TAPE GEN DATE, MO-DA-YR 04-07-81  TIME- 04:03:26 PM        FLOAT GROUP, URI/GSO       FROM MASTER POSITION TAPE - LDEPOS  4492
        TAPE FOR DISTRIBUTION OF FLOAT TRACKS  -  University of Rhode Island                                                    
                                                                                                                                
        Tape characteristics:                                                                                                   
          800 BPI                                                                                                               
          ASCII                                                                                                                 
          Lateral parity bit ignored (i.e. neither even nor odd parity)                                                         
        Tape format - 3 records per float per day - tape ordered by float number and within float by day.                       
        Record #1  FORMAT(12F10.3)                                                                                              
           1. Latitude at 0000Z                                                                                                 
           2. Longitude at 0000Z                                                                                                
           3. Latitude at 0800Z                                                                                                 
           4. Longitude at 0800Z                                                                                                
           5. Latitude at 1600Z                                                                                                 
           6. Longitude at 1600Z                                                                                                
           7. U at 0000Z                                                                                                        
           8. V at 0000Z                                                                                                        
           9. U at 0800Z                                                                                                        
          10. V at 0800Z                                                                                                        
          11. U at 1600Z                                                                                                        
          12. V at 1600Z                                                                                                        
          Latitude and longitude are given in degrees and decimal degrees.  North and east are positive,                        
          and south and west are negative.  Velocity is in centimeters per second.  Missing data is assigned 999.0.             
        Record #2  FORMAT(9F10.3)                                                                                               
           1. Temperature at 0000Z                                                                                              
           2. Pressure at 0000Z                                                                                                 
           3. Temperature at 0000Z                                                                                              
           4. Pressure at 0000Z                                                                                                 
           5. Temperature at 0000Z                                                                                              
           6. Pressure at 0000Z                                                                                                 
           7. Actual temperature (on temperature days only)                                                                     
           8. Actual pressure (on pressure days only)                                                                           
           9. Telemetry transmission time                                                                                       
           Temperature is given in degrees Centigrade.  Pressure is given in decibars.  Missing data is assigned -1.0.          
           Transmission time is in seconds.                                                                                     
        Record #3  FORMAT(8I6,6F10.3,2I6)                                                                                       
           1. Float number                                                                                                      
           2. Julian day                                                                                                        
           3. Security code of operator who prepared the track                                                                  
           4. Julian day float was tracked                                                                                      
           5. Record # of clock correction in TCKTCK file (used only since 4520)                                                
           6. Doppler flag (1=Doppler correction used, 0=not used) (used only since 4520)                                       
           7. Number of points used to smooth for positions (used only since 4520)                                              
           8. Number of points used to smooth for telemetry (used only since 4520)                                              
           9. Temperature rate of change at 0000Z                                                                               
          10. Pressure rate of change at 0000Z                                                                                  
          11. Temperature rate of change at 0800Z                                                                               
          12. Pressure rate of change at 0800Z                                                                                  
          13. Temperature rate of change at 1600Z                                                                               
          14. Pressure rate of change at 1600Z                                                                                  
          15. Not used                                                                                                          
          16. Interpolated signal time of arrival flag                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
        Rates of change are per day.  Missing data for rates of change is assigned 999.0.  If signal time of arrival was        
        interpolated, bit 3=1 for 0000Z, bit 2=1 for 0800Z, and bit 1=1 for 1600Z.                                              
        End of file is indicated by a float number of -1 (first variable of record #3), followed by an EOF mark.