HOT cruises
                  Meteorological Observation Format
                      
                      University of Hawaii
                      
                         January, 5, 1992
                        
  The Hawaiian Ocean Time-series experiment (HOT)  Meteorological
observation data are stored in ASCII files met1_**.dat (** cruise 
number).  The following explains the data columns.  For more
information please refer to the International Ship Weather Code
specifications. 

    Columns    Contents
    -------    --------
      1        Year
      2        Month
      3        Day
      4        Hour of the day (GMT)
     5-6       Latitude position (degrees and minutes)
     7-8       Longitude position (degrees and minutes)
     9-10      Ship speed (knots) and direction
    11-12      Relative wind speed (knots) and direction
      13       Atmospheric Pressure (mbar or inches of Mercury)                 
      14       Dry Bulb Air Temperature (deg C)
      15       Wet Bulb Air Temperature (deg C)
      16       Sea Surface Temperature (deg C)

  Beginning with cruise 44 a data record with quality byte designators
has been added to this file. The quality word is the left-to-right 
concatenation of required quality bytes for the variables measured
starting with column 9.  They are defined as follows:

 byte value  Definition
     2       Acceptable measurement.
     3       Questionable measurement.
     4       Bad measurement.
     5       Not reported.
     6       Interpolated value.
     7       Not assigned for meteorological data
     8       Not assigned for meteorological data
     9       Not sampled

 In August 2001 the files for cruises before 44 were updated to include
the quality flag designator to make their format consistent with the rest 
of the cruises.