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About WMO Code Table 4770

Code Table 4770: XrXr -Recorder Type
This table encodes the various recorders used to log temperatures from the instruments listed.

Code Recorder
01 Sippican strip chart recorder
02 Sippican MK2A/SSQ-61
03 Sippican MK-9
04 Sippican AN/BHQ-7/MK8
05 Sippican MK-12
06 Sippican MK-21
07 Sippican MK-8 Linear Recorder
08 Sippican MK-10
10 Sparton SOC BT/SV Processor Model 100
11 Lockheed-Sanders Model OL5005
20 Argos XBT-ST
21 CLS-ARGOS / Protecno XBT-ST Model-1
22 CLS-ARGOS / Protecno XBT-ST Model-2
30 BATHY Systems SA-810
31 Scripps Metrobyte controller
32 Murayama Denki Z-60-16 III
33 Murayama Denki Z-60-16 II
34 Protecno ETSM2
35 Nautilus Marine Service NMS-XBT
40 TSK MK-2A
41 TSK MK-2S
42 TSK MK-30
43 TSK MK-30N
45 TSK MK-100
46 TSK MK-100 compatible recorder for both XBT and XCTD
47 TSK MK-1130A XCTD recorder
48 TSK AXBT receiver MK-300
49 TSK MK-150 Compatible recorder for both XBT and XCTD
50 JMA ASTOS
60 ARGOS communications, sampling on up transit.
61 ARGOS communications, sampling on down transit.
62 Orbcomm communications, sampling on up transit.
63 Orbcomm communications, sampling on down transit.
64 Iridium, communications sampling on up transit
65 Iridium communications, sampling on down transit
70 CSIRO Devil-1 XBT acquisition system
71 CSIRO Devil-2 XBT acquisition system
72 TURO/CSIRO Quoll XBT acquisition system
80 Applied Microsystems Ltd., MICRO-SVT&P
81 Sea Mammal Research Unit, Univ. St. Andrews, UK, uncorrected salinity from a sea mammal mounted instrument
82 Sea Mammal Research Unit, Univ. St. Andrews, UK, salinity from a sea mammal mounted instrument
99 Unknown
127 Missing value

Note: All unassigned numbers are reserved.