BEACH Water Column Chemical Data Format Document
                          for C-MORE : SWAC cruises
                              October 15, 2013

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    BEACH water column chemical data are distributed as ASCII flat
files.  An entire cruise's data is contained in one file (e.g.,
swac1.gof contains the data from C-MORE : SWAC-1). For convenience
we have also presented some physical data (i.e. CTD pressure,
temperature, salinity, etc ...) in the swac*.gof files.

    The files are self-explanatory; one column is written for each
measured parameter.  Missing data are filled with -9. A five-line
heading labels each column.  Variables having asterisks in their
heading have a quality flag associated with them. These quality flags
are concatenated as a quality word which is listed as the last eight
variables in each row (either six or seven flags per variable).  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 cast


Data Record Format:

	Column  Format	Item
	 1-  8    i3	Station Number
	 9- 16    i3	Cast Number
	17- 24    i3	Rossette Position
	25- 32  f7.3	Latitude [Degrees North]
	33- 40  f7.3	Longitude [Degrees West] 
	41- 48  f7.1	CTD Pressure (CTDPRS) [Decibars]
	49- 56  f7.3	CTD Temperature  (CTDTMP) [ITS-90]
	57- 64  f7.3	CTD Salinity (CTDSAL) [PSS-78]
	65- 72  f6.1	CTD Oxygen (CTDOXY) [umol/kg]
	73- 80  f7.4	CTD Chloropigment (CTDCHL) [ug/l]
	81- 88  f7.3	Potential Temperature (THETA) [ITC-90]
	89- 96  f7.4	Potential Density (SIGMA) [kg/m3]
	97-104  f6.1	Bottle Oxygen [umol/kg]
       105-112  f7.1	Dissolved Inorganic Carbon (DIC) [umol/kg]
       113-120    i4	Alkalinity [ueq/kg]
       121-128  f6.2	Phosphate (PHSPHT) [umol/kg]
       129-136  f6.2	Nitrate + Nitrite (NO2+NO3) [umol/kg]
       137-144  f6.2	Silicate (SILCAT) [umol/kg]
       145-152  f6.2	Low-level Nitrogen (LLN) [umol/kg]
       153-160  f6.2	Low-level Phosphorus (LLP) [umol/kg]
       161-168  f6.2	Fluorometric Chlorophyll a (CHL A.) [ug/l]
       169-176  f6.2	Pheopigments (PHEO) [ug/l]
       177-184  f6.3	Heterotrophic Bacteria (H.Bact) [10**5/ml]
       185-192  f6.3	Prochlorococcus (P.Bact) [10**5/ml]
       193-200	f6.3	Synechococcus (S.Bact) [10**5/ml]
       201-208  f6.3	Eukaryotes (E.bact) [10**5/ml]
       209-216  f6.2	Methane (CH4) [nmol/kg]
       217-224  f6.2	Nitrous Oxide (N2O) [nmol/kg]
       227-232    a6	Quality flags for CTD temperature - Sigma
       235-240    a6	Quality flags for bottle oxygen - Silicate
       244-248    a5	Quality flags for LLN - H.Bact
       252-256    a5	Quality flags for P.Bact - N2O