I have transferred data from 6 current meter moorings to the pub/incoming folder at ftp.nodc.noaa.gov. The data are in em2_wm3.tar, which is a unix tar file containing 18 data files and a file containing the DDF information (em2_wm3.ddf). The data file names are included in the DDF information. A copy of em2_wm3.ddf is appended: A. Originator Identification 1. NOAA-PMEL-OCRD 7600 Sand Point Way NE Bin C15700 Seattle, WA 98115-0070 2. TAO 3. Arrays EM2,EM3,CM2,CM3,WM2,WM3 4. EM2 EM3 CM2 CM3 WM2 WM3 5. Buoy 6. USA, USA 7. 20/05/96 - 12/06/97 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 1-hour with RM Young vector propeller/vane average Current Vector cm/s EG&G Savonious rotor 1-hour Model 610 and vane vector average Current Vector cm/s EG&G Orthogonal rotors 1-hour Model 630 vector average Current Vector cm/s EG&G Orthogonal rotors 1-hour Model 630 Alpha-Omega retrofit vector average Air Temperature degrees C AMP Rotronics MP-100 1-hour scalar average Water Temperature degrees C AMP YSI thermistor 1-hour scalar average Water Temperature degrees C MTR YSI thermistor Hourly (Minature average of Temperature 8 spot Recorder) samples Water Temperature degrees C Sea-Bird Hourly SBE-16 average of 8 Seacat spot samples Relative Humidity % AMP Rotronics MP-100 1-hour scalar average C. DATA FORMAT 1. Record types Header record 1: Contains buoy name (8 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: EM2 0_110W 60.0 REGROUP 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 10.0 10.0 25.0 25.0 45.0 45.0 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, 6 to 14 data values, record number. The time/date in each record indicates the beginning time for the hourly or daily average. 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 hourly meteorological record contains zonal wind velocity, meridional wind velocity, wind speed, wind direction, air temperature, and relative humidity. Daily meteorological records contain zonal wind velocity, meridional wind velocity, wind speed, wind direction, air temperature, sea surface temperature and relative humidity (cm1.met) or they contain zonal wind velocity, meridional wind velocity, wind speed, wind direction, sea surface temperature, and relative humidity (em1.met). 2. File organization All data of a given type for a single deployment are in one file. First 4 characters of the file name indicate the mooring the instrument was deployed on and the extension indicates the type of data contained in the file: extension type of data vel current velocity tmp water temperature met meteorological data 3. FORTRAN 4. Responsible Computer Specialist -- Margie McCarty (206) 526-6745 See A1. for address. Data record formats: a. Current velocity files em2.vel, em3.vel, and cm2.vel contain 5 pairs of zonal and meridional current values from these depths and in this order: 10m, 25m, 45m, 80m, 120m. 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 cm3.vel contains 4 pairs of zonal and meridional current values from these depths and in this order: 10m, 25m, 45m, 80m. Contents - HR,MI,DA,MO,YR,UU,VV,UU,VV,UU,VV,UU,VV,NN. Format - 1X,2I2,1X,3I2,8F8.2,I6 Missing or bad UU,VV filled with -999.99 wm2.vel and wm3.vel contain 4 pairs of zonal and meridional current values from these depths and in this order: 10m, 50m, 100m, 200m. Contents - HR,MI,DA,MO,YR,UU,VV,UU,VV,UU,VV,UU,VV,NN. Format - 1X,2I2,1X,3I2,8F8.2,I6 Missing or bad UU,VV filled with -999.99 b. Temperature files em2.tmp and cm2.tmp contain 13 temperature values from these depths and in this order: 1m, 5m, 10m, 25m, 45m, 60m, 80m, 100m, 120m, 140m, 200m, 300m, 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,3I2,13F6.2,I6 Missing or bad TW filled with -99.99 em3.tmp contains 10 temperature values from these depths and in this order: 10m, 25m, 45m, 60m, 80m, 100m, 120m, 140m, 200m, 500m Contents - HR,MI,DA,MO,YR,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,NN. Format - 1X,2I2,1X,3I2,10F6.2,I6 Missing or bad TW filled with -99.99 cm3.tmp contains 12 temperature values from these depths and in this order: 1m, 5m, 10m, 25m, 45m, 60m, 80m, 100m, 120m, 140m, 200m, 300m Contents - HR,MI,DA,MO,YR,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW, NN. Format - 1X,2I2,1X,3I2,12F6.2,I6 Missing or bad TW filled with -99.99 wm2.tmp contains 11 temperature values from these depths and in this order: 1m, 5m, 10m, 30m, 50m, 100m, 150m, 175m, 200m, 225m, 250m Contents - HR,MI,DA,MO,YR,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,TW,NN. Format - 1X,2I2,1X,3I2,11F6.2,I6 Missing or bad TW filled with -99.99 wm3.tmp contains 14 temperature values from these depths and in this order: 1m, 5m, 10m, 30m, 50m, 75m, 100m, 125m, 150m, 175m, 200m, 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,3I2,14F6.2,I6 Missing or bad TW filled with -99.99 c. Meteorological data files Files em2.met, cm2.met, cm3.met, and wm3.met contain zonal, 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 d. Daily meteorological data files There were not any hourly meteorological or sea surface temperature data retrieved for moorings EM3 and WM2. Daily averages were transmitted to the lab in real time, and these values are supplied in files em3.met and wm2.met. N.B. The time given for each data point represents the time at the beginning of the 24 hour averaging interval. File em3.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 wm2.met contains zonal and meridional components of wind at 4m above sea surface, wind speed, wind direction, air temperature and relative humidity (both 3m above sea surface). 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 96 - 97 X NWRCC Before and after use EG&G630 (VMCM) EG&G Never calibrated VMCM temperature 96 - 97 X NWRCC Before and after use EG&G610 (AOCM) WHOI Never calibrated with Alpha-Omega Retrofit Minature Temperature Recorder 96 - 97 X Before and after use Sea-Bird SBE-16 Seacat Temperature 96 - 97 NWRCC,SBE Before and after use Rotronics MP-100 relative humidity 96 - 97 X Before and after use Rotronics MP-100 air temperature 96 - 97 X Before and after use APPENDIX 1. MOORING LOCATIONS AND DATES: Mooring Latitude Longitude Start End EM2 0 0.1'S 109 55.2'W 20 May 96 10 Oct 96 EM3 0 4.4'N 110 01.0'W 11 Oct 96 22 Feb 97 CM2 0 1.6'N 139 55.4'W 15 Jun 96 04 Sep 96 CM3 0 0.2'S 140 02.0'W 05 Sep 96 14 Apr 97 WM2 0 0.2'N 164 59.4'E 12 Jul 96 31 Jan 97 WM3 0 0.5'N 165 01.4'E 01 Feb 97 13 Jun 97 APPENDIX 2. TYPE OF INSTRUMENT USED FOR EACH DATA FIELD em2.vel 10m UU,VV: VMCM All other depths UU,VV: VACM em2.tmp 1m TW: AMP, YSI thermistor 120m: VACM All other depths: MTR em2.met UU,VV,SS,DD: AMP, RM Young anemometer TA: AMP, Rotronics MP-100 RH: AMP, Rotronics MP-100 em3.vel 10m UU,VV: VMCM All other depths UU,VV: VACM em3.tmp 25m TW: VACM temperature All other depths: MTR em3.met UU,VV,SS,DD: AMP, RM Young anemometer TA: AMP, Rotronics MP-100 1m TW: AMP, YSI thermistor RH: AMP, Rotronics MP-100 cm2.vel 10m UU,VV: VMCM 120m UU,VV: AOCM All other depths UU,VV: VACM cm2.tmp 1m TW: AMP, YSI thermistor All other depths: MTR cm2.met UU,VV,SS,DD: AMP, RM Young anemometer TA: AMP, Rotronics MP-100 RH: AMP, Rotronics MP-100 cm3.vel All depths UU,VV: VACM cm3.tmp 1m TW: AMP, YSI thermistor All other depths: MTR cm3.met UU,VV,SS,DD: AMP, RM Young anemometer TA: AMP, Rotronics MP-100 RH: AMP, Rotronics MP-100 wm2.vel 10m, 200m UU,VV: AOCM All other depths UU,VV: VACM wm2.tmp 1m TW: Seacat temperature All other depths: MTR wm2.met UU,VV,SS,DD: AMP, RM Young anemometer TA: AMP, Rotronics MP-100 RH: AMP, Rotronics MP-100 wm3.vel 200m UU,VV: AOCM All other depths UU,VV: VACM wm3.tmp 1m TW: Seacat temperature All other depths: MTR wm3.met UU,VV,SS,DD: AMP, RM Young anemometer TA: AMP, Rotronics MP-100 RH: AMP, Rotronics MP-100