station inventory

a5sta.dat (File 4)


This file provides station inventory information for each of the 112 stations occupied during the R/V Hespérides cruise along WOCE Section A5. Each line of the file contains an expocode (expedition code unique to each cruise), section number, station number, cast number, sampling date (month/day/year), sampling time, latitude, longitude, and sounding depth. The file is sorted by station number and can be read by using the following FORTRAN 77 code (contained in stainv.for, File 2): 


       INTEGER  stat, cast, depth
       REAL latdcm, londcm 
       CHARACTER expo*8, sect*3, date*10, time*4

       read (1, 10, end=999) expo, sect, stat, cast, date, time,
     1 latdcm, londcm, depth

 10    format (A12, 2X, A3, 3X, I3, 5X, I1, 3X, A10, 2X, A4, 4X,
     1 F7.3, 4X, F8.3, 3X, I4)

Stated in tabular form, the contents include the following:
Variable Variable
type		 Variable
width		 Starting
column		 Ending
column
expo Character 12 1 12
sect Character 3 15 17
stat Numeric 3 12 23
cast Numeric 1 29 29
date Character 10 33 42
time Character 4 45 48
latdcm Numeric 7 53 59
londcm Numeric 8 64 71
depth Numeric 4 75 78

The variables are defined as follows:

expo is the unique expedition code of the cruise;
sect is the WOCE section number;
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);

akozyr 06/2000