Information about the Owens Data

General Information

• The salinity profiles have been checked for spurious points as well as sensor drift.
• The drift correction has not been applied to each profile so ther is still a "use at your own risk" warning on them.
• Some original files had data thrown away and so filled the data with "null" values. These profiles have been removed from the data included here. Also if a temperature or salinity was missing, the pressure level has been removed from the profiles here.
• Information about the float is available in the pcode variables. These include the following. (See the codes list in the documents section.)
  AVP$ - The avergae pressure at which the float drifted
  AVT$ - the average temperature recorded while the float drifted at depth
  CSC1 - the name of the originator of the data
  PRO1 - the name of the project under wich the data were collected.