Abstract
This paper presents some preliminary results from analysis of our high-resolution (30–35 km/s FWHM) spectra of the Lyman α forest region in the z = 3.78 QSO 2000-330. These spectra were obtained at the Anglo-Australian Telescope over several observing seasons and have been analysed by fitting multiple-cloud Voigt profiles to Lyman series and heavy-element absorption lines. Two specific issues are addressed here: (i)The distribution of column densities, N(H I), and velocity dispersions, b, for hydrogen clouds in the interval zabs = 3.43–3.78;(ii)Heavy-element abundances in a system at zabs = 3.1723.
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