p10sta.txt (File 6)

This file provides station inventory information for each of the 94 stations occupied during the R/V Thomas G. Thompson cruise along WOCE Section P10. Each line of the file contains an expocode, section number, station number, cast number, sampling date (month/date/year), sampling time, latitude, longitude, and sounding depth. The file is sorted by station number and can be read by using the following FORTRAN 90 code [contained in stainv.for (File 2)]:

     
            INTEGER stat, cast, depth 
            CHARACTER expo*11, sect*3, date*10, time*4
            REAL latdcm, londcm
       
            read (1, 10, end=999) expo, sect, stat, cast, date, time,
          1 latdcm, londcm, depth 
      
      10    format (A11, 7X, A3, 4X, I3, 5X, I1, 3X, A10, 2X, A4, 3X,
          1 F7.3, 3X, F8.3, 3X, I4)

Stated in tabular form, the contents include the following:

Variable	Variable type	Variable width	Starting column	Ending column
expo	Character	11	1	11
sect	Character	3	19	21
stat	Numeric	3	26	28
cast	Numeric	1	34	34
date	Character	10	38	47
time	Character	4	50	53
latdcm	Numeric	7	58	63
londcm	Numeric	8	67	74
depth	Numeric	4	78	81

The variables are defined as follows:

expo - is the expedition code of the cruise;

sect - is the WOCE section number (i.e., P10);

stat - is the station number;

cast - is the cast number;

date - is the sampling date (month/day/year);

time - is the sampling time [Greenwich mean time (GMT)];

latdcm - is the latitude of the station (in decimal degrees; negative values indicate the Southern Hemisphere);

londcm - is the longitude of the station (in decimal degrees; negative values indicate the Western Hemisphere);

depth - is the sounding depth of the station (in meters).