TITLE:        XBT Data Collected Aboard RV Polar Duke January -
              February 1993
AUTHOR:       CM Lascara, RC Smith, D Menzies 
CCPO Technical Report No. 93-03
SIO Reference Series No. 93-42
Palmer LTER Contribution No. 29

  From 8 January - 7 February 1993, a multidisciplinary cruise was conducted 
aboard the RV Polar Duke as part of the Palmer Long-Term Ecological Research 
(LTER) program off the Antarctic Peninsula.  Stations were occupied at 
specified grid locations (Figure 1) within the Palmer LTER survey grid 
(Waters and Smith, 1992).  The cruise departed on 1 January and returned to
Palmer Station, Antarctica (7 February).
  Temperature profiles were collected using a Sippican,Inc. MK-9 expendable bathythermograph (XBT) system.  Upon return from the cruise, the XBT data were
processed by LTER personnel at the Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography
(CCPO).  Tapes of these data at one-meter resolution have been sent to the
National Oceanographic Data Center.