a08sta.dat (File 4)

This file provides station inventory information for each station occupied during the R/V Meteor cruise along WOCE Section A8. 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*9, 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 (A9, 4X, A3, 3X, 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	9	1	9
sect	Character	3	14	16
stat	Numeric	3	20	22
cast	Numeric	1	28	28
date	Character	10	32	41
time	Character	4	44	47
latdcm	Numeric	7	51	57
londcm	Numeric	8	61	68
depth	Numeric	4	72	75

The variables are defined as follows:

expo - is the expocode 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).