a10sta.txt (File 5)

This file provides station inventory information for each of the 112 stations occupied during the R/V Meteor Cruise 22/5. 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 77 code [contained in stainv.for (File 2)]:

    
           INTEGER stat, cast, depth 
           CHARACTER expo*10, 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	10	1	10
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 (i.e., 06MT22/5);
sect	-	is the WOCE section number (i.e., A10);
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).