HOT Physical Oceanography Cruise summary data

Scientists working within the Hawaiian Ocean Time-series (HOT)
project, "http://hahana.soest.hawaii.edu/", have been
making repeated observations of the hydrography, chemistry and biology
at a station north of Hawaii since October 1988. The objective of this
research is to provide a comprehensive description of the ocean at a
site representative of the central North Pacific Ocean. Cruises are
made approximately once a month to Station ALOHA, the HOT deep-water
station (22 45'N, 158W) located about 100 km north of Oahu,
Hawaii. Measurements of the thermohaline structure, water column
chemistry, currents, primary production and particle sedimentation
rates are made over a 72-hour period on each cruise.

Cruises are made to the HOT deep water station approximately once a
month, and are denoted as HOT-n, where n is the
sequential cruise number. HOT-1 was in October 1988.
Station inventories are given in files with the extension "sum" (e.g.,
HOT-1 is summarized in hot1.sum. Station inventories from the
ALOHA-Climax (AC) cruises are summarized in files with the prefix
ac (e.g., AC-1 is summarized in ac1.sum). These summary files are
written using formats specified by the WOCE Hydrographic Programme
Office, and are detailed in the WHP Office Report WHPO 90-1 at
"http://whpo.ucsd.edu/manuals.htm"

The continuous flow of these data depends on funding, and that depends
in part on the credits that we get from the data users. If
you use these data in your project, please contact Dr. Roger Lukas to
avoid possible duplication of efforts. Please consider the
benefits of possible scientific collaborations in the analysis of
these data. If you use our data in your project, we would appreciate your
acknowledgement of the HOT project.The following NSF grant number
should be cited in publications: OCE-9303094. A preprint and reprint
of the publications utilizing HOT data would be appreciated.