ctd_s

ASIT Beam SBECTD summary data

Deployed at about 4m below the surface at the air-sea interaction tower

Contact hsosik@whoi.edu to use these data.

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_ctd	Total number of records collected during averaging period	n/a
twater_ctd
saln_ctd
cond_ctd
dpth_ctd

Mounted horizontally across the beams near the inside of the south leg of the ASIT; facing downward between the beams.

No pump is installed.

Instrument Serial Number	Date Deployed	Date Retreived	Cal date
37si35147-3437	9/3/2004	9/9/2005
37si35147-3437	5/8/2006	9/18/2006	1/24/2006
37si35147-3437	9/27/2006	2/28/2007	1/24/2006
37si35147-3437	12/13/2007	7/9/2008	4/4/2007
37si35147-3437	7/31/2008	10/24/2008	4/4/2007
37si51889-6448	10/24/2008	7/14/2009	8/26/2008
37si51889-3437	7/14/2009	5/11/2010	4/4/2007
37si51889-6448	5/11/2010		8/26/2008 (inhouse 1/25/2010)
37si35174-3437	11/16/2010		?/??/????

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