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                           Water Quality Data Format

The accompanying data file, cruzdata.txt (423KB), consists of space delimited,
formatted fields of water quality data collected in cruises from 1992 to 1994.
In its present form, the data can be imported into most database programs such
as Excel, or it can be read with a script using the following FORTRAN-style
format:
format(a9,a6,f11.4,f12.4,a14,a12,f11.4,f8.4,f12.4,f8.4,f10.4,f10.4,f8.4,f10.4)
Accompanying this data is a short FORTRAN program entitled readdata.f (2KB)
which will read the data for you. It has been compiled (f77) for UNIX (SGI)
into a file called readdata. Metadata for cruises can be found in the Metadata
directory.
 Field Name Full Name                      Description
 Date       Date and Time (24 hour)        Local time of day mm/dd/yy hh:mm
                                           Decimal format, N=Positive,
 Latitude   Decimal Degrees N or S         S=Negative
                                           Decimal format, E=Positive,
 Longitude  Decimal Degrees E or W         W=Negative
                                           Number/letter combination
 StationID  Station ID Code                (sometimes arbitrary)
                                           Cruise names. See cruises on-line
 Source     Cruise/Source Code             for a complete list
 Depth      Sample Depth                   Depth in meters
 Temp       Temperature                    Degrees Celcius
 Salin      Salinity                       Parts per Thousand
 pH         pH                             pH units
            Photosynthetically Active
 PAR        Radiation                      mmol photons/m2/sec (400-700 nm)
 Secchi     Secchi Depth                   Depth in meters
 TSS        Total Suspended Solids         mg/L
 Chlor      Chlorophyll a                  mg/L

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