Underway Data Format Document
                          for AGOURON cruises
                             June 28, 2011

                      University of Hawaii at Manoa
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    AGOURON underway data was collected using a SeaBird SBE-21 Seacat
thermosalinograph system and a Seapoint fluorometer. They were
screened for errors and processed to 1-minute averages. Each file
contains one full profile (e.g., a7uw.dat contains the underway data
set from AGOURON-7).

    The files are self-explanatory; one column is written for each
measured parameter.  Missing data are filled with -9. Salinity,
temperature & fluorescence have quality flags associated with them. These
quality flags are concatenated as a quality word which is listed as the
last variable in each row.  The values each digit can assume and their
meanings follows:


Quality Indicators:

	Flag  Meaning
	 1    not quality controled
	 2    good data
	 3    suspect (i.e.  questionable) data
	 4    bad data
	 5    missing data
	 9    variable not measured during this cruise


Data Record Format:

	Column  Format	Item
	 1-  4	   i4	Year
	 6-  8	   i3	Julian day [GMT]
	10- 11	   i2	Hour [GMT]
	13- 14	   i2	Minute [GMT]
	16- 25  f10.6	Latitude [Degrees North]
	27- 37 	f11.6	Longitude [Degrees West]
	39- 44   f6.2   Speed over ground [Knotts]
        46- 53   f8.5	Salinity [PSS-78]
        55- 62   f8.5	Temperature [ITS-90]
        64- 71   f8.4	Fluorescence [ug/l]
        74- 76     a3	Quality flags for salinity - fluorescence