Inventory File Format

There is a row in the inventory for every NetCDF file in the data set. The inventories are text files that can be opened in any spreadsheet or word processing package. There is one line (or row) per file, and a variety of fields (or columns) that specify the location of the file, the time and position ranges of the data file, and the parameters that it contains. All inventory tables contain the same fields for file location, data position and time, but they may contain a variety of fields for the data parameters. Inventory fields are tab separated and a space in the table means the data file does not contain that particular parameter. Columns after "site" exhibit the existence (1) or nonexistence (0) of that variable in the netCDF file.

Example:
One line of data from inventory file shown with corresponding headings
(spanned over several lines for viewing ease):

cd name	file path	compressed file name	file name	woce date min	woce date max	lat min	lat max
wocemet	ftp://ftp.coaps.fsu.edu/pub/woce/rv/NBP/S__04I-06/		NBP.960607005woce.nc	19960607	19960611	-65.6	-59.5

lon westmost	lon eastmost	depth min	depth max	EXPOCODE	temp min	temp max	wind_spd min	wind_spd max	site	PL_HD	PL_CRS	PL_SPD
85.21	93.25	0	0	320696_3					R/V Meteo	1	1	1

PL_WDIR	PL_WSPD	DIR	P	T	TW	TD	RH	Q	PRECIP	RRATE	RAD	WX	TCA	LMCA	ZCL	LCT	MCT	HCT
1	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Please email wocemet@coaps.fsu.edu if you have questions.