To:   TOGA COARE Flux Community
From: UCI (Djamal Khelif (dkhelif@uci.edu), Sean Burns (spb@uci.edu),
           Carl Friehe (cfriehe@uci.edu))

Subject: Re-processing of NOAA WP-3D data  
Date: February 23, 1998

Dear TOGA COARE Colleagues,

We have re-processed both slow-rate (1-Hz) and fast-rate (40-Hz) data
from the two NOAA WP-3D aircraft in January 1998. The newest (and
last) release date is:
	February 23 1998.

Details and history of the modifications can be found in:
	http://wave.eng.uci.edu/Projects/Toga_Cepex/togacoare.html	
        (Note our permanent WWW address is: http://wave.eng.uci.edu )

A UNIX-compressed ASCII version of the 1-Hz data for each WP-3D flight
has been added. These files contain 21 parameters and average 5 MB per
file. The MATLAB binary files with all parameters are still available.
Both type of files can be down-loaded from our WWW site via http.
They can also be obtained via anonymous ftp:
	ftp wave.eng.uci.edu    (OR ftp 128.200.12.5)
	anonymous               (Name)
	your E-mail address     (Password)
	cd pub/TOGA_COARE/


The fast-rate (40-Hz) data set consists of 364 processed straight and
level runs totalling 364 files (one file per run). These are available
upon request from Carl Friehe at the University of California - Irvine
(cfriehe@uci.edu). For detailed information concerning these data
refer to the WWW site mentioned above and follow the "FAST-RATE
(40-Hz) DATA" link.

This latest version of the UCI-processed WP-3D data are also archived
at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in Asheville, NC
(http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov) and at the National Center for Atmospheric
Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO (http://www.ucar.edu).


Acknowledgements:
We are interested in collaborating with all investigators who work
with these data, and look forward to hearing from you. At a minimum,
we request that you acknowledge the support that made these
measurements possible:

"The turbulence instrumentation development, installation, testing and
processing for the NOAA WP-3D aircraft were done under grant
ATM-9024436 from the National Science Foundation and grant 56GP0154-01
from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to C.
A.  Friehe, D.  Khelif and S. P. Burns at the University of California
at Irvine. They would like to acknowledge the cooperation of the NOAA
Aircraft Operations Center."

Regards,

CARL A. FRIEHE       DJAMAL KHELIF     SEAN P. BURNS

Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of California
Irvine, CA 92697-3975 USA

(714) 824-6159 (CAF)
(714) 824-7437 (DK and SPB)
(714) 824-2249 (Fax)

cfriehe@uci.edu
dkhelif@uci.edu
spb@@uci.edu
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