JGOFS Underway Data Format Document
                          for BEACHBASH cruises
                            December 2, 2005

                     University of Hawaii at Manoa
                             1000 Pope Road
                         Honolulu, Hawaii 96822

    BEACHBASH 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., bb1uw2.dat contains the underway data
set from BEACHBASH-1).

    The files are self-explanatory; one column is written for each
measured parameter.  Missing data are filled with -9. Salinity,
temperature & chloropigment 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- 46   f8.5	Salinity [PSS-78]
        48- 55   f8.5	Temperature [ITS-90]
        57- 64   f8.4	Chloropigment [ug/l]
        67- 69     a3	Quality flags for salinity - chloropigment