

    met1_99.dat 98 11 11 0, Air temperature flagged suspect

    met1_99.dat 98 11 11 21, Air temperature flagged suspect

    met1_99.dat 98 11 12 0, Air temperature flagged suspect

    In addition, the air temperature data from cruises 94 and 100 were corrected using the ship's meteorological data. Files corrected: met1_94.dat, met2_94.dat, met1_100.dat and met2_100.dat


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