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
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