TABLE: TYPE
TYPE -- Data_Type field, and Bytes 3-4 of Stream_Ident use this data type code
| CODE
| MEANING
|
| AR |
Animal mounted recorder |
| B3 |
BUFR TM 315003 |
| BA |
BATHY message |
| BF |
Undulating Oceanographic Recorder (e.g. Batfish CTD) |
| BO |
Bottle |
| BT |
general BT data |
| CD |
CTD down trace |
| CT |
CTD data, up or down |
| CU |
CTD up trace |
| DB |
Drifting buoy |
| DD |
Delayed mode drifting buoy data |
| DM |
Delayed mode version from originator |
| DT |
Digital BT |
| IC |
Ice core |
| ID |
Interpolated drifting buoy data |
| IN |
Ship intake samples |
| MB |
MBT |
| MC |
CTD and bottle data are mixed for the station |
| MI |
Data from a mixed set of instruments |
| ML |
Minilog |
| OF |
Real-time oxygen and fluorescence |
| PF |
Profiling float |
| RM |
Radio message |
| RQ |
Radio message with scientific QC |
| SC |
Sediment core |
| SG |
Thermosalinograph data |
| ST |
STD data |
| SV |
Sound velocity probe |
| TE |
TESAC message |
| TG |
Thermograph data |
| TK |
TRACKOB message |
| TO |
Towed CTD |
| TR |
Thermistor chain |
| XB |
XBT |
| XC |
Expendable CTD |