The RBRCTD measures conductivity, water temperature and seawater pressure.
It was installed along with the SBECTD sensor on the 12m node at approximately 11 m depth and ran for over a year (though it fouled fairly soon after deployment).
Most of the data parameters include valus for the mean and median value as well as the standard deviation of the variable. The table below shows the field name suffix used to differentiate amoung the different values:
| Field name | Description |
|---|---|
| _mean | The mean value of the variable over the averaging period |
| _m50 | The median value of the variable over the averaging period |
| _std | The standard deviation of the variable over the averaging period |
| _length | The number of valid data points collected over the averaging period |
Here is the list of field names:
| Field name | Description | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Year | The year the data were collected | n/a |
| Yday | Decimal year day | UTC, January 1 at 00:00 is 1.0 |
| MO | The month the data was collected | UTC |
| DA | The day the data were collected | UTC |
| HH | The hour the data were collected | UTC |
| MM | The minute the data were collected | UTC |
| SS | The second the data were collected | UTC |
| lrec_rbrctd | Total number of records collected during averaging period | n/a |
| twater_rbrctd | ||
| cond_rbrctd | ||
| press_rbrctd |
RBR XR-420 CTDm
Updated: 09/19/07 jjf