Station_List

Data Object Station List

contact PIs:

name	title
Dr Kenneth Coale	Principal Investigator
Dr Ken Johnson	Co-Principal Investigator
Dr Doug Mackie	Contact

Dataset description

IronExI - Station List

Acquisition description

Processing description

BCO-DMO Processing Notes
Generated from original spreadsheet "FeX1 Edited log.xls
Original file was downloaded on 16June2008 from http://www.mbari.org/sofex/IronEx_I.htm

BCO-DMO Processing Notes/Edits
- Parameter headers edited to conform to BCO-DMO convention
- Event generated from YearDayTime
- Original event# preserved as orig_event_number
- Date reformatted to YYYYMMDD
- Time reformatted to HHMM
- Lat/Lon converted to decimal degrees
- In/Out changed to Patch (In/Out of Patch)
- nd added for no data values and blank fields

Field Names List

Parameter	Description	Units
date	Date UTC	YYYYMMDD
time	Time UTC	HHMM
lat	latitude, negative denotes South	decimal degrees
lon	longitude, negative denotes West	decimal degrees
event	Unique event number (Generated by BCO-DMO)	YYYYDAYHHMM
activities_and_comments	free field text description of event	text
yrday	Day of year	integer
Patch	Patch In/Out Flag Refers to sampling in ("I") or out ("O") of the established Iron enriched patch, based on SF6 measurements	text
orig_event_number	Event number from original log file Preserved for reference	YYYY_DDD
Station	Station id	text

Platforms List

R/V Columbus Iselin CI_IronExI

This document is created from the content of the BCO-DMO metadata database. 2010-03-17 21:33:08

info app: /home/bco/dbase-v2 v.100108 CLC
Data URL: http://data.bco-dmo.org/jg/serv/BCO/Fe_Synthesis/IronEx_I/Station_List.