Temperature and salinity from buoys: data format

FASTEX Central Archive Data Set Page Temperature and salinity from buoys: data set format

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Temperature and salinity data from BUOY messages

Organization of the file :
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Each data line contains 10 fields, separated by spaces. The contents and sizes
of the 10 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 Salinity Measurement Method                        WMO tab 002033i4    -999
  8 Depth                                              m              i4        
  9 Water temperature at this depth                    deg. C         f6.1  -999
 10 Water salinity at this depth                                      f7.2  -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=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