Principal investigators and associated investigators: John Toole (WHOI), Greg Johnson (NOAA/PMEL), Susan Wijffels (CSIRO), Lynne Talley (SIO/UCSD), Paul Robbins (SIO/UCSD).
Jim Swift, Steve Diggs, Jerry Kappa, Danie Bartolocci also have permission to use this website in their WHPO capacities. David Newton (SIO) maintains this computer and passwords.
Fig. 1. Map of WHP Pacific station positions and section names.
Click HERE with your right mouse button to download the postscript version of the map.
Useful sites:
Paul Robbins' inverse model web site.
WOCE Hydrographic Programme Office
John Lupton's helium page (P17 and P19 helium sections).
Bill Jenkins' helium page.
Bob Key's del14C page.
Click Details at top, and then click Figures farther down that page.
Missing data sets as of 11/9/99:
P02 W,C,E do not have nutrients (never received from Japan)
P08 - P08S is at WHPO. P08N sum files available, no data.
Jenkins helium/tritium website (sections/maps): http://kopernik.whoi.edu/wpag/wpac.html
Plots are linked to WHP_Pacific_all.html. This contains proprietary sections. If you want a public link then use WHP_Pacific_public.html.
P08 (WHPO disk, 5/98)
P9 (WHPO disk, 11/97 with Talley reorganization)
P9 CTD and bottle plots (sections)
Primary reference:
Wijffels, S. E., M. M. Hall, T. Joyce, D. J. Torres, P. Hacker and
E. Firing, 1998. Multiple deep gyres of the western North Pacific:
A WOCE section along 149E. J. Geophys. Res., 103, 12985-
13009.
P10 CTD plots (sections)
p11a: stations 63 to 16 (not sta. 64)
p11s: stations 70 to 1
P11A (Talley disk, 11/97)
P11A plots (sections)
P11S - CTD/sum files OK;
bottle data in the process of being reformatted for our use
P12:
P12 from WHPO disk 4/99The section from south to north is: stations 55 to 106
P13: these are three separate sections. The US section is most complete.
P13C: 1991 Japan (WHPO disk, 11/97)
P13: 1992 US (WHPO disk, 11/97)
P13J 1993 Japanese (WHPO disk, 11/97)
P14: The P14S section should possibly be kept separate from the P14C/P14N section. The complete P14C/P14N section from south to north is:
p14c: stations 1 to 52
p14n: stations 185 to 2
P14C (WHPO disk 11/97)
P14 plots (P14C and P14N) from old formatted data (sections)
P14S and P15S (WHPO disk 11/97 for CTD and sum; Johnson for sea)
P14S: stations 32 to 4 (from south to north)
P15: The complete WOCE section from south to north is made from 2 sections from three files. P15S and P15nb overlap from equator to 10S, so two possible ways to make the section. Suggest using p15S instead of p15nb since vertical sampling scheme is denser on p15s:
p14s_p15s: stations 33 to 174 (or 33 to 154). Stas. 93 and 94 at same location - delete one. Stas. 175 and 176 are interspersed as 162 176 163 175 164. Don't use in main atlas section.P15N (WHPO disk 11/97)
p15nb: stations 111 to 71 (or 142 to 71 if using 33-154 for p14s_p15s)
p15na: stations 70 to 1
Note that the files have many other non-WOCE stations in them
Note that there are gaps in coverage between 50 and 53N, and between 43 30 and 47N. (The latter is mentioned in cruise documentation - winds up to 70 knots.)
P16: The complete WOCE section from south to north is made from 4 sections:
p16a_p17a stations 53 to 3 (or 53 to 4 - 3 overlaps with p16s sta. 180)
p16s_p17s stations 181 to 219 (or 180 to 219)
p16c stations 221 to 326 (all, but noting that odd stations from 251 to 285 have very few bottle samples and used different CTD)
p16n stations 16 to 64 (65 and 66 may fit in out of order). The old 1984 Marathon section might be a better choice because of better station spacing. There are no bottle samples at station 38.
P17:
The complete P17 section from south to north is:
P17E_P19S: stations 164 to 128P17N (WHPO disk 1/98)
P16A_P17A: stations 81 to 118
P16S_P17S: stations 179 to 124
P17C: stations 122 to 16
P17N: stations 29 to 106 (or 121 to cross shelf)
P18 (WHPO disk, 1/98)
Section is stations 10 to 194 (south to north).
P18 plots (sections)
P19:
The complete P19 section from south to north is:
P17E_P19S: stations 233 to 206P19C (WHPO disk 1/98)
P19C: stations 257 to 422
A21:
The Drake Passage portion of A21 from south to north is:
stations 117 to 101
A21 (WHPO disk 6/98)
A21 plots (CTD sections)
P01:
Two sections: P01W in the Okhotsk Sea, and P01 (pre-WOCE) along
approximately 47N
P01W (WHPO disk 1/98; CTD files direct from IOS)
P01W plots (CTD sections)
P01 (WHPO disk 1/98)
P01 plots (CTD and bottle sections)
P17NE:
Gulf of Alaska zonal section occupied as part of P17N. Use
stations 121-148.
P17N (WHPO disk 1/98)
P02:
Station track:
p02ww: Syoyo Maru 1994 stations not acquired yet
p02w: stations 14 to 34
p02ce: stations 35 to 165
p02t: separate section, stations 1 to 157 (skips about every other number)
P02 (WHPO and Talley disks 1/98) - incomplete
P24:
P24: complete
P03:
Station track: stations 389 to 1 (west to east), plus small additional
Kuroshio (Tokara Strait) section stations 390 to 408
P03 (nemo - complete and WHPO - partial 1/98)
P03 plots (CTD sections)
P04:
Station track:
p04w: stations 3-82 (no 8)
p04c: stations 85-119
p04e: stations 121-221 (no 215,216)
P04 (WHPO disk 1/98)
P04 plots (CTD sections)
P06:
Station track:
Complete P06 section from west to east:
p06w: stations 246 to 191
p06c: stations 188-75 (no 112, 141 or 187)
p06e: stations 72-4
P06 (WHPO disk 1/98)
P06 plots (CTD sections)
P21:
P21 (new from WHOI 3/98)
P21 plots (CTD sections 1997)
P31 (WHPO and Talley disk 1/98)
P17E:
Station track:
Complete P17E section from west to east:
p17e_p19s: stations 128 to 139P17E_P19S (WHPO disk 1/98)
p17e_p19s: stations 165 to 206
p19c: stations 255 to 235
P17E plots (CTD sections)
S04P:
S04P (WHPO disk 2/98)
S04P plots (CTD sections)
WOCE Data Information Unit (University of Delaware)
WOCE Hydrographic Program Office (SIO) (Not much information there yet)
Vertical Section Atlas - public site with gridded data and plots from the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans (Talley)
INPOC (Subarctic North Pacific hydrographic surveys, Russia/Canada/U.S. 1991-1993).
