Dear Professor Evensen, Meirion has asked me to email you with the details for accessing the AMMP gridded bathymetry data via ftp. The details are as follows: ftp to ' ftp.pol.ac.uk ' login as anonymous and use your email id as a password once logged in cd to /pub/bodc/requests/paw/ammp the command " ls " will show you the files available. The directory contains the following files: 1. ASCII version of the gridded bathymetry file: ammp_bathy.dat 2. Word for Windows format documentation file including a description of the data file format: ammp.doc The directory also contains 3 Postscript format files which contain the images for the annexes refered to in the documentation file. bathy_tr.ps - shows the trackline control coverage bathy_ctr.ps - 100m interval contours derived from the bathymetric grid bathy_limits - the geographic limits of the various data sets used to produce the gridded data set. Please let me know if you have any problems accessing the files. Yours sincerely, Pauline Weatherall ***************************************************************************** Ms. Pauline Weatherall British Oceanographic Data Centre CCMS Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory Bidston Observatory Birkenhead Merseyside CH43 7RA UK Email: paw@ccm.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)151 653 8633 *****************************************************************************