California Current Planktonic Foraminifera Tow Data: Readme file
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               World Data Center A- Paleoclimatology
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NOTE: PLEASE CITE CONTRIBUTORS WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!


NAME OF DATA SET: California Current Planktonic Foraminifera Tow Data.
LAST UPDATE: 3/1999 (Original Receipt by WDCA Paleo)  
CONTRIBUTOR: Joseph Ortiz, LDEO

IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 1999-016
SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: Ortiz, J., et al, 
California Current Planktonic Foraminifera Tow Data,
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center-A for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series # 1999-016.  
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA.

ORIGINAL REFERENCE: Ortiz, J.D., A.C. Mix,. and R.W. Collier, 1995,
Environmental Control of Living Symbiotic and Asymbiotic Foraminifera 
of the California Current, Paleoceanography, 10, 987-1009, 1995.

GEOGRAPHIC REGION: California Current, Northeast Pacific
PERIOD OF RECORD: Modern

LIST OF FILES: Readme.ortiz1995.txt(this file), Microsoft Word format 
data tables:  table1.ortiz1995.doc, table2.ortiz1995.doc, table3.ortiz1995.doc,
table4.ortiz1995.doc, table5.ortiz1995.doc, table6.ortiz1995.doc. 
Tab-delimited ASCII versions of data tables: table1.ortiz1995.txt, 
table2.ortiz1995.txt, table3.ortiz1995.txt, table4.ortiz1995.txt, 
table5.ortiz1995.txt, table6.ortiz1995.txt.

DESCRIPTION: 
California Current Planktonic Foraminifera Tow Data.
Multiple Opening Closing Net Environmental Sensing System (MOCNESS) 
Plankton Tow Environmental and Foraminifera Data for Small (125-150 mm) 
and Large (>150 mm) Size Classes.