From: OKA Eitarou [mailto:eoka@ori.u-tokyo.ac.jp] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 8:57 AM Subject: North Pacific Argo float data: A Very Important Notice Dear "North Pacific Argo float data set" users, In mid-Feb, Argo Project Office (http://www-argo.ucsd.edu/) announced that pressure values measured by some floats can have serious offset error. The relevant floats are 287 SOLO-type floats (including those already stopped their operation) that are equipped with FSI CTD sensor and owned by WHOI. Although most of these floats were deployed in the Atlantic, 16 of them were deployed in the Pacific (WMO IDs of all 287 floats are listed in the attached file "bad_fsi_list.txt"). Argo Project Office advises not to use the data from these floats until the problem is resolved. In response to this problem, I checked all the data from Jan. 2001 through Dec. 2006 that I have made, and found 17 profiles from 2 relevant floats (WMO 3900151 and 3900152) are included in my data (see attached "okadata_bad_fsi_list.txt" for details). Since it's hard to delete all these bad profiles from the already released data (for both me and the users), I'm not going to change the data in responce to this problem. Instead, I would like to ask you to delete all the profiles from the 2 floats (WMO 3900151 and 3900152) when you analyze the data in 2004 and 2005. The data made from now will not include profiles from the relevant floats. I apologize for the inconvenience and the late notice. The website for the dataset: http://ocg.ori.u-tokyo.ac.jp/member/eoka/data/NPargodata/ thank you, eitarou -------------------------------------------------------------------- Attached file "okadata_bad_fsi_list.txt" year mo prof DAC WMO_ID obs# date lat lon layer 2004 05 23 AO 3900151 18 20040508 0.094 276.407 28 2004 05 24 AO 3900151 19 20040518 0.233 275.879 44 2004 05 25 AO 3900151 20 20040528 0.116 275.253 38 2004 07 62 AO 3900151 26 20040727 0.208 274.288 43 2004 09 57 AO 3900151 31 20040915 0.394 274.236 43 2004 09 58 AO 3900151 32 20040925 0.422 274.178 42 2005 05 268 AO 3900152 56 20050524 0.335 270.420 42 2005 06 309 AO 3900152 58 20050613 0.581 269.534 43 2005 06 310 AO 3900152 59 20050623 0.619 268.898 42 2005 07 387 AO 3900152 60 20050703 0.223 267.505 43 2005 08 402 AO 3900152 63 20050802 0.642 267.706 43 2005 08 403 AO 3900152 64 20050812 0.277 267.657 43 2005 08 404 AO 3900152 65 20050822 0.355 267.399 42 2005 09 373 AO 3900152 66 20050901 0.732 267.282 43 2005 09 374 AO 3900152 67 20050911 1.064 267.150 43 2005 10 395 AO 3900152 69 20051001 1.329 266.002 43 2005 10 396 AO 3900152 72 20051031 1.614 263.633 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Attached file "bad_fsi_list.txt" 1900167 1900168 1900201 1900202 1900203 1900244 1900245 1900248 1900249 1900255 1900257 1900258 1900259 1900260 1900261 1900262 1900359 1900360 1900361 1900366 1900415 1900423 1900424 1900425 1900426 1900427 1900428 1900429 1900430 1900431 1900444 1900446 1900447 1900448 1900487 1900491 1900494 1900498 1900500 1900501 1900502 1900503 1900504 1900505 1900525 1900526 1900527 1900529 1900530 1900531 1900533 1900534 1900535 1900536 1900537 1900539 1900560 1900561 1900562 1900563 1900564 1900566 1900567 1900569 1900570 1900571 1900573 1900574 1900582 1900583 1900635 1900636 1900637 1900639 1900640 1900641 1900642 1900643 1900645 1900646 1900688 1900690 1900702 1900703 1900704 1900706 1900707 1900709 1900710 1900711 1900712 1900713 1900714 1900715 3900148 3900149 3900150 3900151 3900152 3900153 3900174 3900175 3900176 3900177 3900184 3900185 3900186 3900187 3900188 3900189 3900190 3900191 3900192 3900193 3900194 3900199 3900200 3900265 3900266 3900296 3900351 3900352 3900353 3900357 3900364 3900365 3900368 3900369 3900370 3900399 3900400 3900401 3900415 3900418 3900435 3900437 3900438 3900439 3900440 3900441 3900442 3900443 3900444 3900445 3900478 3900479 3900480 3900481 3900484 3900485 3900486 3900489 3900490 3900492 3900493 3900494 3900495 3900564 3900565 3900567 3900568 3900569 3900570 3900577 3900578 3900579 3900581 3900601 3900602 3900608 3900797 3900798 4900228 4900229 4900230 4900268 4900269 4900270 4900271 4900272 4900273 4900358 4900361 4900364 4900365 4900366 4900367 4900368 4900382 4900383 4900385 4900426 4900427 4900428 4900429 4900430 4900431 4900432 4900435 4900436 4900437 4900438 4900439 4900440 4900444 4900445 4900446 4900455 4900456 4900457 4900458 4900459 4900460 4900461 4900462 4900463 4900464 4900469 4900470 4900471 4900544 4900545 4900546 4900548 4900549 4900552 4900554 4900559 4900561 4900564 4900567 4900572 4900576 4900581 4900582 4900584 4900589 4900592 4900596 4900599 4900600 4900602 4900604 4900605 4900606 4900612 4900613 4900614 4900615 4900616 4900617 4900618 4900619 4900620 4900621 4900622 4900684 4900685 4900686 4900727 4900728 4900730 4900731 4900732 4900745 4900746 4900747 4900748 4900749 4900750 4900751 4900752 4900753 4900754 4900755 4900756 4900757 4900758 4900759 4900771 4900772 4900778 5901102 5901105 6900117 6900123 6900124 --------------------------------------------------------------------