Chief Scientist: Dave Young
PI: Ken Brink
cruise: TTN-042
ship: R.V. Thomas Thompson
PI-Note: Please contact either of the following Investigators
before using any of these data in your own analysis.
Dr. Kenneth Brink Dr. Craig Lee
Dept. of Physical Oceanography, MS-21 University of Washington
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Applied Physics Laboratory
Woods Hole, MA 02543 1013 NE 40th St.
Seattle, WA 98105-6698
kbrink@whoi.edu craig@apl.washington.edu
(508) 289-2535 (voice) (206) 685-7656 (voice)
(508) 457-2181 (fax) (206) 543-6785 (fax)
Please refer to the WWW page matisse.whoi.edu/arabsea/arabsea.html for more
information about the project and seasoar.
Parameters Descriptions Units
time decimal days (start time Jan 1, 1995)
lat Latitude N
long Longitude E
press pressure decibars
temp temperature degrees Centigrade
sal salinity PSU
sigth Sigma Theta km/m^3
oxy oxygen (Langdon Sensor) volts
fl1 Fluorescence (Chlorophyll A) Volts
fl2 Fluorescence (Dissolved Organic Matter) Volts
PAR photosythetically available radiation quanta/sec/cm^2
xmiss Transmission Beam C/m
FLAG Flag value - a 12 row number where each row represents a
variable as described above
The FLAG value can be set to a number 0-9 they represent
0: not present in this data set
1: present, engineering units (e.g. volts)
2: converted to physical units
3: "final calibration" (in good faith)
4: quality controlled
5:
6:
7:
8: suspicious (i.e. undetermined, but probably bad)
9: bad