**Update Information for MBLT Report**

1)  *Location of Data:* The latest tripod/mooring data is available from
    Fran Lightsom. Data can be downloaded from her online data storage
    site at <http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/starbell/Boston/Boston.htm>.
    (Weather data is not always updated until a request is put in for
    it, so check with her on the status of data if anything is missing.)
    Sediment transport excel files and honjo trap photos are available
    from Michael Casso or Mike Bothner. River streamflow data is
    downloadable from <http://nwis.waterdata.usgs.gov/ma/nwis/discharge>
    (see the supporting observations page for station numbers) -- this
    data downloads with a header, for the m-files to load the
    tab-delineated data into Excel and resave in the format of the
    RIVER_modified.xls files currently in the report.

2)  *Concatenation of Data:* Use CMGTool (a Matlab Toolbox installed on
    this machine) to concatenate append new hourly averaged data to the
    concatenated data files (see the concat_data.html page in the data
    report)

3)  *Mooring Log:* Andree Ramsey can update the "cut" mooring log for
    the report (see the mooring log page).

4)  *Updating the HTML:* **[DO NOT]{.underline}** use Dreamweaver, Front
    Page, or other HTML software to edit the html pages. Government
    regulations require a certain format and style of html, and the code
    automatically generated in these programs tends to screw this up.
    The only pages that should need to be updated are the sites A and B
    data download pages, which will need the new individual mooring data
    files, and anything Brad modifies -- I would suggest editing in
    Wordpad, or if you are unfamiliar with html ask Donna Newman or
    another member of the computer group to help (trust me, they won't
    mind helping).

5)  *Plot generation:* All plots are generated with Matlab -- the main
    command program is "master_mblt.m". I've tried to make the programs
    as streamlined as was reasonable, but I'm sure you'll find some bugs
    -- I would run master_mblt.m command by command rather than as a
    single program.

6)  *Plot modification:* Once plots have been generated (as .pdf's) they
    need to be cleaned up in Adobe Acrobat. Some plots are in landscape
    form, and need to be rotated. All plots but the data coverage ones
    need to be made accessible (this is a menu option in Acrobat -- if
    you are using a "just out of the box" version of Acrobat 5, you will
    need to download the "Make Accessible" patch from Adobe's website to
    activate this option. For some reason, making the data coverage
    plots accessible causes parts of the plot to disappear, so it is not
    necessary.)

7)  *Plot concatenation:* After individual plots have been modified in
    Acrobat, you can use the insert pages command to add them to the
    proper concatenated versions which link in the data report.
    Individual year plots can then be moved to the PLOTS/BY_YEAR
    subdirectory.

8)  *Tidal Analysis:* Tables for individual deployments are created as
    text files, and need to be "Opened as PDF" in Acrobat to convert
    them. They can then be appended to the proper concatenated pdf's.
    The comparison tables (generated as text files as well) need to be
    loaded into Excel, the cells containing dates need to be changed to
    date format, and any other "cleaning up" (column width, significant
    digits, etc) needs to happen. They can then be saved as a pdf
    directly from Excel.

9)  *Principal Axes Tables:* Tables of principal axes are saved as text
    files, and need to be opened within Excel and converted to pdf's
    before being concatenated by depth/instrument type (point current
    meter/ADCP).