Bathythermal data set description page
BATHY - Report of bathythermal observation
Organization of the file:
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Each data line contains 23 fields, separated by spaces. The contents and sizes
of the 23 fields that appear in each data record are as follows (Unit for Unit
or Code table (from the Manual oncodes (WMO-No. 306), International codes
volume I.2, part B), Form for FORTRAN Format, Miss for Missing value) :
No Parameter Unit Form. Miss
-- --------- ---- ----- ----
1 Timestamp for the creation of the row YYYYMMDDHHMISS a14
2 WMO station or platform identifier a14
3 Latitude dec.degr f8.3
4 Longitude dec.degr f8.3
5 Collecting date/time (UTC) YYYYMMDDHHMISS a14
6 Quality control flag (0=good, 1=bad) i4 -999
7 Air temperature deg. C f6.1 -999
8 Wind direction degr f6.1 -999
9 Wind speed m/s f6.1 -999
10 Units used for wind speed WMO tab 002002i4 -999
11 Indicator for digitization WMO tab 002032i4 -999
12 Number of measurements under sea level i4 -999
13 Depth m i4 -999
14 Water temperature at this depth degC i4 -999
15 Indicator for the method of current measurements WMO tab 002030i4 -999
16 Direction of surface currents degr i4 -999
17 Speed of surface currents m/s i4 -999
18 Total depth m i4 -999
19 Bottom indicator WMO tab 022228i4 -999
20 Instrument type for water temperature profile meas WMO tab 022067i4 -999
urement with fall rate equation coefficients
21 Recorder types for water temperature profile measu WMO tab 022068i4 -999
rement
22 Quality control flag for LAT i4 -999
23 Quality control flag for LON i4 -999
Data quality flags can take one of the following values :
automatic quality control procedures: 0=good 1=suspect 2=bad 3=not controlled
manually added flags: 5=good 6=suspect 7=bad 8=estimated 9=missing or not
controlled
Quality control procedures are explained in the document GTS_QC_handbook.ps that
can be found on the FASTEX anonymous ftp serveur (cnrm-ftp.cnrm.meteo.fr), in
the directory pub-fastex/doc
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Updated : 25 Jan 1999