NetCDF parameter

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ATOMIX subgroup	Parameter (short) Name	CF parameter	Standard name	Units of measurement	Long name	Dir positive	Reference datum	Data code	fillValue	validMin	validMax	NetcDF type
All	TIME	1	time	days, or Days since YYYY-MM-DDT00:00:00Z	Decimal day		days since 1950-01-01 00:00 UTC		-999999			float		Why not seconds since 1950-01-01 00:00
All	PRES	1	sea_water_pressure	dbar	Sea water pressure, equals 0 at sea-level	down			-999999			float
All	DEPTH	1	depth	m		down	sea surface	Z	-999999	-5	12000	float
All	LATITUDE	1	latitude	degrees_north			WGS84 geographic coordinate system		-999999	-90	90	float
All	LONGITUDE	1	longitude	degrees_east			WGS84 geographic coordinate system		-999999	-180	180	float
All	TEMP	1	sea_water_temperature	degrees_Celsius	sea water temperature in-situ ITS-90 scale			T	-999999	-2.5	40	float
All	CNDC	1	sea_water_electrical_conductivity	S m-1				C	-999999	0	50000	float
All	PSAL	1	sea_water_practical_salinity	1				S	-999999	0	41	float
All	DENS	1	sea_water_density	kg m-3				D	-999999			float
All	BVFSQ	1	square_of_brunt_vaisala_frequency_in_sea_water	(rad s-1)2				T	-999999	0	10000	float		Copied from CF: The phrase "square_of_X" means X*X. Frequency is the number of oscillations of a wave per unit time. Brunt-Vaisala frequency is also sometimes called "buoyancy frequency" and is a measure of the vertical stratification of the medium.
All	CSPD	1	water_speed	m s-1				V	-999999	0	10	float
All	PITCH	1	platform_pitch_angle	degree					-999999	-180	180	float
All	HEADING	1	platform_yaw_angle	degree		clockwise	true North		-999999	0	360	float
All	HEADING_MAG	1	platform_yaw_angle	degree		clockwise	magnetic North		-999999	0	360	float
All	ROLL	1	platform_roll_angle	degree					-999999	-180	180	float
All	EPSI	1	specific_turbulent_kinetic_energy_dissipation_in_sea_water	W kg-1	dissipation rate of turbulent kinetic energy per unit mass in sea water estimated from individual shear probes / beams			T	-999999	1.00E-12	1.00E+00	float		Copied from CF standard table: "Specific" means per unit mass. "Turbulent kinetic energy" is the kinetic energy of chaotic fluctuations of the fluid flow.
All	EPSI_FINAL	0	specific_turbulent_kinetic_energy_dissipation_in_sea_water	W kg-1	final dissipation rate of turbulent kinetic energy per unit mass in sea water (averaged using all accepted shear probes / beams / or best estimate from single channel)				-999999			double		This is the average (over probes, beams), final estimate
All	K_TEMP	0	water_vertical_diffusivity_of_heat	m2 s-1				T	-999999	1.00E-12	100	float
All	K_RHO	0	water_diapycnal_diffusivity	m2 s-1				T	-999999	1.00E-12	100	float
All	KAPPA_TEMP	0	seawater_molecular_diffusivity_temperature	m2 s-1				P	-999999	1.00E-09	1.00E-05	float
All	KVISC	0	kinematic_viscosity_of_water	m2 s-1	Kinematic viscosity of (sea) water			P	-999999	1.00E-08	1.00E-04	float
All	dTEMP_dZ	0	derivative_of_seawater_temperature_wrt_z	degrees_Celsius m-1				T	-999999	0	100	float
All	PROFILE	0	unique_identifier_for_each_profile_feature_instance_in_this_file	1					-999999			int		Copied from IMOS
All	SECTION_NUMBER	0	unique_identifier_for_each_section_of_data_from_timeseries	1	A unique indentifier counter defining sections of the time series from the fast (or slow) channels extracted for dissipation estimates				-999999			int		More useful for ADV/ADCP.
All	PSPD_REL	1	platform_speed_wrt_sea_water	m s-1	Platform speed with respect to sea water				-999999			float
Shear Probes	SHEAR	0	sea_water_velocity_shear	s-1	rate of change of cross axis sea water velocity along transect measured by shear probes				-999999			double
Shear Probes	VIB	0	platform_vibration	1	platform vibration detected by piezo-accelerometers				-999999			double
Shear Probes	ACC	0	platform_acceleration	m s-2	platform acceleration detected by accelerometers				-999999			double
Shear Probes	SH_SPEC	0	shear_probe_spectrum	s-2 cpm-1	cyclic wavenumber spectrum of sea water velocity shear				-999999	1.00E-12	1.00E+00	float		Matrix where every column represents a shear probe.
Shear Probes	SH_SPEC_CLEAN	0	shear_probe_spectrum_clean	s-2 cpm-1	cleaned cyclic wavenumber spectrum of sea water velocity shear				-999999			float
Shear Probes	A_SPEC	0	acceleration_sensor_spectrum	m2 s-4 cpm-1	acceleration spectrum from accelerometers				-999999	1.00E-12	1.00E+00	float		Matrix where every column represents a acceleration sensor.
Shear Probes	AP_SPEC	0	vibration_sensor_spectrum	1	vibration spectrum from vibration sensors				-999999	1.00E-12	1.00E+12	float		Matrix where every column represents a vibration sensor.
Shear Probes	SH_A_SPEC	0	shear_and_acceleration_cross-spectral_matrix		Complex cross-spectral matrix of shear and acceleration				-999999			float
Shear Probes	SH_AP_SPEC	0	shear_and_vibration_cross-spectral_matrix		Complex cross-spectral matrix of shear and vibration				-999999			float
ADV/Shear probes	KMAX	0	maximum_wavenumber_used_for_estimating_turbulent_kinetic_energy_dissipation	cpm	maximum wavenumber for integration of shear spectrum				-999999	0	1000	float
Shear probes	FOM	0	figure_of_merit	-	Figure of merit of shear spectrum relative to the model spectrum. It is MAD multiplied by the sqrt( degrees of freedom) of the spectra				-999999			float
ADV/Shear probes	MAD	0	mean_absolute_deviation	-	mean absolute deviation of shear spectrum relative to the model spectrum				-999999			float
ADV/Shear probes	DOF	0	degrees_of_freedom_of_spectrum						-999999	0	500	float
ADV/Shear probes	FREQ	0	frequency	Hz					-999999	0	1.00E+04	float
ADV/Shear probes	FREQ_W	0	angular_frequency	rad s-1					-999999	0	1.00E+04	float
ADV/Shear probes	KCYC	0	cyclic_wavenumber	cpm	wavenumber along the direction of instrument motion in cycles per meter				-999999	0	1.00E+04	float
ADV	MAD_SQRT_DOF	0	mean_absolute_deviation_multiplied_sqrt_of_degrees_of_freedom						-999999	0	1000	float
ADV	KMIN	0	minimum_wavenumber_used_for_estimating_turbulent_kinetic_energy_dissipation	cpm	minimum wavenumber for integration of shear spectrum				-999999	0	1000	float
ADV	DIR_CSPD	0	direction_of_water_speed	degree		counterclockwise	east		-999999	0	360	float
ADV	ROT_AXIS	0	axis_of_rotation_from_east_to_x		Axis i,j.k in geographical coordinates that must be used to rotate from geographical to flow frame of reference				-999999	-1	1	float
ADV	ROT_ANGLE	1	angle_of_rotation_from_east_to_x	degree	Used to rotate from geographical to flow frame of reference via the specified axis_of_rotation	counterclockwise	east		-999999	0	360	float
ADV	ANISO	0	ratio_of_large_turbulence_length_scale_to_smallest_kolmogorov_length	-					-999999	1		float
ADV	UVW_VEL	0	water_velocity_rotated_in_direction_of_water_speed	ms-1	The measurements have been rotated into a frame of reference for which the x (longitudinal) axis coincides with the direction of mean water speed		Background flow	V	-999999	-10	10	float
ADV	UVW_VEL_SPEC	0	power_spectrum_density_of_velocity_in_the_flow_frame_of_reference	(m s-1)2 s	Summation of the spectra across all frequencies is equal to the signal's variance in time-domain.			V	-999999	1.00E-12	1.00E+00	float		Takes less space to simply save the spectra in frequency space. Avoids having a large matrix for the time-variable wavenumber vector
ADV	XYZ_VEL	0	water_velocity_measured_in_instrument_coordinates	ms-1				V	-999999	-10	10	float
ADV	ENU_VEL	0	water_velocity_in_geographical_east_north_up_coordinates	ms-1			Geographical	V	-999999	-10	10	float
ADV	ENU_VEL_DETRENDED	0	detrended_water_velocity_in_geographical_east_north_up_coordinates	ms-1	Includes surface wave and turbulence contributions			V	-999999	-5	5	float
ADV	UVW_VEL_DETRENDED	0	detrended_water_velocity_in_the_flow_frame_of_reference	ms-1	Includes surface wave and turbulence contributions. The UVW velocities are those rotated in the direction of mean water speed using a 3D axis of rotation			V	-999999	-5	5	float
ADV	UVW_VEL_RMS	0	root_mean_square_of_velocity_in_flow_frame_of_reference	ms-1	An rms calculation on a detrended timeseries (mean removed) is the same as the standard deviation			V	-999999	0	5	float
ADV	UVW_VEL_STD	0	standard_deviation_of_velocity_in_the_flow_frame_of_reference	ms-1				V	-999999	0	5	float
ADV	TAYL	0	ratio_of_rms_turb_U_to_water_speed	-				T	-999999	0	10000	float
ADV	SNR	0	signal_noise_ratio_from_each_acoustic_beam	decibel				A	-999999	0	150	float
ADV	ABSIC	0	backscater_intensity_from_each_acoustic_beam	count		AlongBeam_distance		A	-999999	0		float
ADV	CORRN	0	noise_correlation_percent_from_each_acoustic_beam	percent				E	-999999	0	100	float
ADV	N_VEL_INSTRUMENT	0	number_of_unique_velocity_instruments	-				D	-999999	1		int
ADV	N_VEL_COMPONENT	0	number_of_velocity_component	-				D	-999999	1	3	int
ADV	SPEC_SLOPE	0	estimated_spectral_slope_of_fitted_wavenumbers_in_logspace	-	Nonlinear least square fit to find most likely spectral slope			T	-999999			float
ADV	SPEC_SLOPE_CI_LOW	0	low_limit_confidence_interval_of_spectral_slope_in_logspace	-				T	-999999			float
ADV	SPEC_SLOPE_CI_HIGH	0	high_limit_confidence_interval_of_spectral_slope_in_logspace	-				T	-999999			float
ADV/ADCP	dUCUR_dZ	0	derivative_of_eastward_velocity_wrt_z	s-1				V	-999999	-10	10	float
ADV/ADCP	dVCUR_dZ	0	derivative_of_northtward_velocity_wrt_z	s-1				V	-999999	-10	10	float
ADV/ADCP	dWCUR_dZ	0	derivative_of_upward_velocity_wrt_z	s-1				V	-999999	-5	5	float
ADV/ADCP	HEIGHT_AB	1	height_above_bottom	m		up	bottom	D	-999999	0	12000	float
ADV/ADCP	BURST_NUMBER	0	unique_identifier_for_each_burst_in_this_file	-				D	-999999	1		int		Meant to accomade burst sampling programs. A burst may be longer than # of samples required for a spectra or structure fct calc
ADV/ADCP	PERG	0	percentage_of_samples_good	percent				E	-999999	0	100	float
ADV/ADCP	N_BEAMS	0	beam_number_of_the_instrument					D	-999999	1	10	int
ADCP	ABSI	0	backscatter_intensity_from_each_acoustic_beam	decibel		AlongBeam_distance			-999999	0		float
ADCP	ABSI5	0	backscatter_intensity_from_acoustic_beam_5	decibel		AlongBeam_distance			-999999	0		float
ADCP	CORR	0	correlation_magnitude_from_each_acoustic_beam			AlongBeam_distance			-999999	0		float
ADCP	CORR5	0	correlation_magnitude_from_acoustic_beam_5			AlongBeam_distance			-999999	0		float
ADCP	R_DIST	0	distance_from_sensor_along_beams	m		outwards from transducer	sensor		-999999	0		dimension
ADCP	HEIGHT_AS	1	height_above_sensor	m		up	sensor	Z	-999999	-12000	12000	float
ADCP	THETA	0	beam_angle_from_z_axis	degrees		clockwise	vertical axis		-999999	0	90	float
ADCP	BIN_SIZE	0	instrument_measurement_volume_bin_size	m				E	-999999	0	100	float
ADCP	RVEL	0	radial_velocity_of_scatterers_toward_instrument_in_each_beam	m/s		towards instrument		V	-999999	-10	10	float
ADCP	RVEL_FLAGS	0	data_flags_for_radial_velocities
ADCP	RVEL5	0	radial_velocity_of_scatterers_toward_instrument_in_beam_5	m/s		towards instrument		V	-999999	-5	5	float
ADCP	RVEL_DETRENDED	0	detrended_radial_velocity_of_scatterers_towards_instrument	m/s	High-frequency content of the velocity signal, which may contain contributions from surface waves, turbulence, and vibrations etc	towards instrument		V	-999999	-10	10	float		Description of calculation in meta data?
ADCP	R_DEL	0	along-beam_separation_distance_over_which_DLL_is_evaluated	m					-999999	0		float
ADCP	R_MAX	0	maximum_separation_distance_over_for_DLL_regression	m					-999999	0		float
ADCP	DLL	0	second_order_structure_function	m2/s2		AlongBeam_distance			-999999	0		float
ADCP	DLL_N	0	number_of_velocity_difference_samples_in_DLL_mean	count					-999999	0		int		Can be used as QA criterion
ADCP	DLL_FLAGS	0	data_flags_for_dll						-999999			float		Can be used as QA criterion for including in regression
ADCP	C2	0	constant_used_in_conversion_of_DLL_regression_coefficient_to_EPSILON						-999999			float
ADCP	REGRESSION_COUNT	0	number_of_DLL_values_used_in_regression	count					-999999			int		For central-difference scheme, count is the number of del_r evaluate, for forward-difference, there may be multiple instances for each del_r
ADCP	REGRESSION_RSQUARED	0	regression_goodness_of_fit_adjusted_for_number_of_terms	count					-999999			float		standard regression uses 2 terms, modified regression uses 3
ADCP/ADV	EPSI_CI_LOW	0	low_limit_confidence_interval_for_epsilon	W kg-1	95% confidence interval				-999999			float
ADCP/ADV	EPSI_CI_HIGH	0	high_limit_confidence_interval_for_epsilon	W kg-1	95% confidence interval				-999999			float
ADCP	QAx_BDF	0	QA_criterion_x_bad_data_flag	logical					-999999	0	1	logical		Details of the QA criterion in meta data?
ADCP	REGRESSION_COEFF_A0	0	DLL_regression_intercept	m2 s-2					-999999			float		Intercept for the DLL regression
ADCP	REGRESSION_COEFF_A1	0	DLL_regression_coefficient_for_r^2/3	m4/3 s-2					-999999			float		Coefficient for r^2/3 from either standard or modified DLL regression
ADCP	REGRESSION_COEFF_A3	0	DLL_regression_coefficient_for_(r^2/3)^3	s-2					-999999			float		Coefficient for (r^2/3)^3 from modified DLL regression
ADCP	REGRESSION_N
ADCP	REGRESSION_RSQUARED
ADCP
All	L_K	0	kolmogorov_length_scale	m				L	-999999	0	1000	float
All	L_S	0	turbulent_corssin_shear_length_scale	m				L	-999999	0	100000	float
All	L_O	0	turbulent_ozmidov_stratification_length_scale	m				L	-999999	0	100000	float