TITLE:        XBT Data Collected Aboard RV Nathanial B. Palmer March -
              May 1993
AUTHOR:       DA Smith RA Locarnini, BL Lipphardt, Jr. and EE Hofmann
CCPO Technical Report No. 93-06
SIO Reference Series No. 93-45
Palmer LTER Contribution No. 32

  From 25 March to  15 May 1993, a multidisciplinary cruise was conducted 
aboard the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer 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 from and returned to Punta
Areanas, Chile.
  Temperature profiles were collected using a Sippican,Inc. MK-12 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.