I have transferred data from 11 current meter moorings to the pub/incoming folder at ftp.nodc.noaa.gov. The data are in fu1_fu9.tar, which is a unix tar file containing 39 data files and a file containing the DDF information (fu1_fu95.ddf). The data file names are included in the DDF information. A copy of fu1_fu9.ddf is appended: A. Originator Identification 1. NOAA-PMEL-OCRD 7600 Sand Point Way NE Bin C15700 Seattle, WA 98115-0070 2. TOGA 3. US/French moorings 4. FU1 FU2 FU3 FU4 FU5 FU6 FU6B FU7 FU7B FU8 FU9 5. Buoy 6. USA, USA 7. 29/03/91 - 24/12/93 8. No 9. Yes 10. Paul Freitag (206) 526-6727 B. Scientific Content NAME-DATA FIELD REPORTING INSTRUMENT OTHER INST. DATA PROCESSING UNITS TYPE & MODEL INFO TECHNIQUES Wind Vector m/s AMP PMEL manufactured 2-hour with RM Young vector average propeller/vane or hourly data vector average of 6 min. of data at top of hour. Current Vector cm/s EG&G Savonious rotor 1-hour Model 610 and vane vector average Current Vector cm/s EG&G Orthogonal rotors 2-hour Model 630 vector average Air Temperature degrees C AMP Rotronics MP-100 1 or 2-hour average of spot samples Air Temperature degrees C AMP YSI thermistor 2-hour average of spot samples Water Temperature degrees C AMP YSI thermistor 1 or 2-hour scalar average Water Temperature degrees C Seadata YSI thermistor Hourly Model average of TR-2 2 or 4 spot samples Water Temperature degrees C Sea-Bird Hourly SBE-16 average of Seacat 2, 4 or 12 spot samples Water Temperature degrees C MTR YSI thermistor Hourly (Minature average of Temperature 4 spot Recorder) samples Relative Humidity % AMP Rotronics MP-100 1-hour scalar average C. DATA FORMAT 1. Record types Header record 1: Contains buoy name (4 bytes), spaces(4 bytes) nominal location (8 bytes), minutes between records (8 bytes), spaces (6 bytes), name of program that created the file (6 bytes), number of additional header records (6 bytes). sample: FU5 0_165E 60.0 JOINNH 2 Header record 2: The word "DEPTH" followed by seven spaces, and then a depth for each field in the data records. Velocity data records contain pairs of zonal and meridional components so in the depth record there are two entries of every depth. In meteorological data files, the "depth" values are negative, indicating that they are heights above the sea surface. Sample: DEPTH 200.0 200.0 250.0 250.0 300.0 300.0 Header record 3: The word "FLAGS" followed by seven spaces, and then a flag used to indicate missing data for each field in the data records. Sample: FLAGS -999.99 -999.99 -999.99 -999.99 -999.99 -999.99 Data records: All subsequent records. Time, date, 1 to 16 data values, record number. The time/date in each record indicates the beginning time for the hourly or daily average. (Except 1-hourly winds are averages beginning 3 minutes before the indicated time, ending 3 minutes after.) Each velocity record contains a pair of meridional and zonal components for every depth on the mooring for which any valid current meter data have been recovered. Each temperature record contains a water temperature value for every depth for which any temperature data have been recovered. Each meteorological record contains zonal wind velocity, meridional wind velocity, wind speed and direction, air temperature, SST (optionally), and relative humidity (optionally). 2. File organization All data of a given type for a single deployment are in one file. For the most part, data have either been recorded at 1-hourly intervals or reduced from their basic sampling intervals to hourly averages. In some cases, because of long sampling intervals, 1-hourly averaged data could not be created from the basic data. The files with the "_10m" appended to the extension and some of the meteorological data files contain data recorded at 2-hourly intervals. First 4 characters of the file name indicate the mooring the instrument was deployed on and the extension (vel,tmp,met) indicates the type of data contained in the file. extension type of data vel current velocity tmp water temperature met meteorological data vel_10m current velocity acquired at 10m (2-hourly) tmp_10m temperature acquired at 10m (2-hourly) 3. FORTRAN 4. Responsible Computer Specialist -- Margie McCarty (206) 526-6745 See A1. for address. Data record formats: a. Current velocity files fu1.vel contains 5 pairs of zonal and meridional current values from these depths and in this order: 100m, 150m, 200m, 250m, 300m. Contents - HR,MI,DA,MO,YR,UU,VV,UU,VV,UU,VV,UU,VV,UU,VV, NN. Format - 1X,2I2,1X,3I2,10F8.2,I6 Missing or bad UU,VV filled with -999.99 fu2.vel contains 3 pairs of zonal and meridional current values from these depths and in this order: 10m, 50m, 100m. Contents - HR,MI,DA,MO,YR,UU,VV,UU,VV,UU,VV,NN. Format - 1X,2I2,1X,3I2,6F8.2,I6 Missing or bad UU,VV filled with -999.99 fu3.vel, fu7.vel, and, fu7b.vel contain 6 pairs of zonal and meridional current values from these depths and in this order: 50m, 100m, 150m, 200m, 250m, 300m. Contents - HR,MI,DA,MO,YR,UU,VV,UU,VV,UU,VV,UU,VV,UU,VV, UU,VV,NN. Format - 1X,2I2,1X,3I2,12F8.2,I6 Missing or bad UU,VV filled with -999.99 fu4.vel contains 3 pairs of zonal and meridional current values from these depths and in this order: 50m, 100m, 200m. Contents - HR,MI,DA,MO,YR,UU,VV,UU,VV,UU,VV,NN. Format - 1X,2I2,1X,3I2,6F8.2,I6 Missing or bad UU,VV filled with -999.99 fu5.vel contains 3 pairs of zonal and meridional current values from these depths and in this order: 200m, 250m, 300m. Contents - HR,MI,DA,MO,YR,UU,VV,UU,VV,UU,VV,NN. Format - 1X,2I2,1X,3I2,6F8.2,I6 Missing or bad UU,VV filled with -999.99 fu6.vel contains 3 pairs of zonal and meridional current values from these depths and in this order: 10m, 82m, 182m. Contents - HR,MI,DA,MO,YR,UU,VV,UU,VV,UU,VV,NN. Format - 1X,2I2,1X,3I2,6F8.2,I6 Missing or bad UU,VV filled with -999.99 fu6b.vel contains 1 pair of zonal and meridional current values from 10m. Contents - HR,MI,DA,MO,YR,UU,VV,NN. Format - 1X,2I2,1X,3I2,2F8.2,I6 Missing or bad UU,VV filled with -999.99 fu9.vel contains 5 pairs of zonal and meridional current values from these depths and in this order: 50m, 100m, 150m, 200m, 250m. Contents - HR,MI,DA,MO,YR,UU,VV,UU,VV,UU,VV,UU,VV,UU,VV, NN. Format - 1X,2I2,1X,3I2,10F8.2,I6 Missing or bad UU,VV filled with -999.99 fu1.vel_10m, fu3.vel_10m, fu5.vel_10m, fu7.vel_10m, fu7b.vel_10m, and fu9.vel_10m contain 1 pair of zonal and meridional current values from 10m. These data are 2 hourly vector averages recorded by VMCM. Contents - HR,MI,DA,MO,YR,UU,VV,NN. Format - 1X,2I2,1X,3I2,2F8.2,I6 Missing or bad UU,VV filled with -999.99 b. Temperature files fu1.tmp contains 15 temperature values from these depths and in this order: 1m, 3m, 11m, 30m, 51m, 75m, 101m, 125m, 151m, 175m, 201m, 225m, 250m, 300m, 500m Contents - HR,MI,DA,MO,YR,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW, TW,TW,TW,NN. Format - 1X,2I2,1X,3I2,15F6.2,I6 Missing or bad TW filled with -99.99 fu2.tmp contains 15 temperature values from these depths and in this order: 3m, 11m, 30m, 51m, 75m, 101m, 125m, 150m, 175m, 201m, 225m, 250m, 300m, 400m, 500m Contents - HR,MI,DA,MO,YR,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW, TW,TW,TW,NN. Format - 1X,2I2,1X,3I2,15F8.3,I6 Missing or bad TW filled with -99.999 fu3.tmp contains 14 temperature values from these depths and in this order: 3m, 11m, 30m, 51m, 75m, 101m, 125m, 151m, 175m, 201m, 250m, 300m, 400m, 500m Contents - HR,MI,DA,MO,YR,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW, TW,TW,NN. Format - 1X,2I2,1X,3I2,14F8.3,I6 Missing or bad TW filled with -99.999 fu4.tmp contains 13 temperature values from these depths and in this order: 1m, 11m, 30m, 51m, 75m, 101m, 125m, 150m, 175m, 201m, 300m, 400m, 500m Contents - HR,MI,DA,MO,YR,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW, TW,NN. Format - 1X,2I2,1X,3I2,13F8.3,I6 Missing or bad TW filled with -99.999 fu5.tmp contains 6 temperature values from these depths and in this order: 1m, 200m, 250m, 300m, 400m, 500m Contents - HR,MI,DA,MO,YR,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,NN. Format - 1X,2I2,1X,3I2,6F8.3,I6 Missing or bad TW filled with -99.999 fu5.tmp_10m contains 10m temperature values. These data are 2 hourly scalar averages. Contents - HR,MI,DA,MO,YR,TW,NN. Format - 1X,2I2,1X,3I2,F6.2,I6 Missing or bad TW filled with -99.99 fu6.tmp contains 15 temperature values from these depths and in this order: 1m, 5m, 11m, 33m, 57m, 83m, 107m, 132m, 157m, 183m, 207m, 232m, 282m, 382m, 482m Contents - HR,MI,DA,MO,YR,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW, TW,TW,TW,NN. Format - 1X,2I2,1X,3I2,15F8.3,I6 Missing or bad TW filled with -99.999 fu6b.tmp contains 16 temperature values from these depths and in this order: 1m, 5m, 11m, 30m, 50m, 75m, 100m, 125m, 150m, 175m, 200m, 225m, 250m, 300m, 400m, 500m Contents - HR,MI,DA,MO,YR,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW, TW,TW,TW,TW,NN. Format - 1X,2I2,1X,3I2,16F8.3,I6 Missing or bad TW filled with -99.999 fu7.tmp contains 14 temperature values from these depths and in this order: 1m, 11m, 30m, 51m, 75m, 101m, 125m, 151m, 175m, 201m, 250m, 300m, 400m, 500m Contents - HR,MI,DA,MO,YR,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW, TW,TW,NN. Format - 1X,2I2,1X,3I2,14F8.3,I6 Missing or bad TW filled with -99.999 fu7b.tmp contains 15 temperature values from these depths and in this order: 1m, 11m, 30m, 51m, 75m, 101m, 125m, 151m, 175m, 201m, 225m, 250m, 300m, 400m, 500m Contents - HR,MI,DA,MO,YR,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW, TW,TW,TW,NN. Format - 1X,2I2,1X,3I2,15F8.3,I6 Missing or bad TW filled with -99.999 fu8.tmp contains 13 temperature values from these depths and in this order: 1m, 5m, 10m, 30m, 50m, 75m, 100m, 150m, 200m, 225m, 250m, 300m, 400m Contents - HR,MI,DA,MO,YR,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW, TW,NN. Format - 1X,2I2,1X,3I2,13F8.3,I6 Missing or bad TW filled with -99.999 fu9.tmp contains 15 temperature values from these depths and in this order: 1m, 11m, 30m, 51m, 75m, 101m, 125m, 151m, 175m, 201m, 225m, 251m, 301m, 400m, 500m Contents - HR,MI,DA,MO,YR,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW, TW,TW,TW,NN. Format - 1X,2I2,1X,3I2,15F8.3,I6 Missing or bad TW filled with -99.999 c. Meteorological data files Files fu1.met, fu4.met, fu6.met, fu6b.met, fu7.met, fu7b.met, fu8.met, and fu9.met contain zonal and meridional winds at 4m above sea surface, wind speed, wind direction, air temperature (3m), and relative humidity (3m). Contents - HR,MI,DA,MO,YR,UU,VV,SS,DD,TA,RH,NN. Format - 1X,2I2,1X,3I2,3F8.2,F6.1,2F6.2,I6 Missing or bad UU,VV,SS filled with -999.99 Missing or bad DD filled with -999.9 Missing or bad TA,RH filled with -99.99 File fu2.met contains zonal, meridional winds at 4m above sea surface, wind speed, wind direction, air temperature (3m), and sea surface temperature at 1 m depth. These data are 2-hourly means. Contents - HR,MI,DA,MO,YR,UU,VV,SS,DD,TA,TW,NN. Format - 1X,2I2,1X,3I2,3F8.2,F6.1,2F6.2,I6 Missing or bad UU,VV,SS filled with -999.99 Missing or bad DD filled with -999.9 Missing or bad TA,TW filled with -99.99 d. Daily meteorological data files There were not any hourly meteorological or sea surface temperature data retrieved for moorings FU3 and FU5. Daily averages were transmitted to the lab in realtime, and these values are supplied in files fu3.met and fu5.met. N.B. The time given for each data point represents the time at the beginning of the 24 hour averaging interval. File fu3.met contains zonal and meridional components of wind at 4m above sea surface, wind speed, wind direction, air temperature (3m), SST (1m depth) and relative humidity (3m above sea surface). Contents - HR,MI,DA,MO,YR,UU,VV,SS,DD,TA,TW,RH,NN. Format - 1X,2I2,1X,3I2,3F8.2,F6.1,2F6.2,F6.1,I6 Missing or bad UU,VV,SS filled with -999.99 Missing or bad DD filled with -999.9 Missing or bad TA,TW filled with -99.99 Missing or bad RH filled with -99.9 File fu5.met contains zonal and meridional components of wind at 4m above sea surface, wind speed, wind direction, air temperature (3m), and relative humidity (3m). Contents - HR,MI,DA,MO,YR,UU,VV,SS,DD,TA,RH,NN. Format - 1X,2I2,1X,3I2,3F8.2,F6.1,F6.2,F6.1,I6 Missing or bad UU,VV,SS filled with -999.99 Missing or bad DD filled with -999.9 Missing or bad TA filled with -99.99 Missing or bad RH filled with -99.9 HR: GMT hour MI: Minute DA: Day MO: Month YR: Year UU: Zonal component of wind/current VV: Meridional component of wind/current SS: Wind speed DD: Wind direction TW: Water temperature TA: Air temperature RH: Relative humidity NN: Record number D. INSTRUMENT CALIBRATION Instrument Date of Last Organization Frequency Calibration PMEL Other EG&G610 (VACM) WHOI Never calibrated VACM temperature 91 - 93 X NWRCC Before and after use EG&G630 (VMCM) EG&G Never calibrated VMCM temperature 91 - 93 X NWRCC Before and after use Seadata TR-2 91 - 93 NWRCC Before and after use Sea-Bird SBE-16 Seacat Temperature 91 - 93 NWRCC Before and after use Minature Temperature Recorder 91 - 93 X Before and after use Rotronics MP-100 relative humidity 91 - 93 X Before and after use Rotronics MP-100 air temperature 91 - 93 X Before and after use APPENDIX 1. MOORING LOCATIONS AND DATES: Mooring Latitude Longitude Start End FU1 0 0.3'N 165 01.1'E 29 Mar 91 05 Aug 91 FU2 0 0.9'S 155 24.2'E 28 Aug 91 28 Feb 92 FU3 0 0.6'N 165 00.8'E 07 Aug 91 07 Feb 92 FU4 0 0.3'N 155 58.8'E 01 Mar 92 13 Sep 92 FU5 0 1.7'N 164 51.5'E 08 Feb 92 12 Aug 92 FU6 0 0.1'S 156 02.3'E 15 Sep 92 24 Dec 92 FU6B 0 0.5'N 156 00.2'E 08 Feb 93 09 Mar 93 FU7 0 0.6'N 164 59.2'E 24 Aug 92 20 Nov 92 FU7B 0 0.0' 165 00.4'E 13 Dec 92 15 Mar 93 FU8 0 0.3'N 156 01.1'E 10 Mar 93 18 Dec 93 FU9 0 0.1'N 165 00.1'E 23 Mar 93 24 Dec 93 APPENDIX 2. TYPE OF INSTRUMENT USED FOR EACH DATA FIELD fu1.vel All depths UU,VV: VACM fu1.vel_10m 10m UU,VV: VMCM fu1.tmp 1m TW: AMP, YSI thermistor 125m, 175m, 225m, 500m TW: TR 250m, 300m TW: VACM temperature All other depths TW: Seacat temperature fu1.met UU,VV,SS,DD: AMP, RM Young anemometer TA: AMP, Rotronics MP-100 RH: AMP, Rotronics MP-100 fu2.vel All depths UU,VV: VACM fu2.tmp 125m, 175m, 225m, 250m, 300m, 400m, 500m TW: MTR All other depths TW: Seacat temperature fu2.met UU,VV,SS,DD: AMP, RM Young anemometer TA: AMP, YSI thermistor 1m TW (SST): AMP, YSI thermistor fu3.vel All depths UU,VV: VACM fu3.vel_10m 10m UU,VV: VMCM fu3.tmp 125m, 175m, 400m, 500m TW: MTR 250m, 300m TW: VACM temperature All other depths TW: Seacat temperature fu3.met UU,VV,SS,DD: AMP, RM Young anemometer TA: AMP, Rotronics MP-100 1m TW: AMP, YSI thermistor RH: AMP, Rotronics MP-100 fu4.vel All depths UU,VV: VACM fu4.tmp 1m TW: AMP, YSI thermistor 125m, 175m, 300m, 400m, 500m TW: MTR All other depths TW: Seacat temperature fu4.met UU,VV,SS,DD: AMP, RM Young anemometer TA: AMP, Rotronics MP-100 RH: AMP, Rotronics MP-100 fu5.vel All depths UU,VV: VACM fu5.vel_10m 10m UU,VV: VMCM fu5.tmp 1m TW: Seacat temperature 400,500m TW: MTR All other depths TW: VACM temperature fu5.tmp_10m 10m TW: VMCM temperature fu5.met UU,VV,SS,DD: AMP, RM Young anemometer TA: AMP, Rotronics MP-100 RH: AMP, Rotronics MP-100 fu6.vel All depths UU,VV: VACM fu6.tmp 107, 157, 207, 232, 282, 382, 482m TW: MTR All other depths TW: Seacat temperature fu6.met UU,VV,SS,DD: AMP, RM Young anemometer TA: AMP, Rotronics MP-100 RH: AMP, Rotronics MP-100 fu6b.vel 10m UU,VV: VACM fu6b.tmp 125m, 175m, 225m, 250m, 300m, 400m, 500m TW: MTR All other depths TW: Seacat temperature fu6b.met UU,VV,SS,DD: AMP, RM Young anemometer TA: AMP, Rotronics MP-100 RH: AMP, Rotronics MP-100 fu7.vel All depths UU,VV: VACM fu7.vel_10m 10m UU,VV: VMCM fu7.tmp 125m, 175m, 400m, 500m TW: MTR 250m, 300m TW: VACM temperature All other depths TW: Seacat temperature fu7.met UU,VV,SS,DD: AMP, RM Young anemometer TA: AMP, Rotronics MP-100 RH: AMP, Rotronics MP-100 fu7b.vel All depths UU,VV: VACM fu7b.vel_10m 10m UU,VV: VMCM fu7b.tmp 125m, 175m, 225m, 400m, 500m TW: MTR 250m, 300m TW: VACM temperature All other depths TW: Seacat temperature fu7b.met UU,VV,SS,DD: AMP, RM Young anemometer TA: AMP, Rotronics MP-100 RH: AMP, Rotronics MP-100 fu8.tmp 225m, 250m, 300m, 400m TW: MTR All other depths TW: Seacat temperature fu8.met UU,VV,SS,DD: AMP, RM Young anemometer TA: AMP, Rotronics MP-100 RH: AMP, Rotronics MP-100 fu9.vel All depths UU,VV: VACM fu9.vel_10m 10m UU,VV: VMCM fu9.tmp 125m, 175m, 225m, 251m, 301m, 400m, 500m TW: MTR All other depths TW: Seacat temperature fu9.met UU,VV,SS,DD: AMP, RM Young anemometer TA: AMP, Rotronics MP-100 RH: AMP, Rotronics MP-100