Table 1:

Number of profiles, broken down by month, that are either real-time (RT), delayed mode (DM) or duplicates (Dups) for 1990 data. There are 13135 real-time profiles and 5893 delayed mode profiles for 1990. After removing the duplicates from the combined RT and DM datasets the total number of profiles is 16866. There are 2162 profiles from the DM data that are higher resolution duplicates of the RT data. The remaining 3731 are actually "new" profiles, i.e., ones that were not received in real-time mode. There are still 11071 RT profiles that need to be updated, and there probably are a number of profiles that were not submitted as either RT or DM. 
Month		Received	Received	Received	Dups	Unique	Unique	Unique
		RT		DM		Total			RT	DM	TOTAL

Jan		  593		 220		  813		   61	   535	 217	  752
Feb		 1005		 391		 1396		  112	   896	 388	 1284
Mar		 1181		 231		 1412		   84	  1097	 231	 1328
Apr		 1147		 402		 1549		  183	   987	 379	 1366
May		 1174		 442		 1616		  182	   996	 438	 1434
Jun		  972		 760		 1732		  239	   742	 751	 1493
Jul		 1307		 609		 1916		  282	  1031	 603	 1634
Aug		 1221		 766		 1987	     	  213	  1016	 758	 1774
Sep		 1208	         694	         1902	          324	   902   676     1578
Oct		 1220	         583 		 1803	          274	   963	 566     1529
Nov   		 1121		 376		 1497	 	  109	  1016	 372	 1388
Dec	          986		  419		 1405		   99	   890	416	 1306
		_____		____		____		____	______	____	_____
		
		13135		5893		19028		2162	11071	5795	16866

Table 2:

Number of profiles, broken down by month, that are either real-time (RT), delayed mode (DM) or duplicates (Dups) for 1991 data. There are 9951 real-time profiles and 5940 delayed mode profiles for 1991. After removing the duplicates f rom the combined RT and DM datasets the total number of profiles is 13056. There are 2835 profiles from the DM data that are higher resolution duplicates of the RT data. The remaining 3105 are actually "new" profiles, i.e., ones that were not received i n real-time mode. There are still 7116 RT profiles that need to be updated, and there probably are a number of profiles that were not submitted as either RT or DM. 

Month	Received  Received	Received	Dups	Unique	    Unique	Unique	
	  RT	      DM	  Total		          RT	      DM	Total	


Jan	  989	      570	  1559		231	  758	      570	1328	
Feb	 1124	      571	  1695		281	  843	      571	1414	
Mar	 1071	      605	  1676	        398 	  673	      605	1278	
Apr	  757	      373         1130		205	  552	      373        925	
May	  846	      349	  1195		203	  643	      349	 992	
Jun	  812	      563	  1375		257	  555	      563	1118	
Jul	  946	      625	  1571		198 	  748	      625	1373	
Aug	  723	      494	  1217		227	  496	      494	 990	
Sep	  794	      446	  1240		244	  550	      446	 996	
Oct	  565	      483	  1048		180	  385	      483	 868	
Nov	  690	      412	  1102		162	  528         412	 940	
Dec	  634	      449	  1083		249	  385	      449	 834	
	 ____	     ____	 _____	       ____      _____	      ___	 ____	 
  
	 9951        5940	 15891	       2835 	  7116	     5940	13056

Table 3:

A cruise report is generated to identify problems and notify ships so that problem can be corrected as soon as possible. A list of ships that deployed more than 100 profiles is given as well as the number of real-time and delayed mode data. 

Ship name		Call_sign	Year		# of XBT's		# Flagged	
							RT	DM		RT	DM	

Delaware II		316G		1990		0	126		0	16	
Oregon II		316O		1990		0	224		0	15	
Vreeland (FF-68)	3174		1990		0	128		0	3	
Malcolm Baldrige	3175		1990		0	118		0	8	
Semmes (DDG-18)		31EM		1990		0	124		0	1	
Peterson (DD-969)	31TV		1990		0	159		0	7	
Richmond K. Turner
 (CG-20)		31Z8		1990		0	180		0	1	
Sea-Land Achiever	323Q		1990		0	159		0	40	
Thomas S. Gates
 (CG-51)		3271		1990		0	192		0	1	
DeYo (DD-989)		32IZ		1990		0	129		0	3	
Polar Sea		32L9		1990		0	354		0	56	
Oleander		32OD		1990		0	488		0	37	
Chapman			32YN		1990		0	202		0	27	
Renoir			35A1		1990		0	193		0	3	
Csav Rapel		35BW		1990		0	158		0	1	
Brisbane Star		35BY		1990		0	257		0	3	
CGM Ronsard		35CV		1990		0	157		0	2	
Delmas Surcouf		35LW		1990		0	319		0	3	
A. Nizery		35NI		1990		0	168		0	11	
Suzanne Delmas		35VM		1990		0	143		0	2	
Columbus Ohio		54CA		1990		0	177		0	20	
Ocean Weather
 Station Lima		C7L		1990		101	0		7	0	
Alfred Needler		CG2683		1990		114	0		5	0	
Wilfred Templeman	CGDV		1990		446	0		3	0	
Platform Nordsee	DA9100		1990		317	0		1	0	
Koln Express		DAKE		1990		586	0		67	0	
Polar stern		DBLK		1990		171	0		10	0	
Monte Rosa		DGLM		1990		159	0		14	0	
Puritan			DHOU		1990		122	0		9	0	
Lappland		DLEZ		1990		113	0		11	0	
Pacprince		ELED7		1990		111	0		39	0	
Pacprincess		ELED8		1990		110	0		15	0	
Columbus Ohio		ELHL6		1990		113	0		11	0	
Musson			EREA		1990		387	0		8	0	
Viktor Bugayev		ERES		1990		250	0		10	0	
Georgiy Ushakov		ERET		1990		242	0		4	0	
Ernst Krenkel		EREU		1990		172	0		6	0	
Persey III		ESGU		1990		238	0		3	0	
Nour			FNBA		1990		111	0		2	0	
Delmas Surcouf		FNCZ		1990		133	0		9	0	
Lafayette		FNGS		1990		139	0		2	0	
CGM  Renoir		FNOM		1990		104	0		5	0	
Cumulus			GACA		1990		264	0		16	0	
Delaware II		KNBD		1990		170	0		13	0	
Unknown			LAT2		1990		190	0		0	0	
Unknown			LAT3		1990		120	0		0	0	
Unknown			LAT4		1990		273	0		0	0	
Seas Eiffel		PASF		1990		0	122		0	0	
Sin Tong		PGDG		1990		159	0		13	0	
Oleander		PJYG		1990		139	0		31	0	
Unknown			SHIP		1990		195	0		3	0	
Vladimir Parshin	UINF		1990		169	0		2	0	
Professor
     Multanovskiy	UJFO		1990		148	0		1	0	
Professor Zubov	UMFW	1990		164		0	10		0	
Professor Vize		UPUI		1990		134	0		2	0	
Passat	  		UZGH		1990		184	0		1	0	
Gadus Atlantica	VC9450	1990		180		0	1		0	
Aircraft		VXN8		1990		293	0		33	0	
Galveston Bay		WPKD		1990		146	0		44	0	
Oregon II		WTDO		1990		165	0		11	0	


Ship name		Call_sign	Year		# of XBT's		# Flagged	
							RT	DM		RT	DM	




					1991		0	315		0	50	
Csav Rapel		3EET4		1991		30	115		5	0	
Vina del Mar		CBVM		1991		56	75		8	7	
Alfred Needler		CG2683		1991		189	0		2	0	
Wilfred Templeman	CGDV		1991		549	0		2	0	
Platform Nordsee	DA9100		1991		659	0		3	0	
Koln Express		DAKE		1991		485	0		50	0	
Polar Stern		DBLK		1991		181	0		6	0	
Monte Rosa		DGLM		1991		162	0		36	0	
Puritan			DHOU		1991		107	0		11	0	
Ariana			DIDA		1991		22	128		2	3	
Pacprince		ELED7		1991		11	345		2	97	
Pacprincess		ELED8		1991		84	42		4	2	
Columbus Ohio		ELHL6		1991		66	68		4	11	
Musson			EREA		1991		275	0		5	0	
Viktor Bugayev		ERES		1991		152	0		3	0	
Nour			ERET		1991		299	0		9	0	
Delmas Surcouf		FNBA		1991		105	0		0	0	
CGM Utrillo		FNCZ		1991		15	213		3	4	
Lafayette		FNGS		1991		44	179		4	7	
CGM Renoir		FNOM		1991		45	111		7	2	
Cumulus			GACA		1991		336	0		158	0	
Tilly			H8CB		1991		0	156		0	4	
Rowan Bank		J8FN		1991		1	386		0	48	
Algoa Bay		J8FO		1991		99	409		11	60	
Delaware II		KNBD		1991		51	54		1	5	
Sea Wolf		KNFG		1991		15	256		5	71	
Bain Bridge		NJUL		1991		0	133		0	1	
Hamilton		NMAC		1991		0	150		0	2	
Virginia (CGM-38)	NVYA		1991		0	124		0	2	
Oleander		PJJU		1991		151	0		58	0	
Unknown			SHIP		1991		1273	0		41	0	
Unknown			TUNI		1991		208	0		0	0	
Vladimir Parshin	UINF		1991		121	0		0	0	
Passat			UZGH		1991		164	0		2	0	
West Moor		V2PM		1991		278	0		36	0	
Gadus Atlantica		VC9450		1991		508	0		10	0	
Lady Hammond		VC9616		1991		178	0		1	0	
Galveston Bay		WPKD		1991		70	516		38	222	
Malcolm Baldrige	WTER		1991		75	175		2	9	
West Moor		ZCAQ9		1991		0	182		0	21

Table 4:

Scientific Quality Control (QC) procedures were developed to set flags on the temperature-depth profiles without changing or deleting data values from any profile. Every profile is examined and each data point is assigned one of the f ollowing 5 flag values. One of 11 reasons (Table 5) is given for each flag value of 3 or 4. 

	Flag		Quality			Description


	  0		 none			These data have not yet been quality 									controlled.	
	  1		 good			These data are of good quality, no 							error have been identified.
	  2	   "probably" good		These data are of probably good 						quality, some unusual features are 						present but these can not be 						identified as erroneous features.
	  3	   "probably" bad		These data are of suspect quality, 						some unusual, and probably erroneous 						features are observed.
	  4		  bad			These data are of bad quality, 						obviously erroneous values are 						observed.
	  5	    data changed		These data have been changed.

Table 5:

Reasons for flags 3 or 4, see Daneshzadeh et. al., (1994) and Bailey et. al., (1994) for additional detail. 

Code			Description	

CT		Constant temperature, Hit bottom error	
FS		Fine structure error: Leakage, PET fault, Cusping, Sticking bit	
ML		Mixed layer error: Bowing	
NG		No good profile	
PE		Position error	
SF		Surface Feature error: surface anomaly, chopped surface	
TE		Time error	
TI		Temperature inversion error: wire stretch	
TG		Temperature gradient error: insulation penetration, spikes, high frequency	
TO		Temperature offset error	
UR		Under resolved

Table 6:

The total number of profiles, duplicates, good profiles (flag value assigned 1 or 2), bad profiles (flag value assigned 3 or 4), and the number of flags are shown broken down by month for 1990 data. 


Mon	Total   Dups	RT	DM 	Good	  Bad	        flag of
      Profiles		 	     Profiles   Profiles     1   2   3  4	 		 

Jan	 813	 61	535	217	720	  32	   711   9   24   8	
Feb	1396	112	896	388    1191	  93	  1171  20   83  10	
Mar	1412	 84    1097	231    1291	  37	  1226  65   32   5	
Apr	1549	183	987	379    1310	  56	  1270  40   44	 12	
May	1616	182	996	438    1375       59	  1337  38   38  21	
Jun	1732	239	742	751    1394	  99	  1375  19   76	 23	
Jul	1916	282    1031	603    1534	 100	  1495	39   84  16	
Aug	1987	213    1016	758    1642	 132	  1613	29  109  23	
Sep	1902	324	902	676    1460	 118	  1426  34   84  34	
Oct	1803	274	963	566    1321	 208      1304  17  132  76	
Nov	1497	109    1016	372    1281	 107	  1262	19   68  39	
Dec	1405 	 99	890	416    1213	  93	  1195	18   55	 38	
	____	___	___	___ 	____	____	 _____	__  ___	 __

       19028   2162   11071    5795   15732	1134	 15385 347  829	305

Table 7:

The total number of reasons given to 1990 data for each profile with a flag value of 3 or 4. A profile may contain more than one reason (i.e., bad surface feature in upper 3.7m and hit bottom feature). 


Month	FS	ML	CT	TG	NG	TI	SF	PE	TE	UR	TO	
Jan	0	0	3	5	8	14	0	0	0	0	2	
Feb	0	0	7	31	9	32	0	0	0	0	14	
Mar	2	0	2	8	0	5	0	0	0	0	20	
Apr	4	0	7	13	6	7	0	0	0	0	19	
May	6	0	3	14	8	7	0	0	0	0	21	
Jun	6	0	6	30	8	22	0	0	0	0	27	
Jul	10	0	10	37	7	11	0	0	0	0	25	
Aug	0	2	8	78	5	17	0	0	0	0	22	
Sep	6	0	11	50	3	13	0	0	0	0	37	
Oct	3	0	18	101	7	38	0	0	0	0	41	
Nov	1	0	9	39	3	25	0	0	0	0	31	
Dec	2	1	14	24	5	23	0	0	0	0	25	
	40	3	98	430	69	214	0	0	0	0	284

Table 8:

The total number of profiles, duplicates, good profiles (flag value assigned 1 or 2), profiles (flag value assigned 3 or 4), and the number of flags are shown broken down by month for 1991 data. 


Mon	Total   Dups   RT    DM     Good 	Bad 	     	flag of
     Profiles		         Profiles     Profiles    1    2   3  4

Jan	1559	 231   758   570   1176	        152	1164  12  117 35	
Feb	1695	 281   843   571   1288	        126	1275  13   94 32	
Mar	1676	 398   673   605   1129	        149     1121   8   90 59	
Apr	1130     205   552   373    786	        139      776  10   77 62	
May	1195     203   643   349    850         142	 844   6  115 27	
Jun	1375	 257   555   563    983		135	 975   8   84 51	
Jul	1571	 198   748   625   1219		154	1217   2   99 55	
Aug	1217	 227   496   494    837		153	 821  16  119 34	
Sep	1240	 244   550   446    898	         98      874  24   57 41	
Oct	1048	 180   385   483    770	         98      757  13  88  10	
Nov	1102	 162   528   412    855 	 85      826  29  77   8	
Dec	1083	 249   385   449    773	         61      759  14  45  16
	_____	____   ____  ____   ____	 __	____  __  __  __

	
       15891    2835   7116  5940  11564       1492     1409 155 1062 430

Table 9:

The total number of reasons given to 1991 data for each profile with a flag value of 3 or 4. A profile may contain more than one reason (i.e., bad surface feature in upper 3.7m and hit bottom feature). 


Month	FS	ML	CT	TG	NG	TI	SF	PE	TE	UR	TO	
Jan	0	6	22	42	12	54	6	2	0	0	14	
Feb	0	1	13	24	14	60	11	0	0	0	13	
Mar	0	0	22	88	9	50	8	0	0	0	2	
Apr	2	0	26	34	19	46	17	0	0	0	6	
May	0	0	14	64	18	36	4	1	0	0	9	
Jun	0	0	14	45	12	55	8	1	0	0	6	
Jul	0	2	18	65	18	31	10	0	0	0	17	
Aug	0	1	15	103	7	18	2	3	0	0	6	
Sep	0	0	10	56	7	27	0	0	0	0	2	
Oct	0	1	5	53	7	28	0	0	0	0	6	
Nov	0	0	7	14	9	48	0	0	0	0	7	
Dec	0	1	6	9	14	29	0	1	0	0	3	
	2	12	172	597	146	482	66	8	0	0	91