NetCDF parameter

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Subgroup	Short name	Standard name	Units of measurement	Long name	Dir positive	Reference datum	NetCDF type	validMin	validMax
All	TIME	time	days, or Days since YYYY-MM-DDT00:00:00Z	Decimal day		days since 1950-01-01 00:00 UTC	float
All	PRES	sea_water_pressure	dbar	Sea water pressure, equals 0 at sea-level	down		float
All	DEPTH	depth	m		down	sea surface	float	-5	12000
All	LATITUDE	latitude	degrees_north			WGS84 geographic coordinate system	float	-90	90
All	LONGITUDE	longitude	degrees_east			WGS84 geographic coordinate system	float	-180	180
All	TEMP	sea_water_temperature	degrees_Celsius	sea water temperature in-situ ITS-90 scale			float	-2.5	40
All	CNDC	sea_water_electrical_conductivity	S m-1				float	0	50000
All	PSAL	sea_water_practical_salinity	1				float	0	41
All	DENS	sea_water_density	kg m-3				float
All	BVFSQ	square_of_brunt_vaisala_frequency_in_sea_water	(rad s-1)2				float	0	10000
All	CSPD	water_speed	m s-1				float	0	10
All	PITCH	platform_pitch_angle	degree				float	-180	180
All	HEADING	platform_yaw_angle	degree		clockwise	true North	float	0	360
All	HEADING_MAG	platform_yaw_angle	degree		clockwise	magnetic North	float	0	360
All	ROLL	platform_roll_angle	degree				float	-180	180
All	EPSI	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			float	1.00E-12	1.00E+00
All	EPSI_FINAL	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)			double
All	K_TEMP	water_vertical_diffusivity_of_heat	m2 s-1				float	1.00E-12	100
All	K_RHO	water_diapycnal_diffusivity	m2 s-1				float	1.00E-12	100
All	KAPPA_TEMP	seawater_molecular_diffusivity_temperature	m2 s-1				float	1.00E-09	1.00E-05
All	KVISC	kinematic_viscosity_of_water	m2 s-1	Kinematic viscosity of (sea) water			float	1.00E-08	1.00E-04
All	dTEMP_dZ	derivative_of_seawater_temperature_wrt_z	degrees_Celsius m-1				float	0	100
All	PROFILE	unique_identifier_for_each_profile_feature_instance_in_this_file	1				int
All	SECTION_NUMBER	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			int
All	PSPD_REL	platform_speed_wrt_sea_water	m s-1	Platform speed with respect to sea water			float
Shear Probes	SHEAR	sea_water_velocity_shear	s-1	rate of change of cross axis sea water velocity along transect measured by shear probes			double
Shear Probes	VIB	platform_vibration	1	platform vibration detected by piezo-accelerometers			double
Shear Probes	ACC	platform_acceleration	m s-2	platform acceleration detected by accelerometers			double
Shear Probes	SH_SPEC	shear_probe_spectrum	s-2 cpm-1	cyclic wavenumber spectrum of sea water velocity shear			float	1.00E-12	1.00E+00
Shear Probes	SH_SPEC_CLEAN	shear_probe_spectrum_clean	s-2 cpm-1	cleaned cyclic wavenumber spectrum of sea water velocity shear			float
Shear Probes	A_SPEC	acceleration_sensor_spectrum	m2 s-4 cpm-1	acceleration spectrum from accelerometers			float	1.00E-12	1.00E+00
Shear Probes	AP_SPEC	vibration_sensor_spectrum	1	vibration spectrum from vibration sensors			float	1.00E-12	1.00E+12
Shear Probes	SH_A_SPEC	shear_and_acceleration_cross-spectral_matrix		Complex cross-spectral matrix of shear and acceleration			float
Shear Probes	SH_AP_SPEC	shear_and_vibration_cross-spectral_matrix		Complex cross-spectral matrix of shear and vibration			float
ADV/Shear probes	KMAX	maximum_wavenumber_used_for_estimating_turbulent_kinetic_energy_dissipation	cpm	maximum wavenumber for integration of shear spectrum			float	0	1000
Shear probes	FOM	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			float
ADV/Shear probes	MAD	mean_absolute_deviation	-	mean absolute deviation of shear spectrum relative to the model spectrum			float
ADV/Shear probes	DOF	degrees_of_freedom_of_spectrum					float	0	500
ADV/Shear probes	FREQ	frequency	Hz				float	0	1.00E+04
ADV/Shear probes	FREQ_W	angular_frequency	rad s-1				float	0	1.00E+04
ADV/Shear probes	KCYC	cyclic_wavenumber	cpm	wavenumber along the direction of instrument motion in cycles per meter			float	0	1.00E+04
ADV	MAD_SQRT_DOF	mean_absolute_deviation_multiplied_sqrt_of_degrees_of_freedom					float	0	1000
ADV	KMIN	minimum_wavenumber_used_for_estimating_turbulent_kinetic_energy_dissipation	cpm	minimum wavenumber for integration of shear spectrum			float	0	1000
ADV	DIR_CSPD	direction_of_water_speed	degree		counterclockwise	east	float	0	360
ADV	ROT_AXIS	axis_of_rotation_from_east_to_x		Rotation axis [i,j,k] in the geographical coordinates system used to rotate from the geographical to the analysis frame of reference			float	-1	1
ADV	ROT_ANGLE	angle_of_rotation_from_east_to_x	degree	Angle of rotation from geographical coordinates to the analysis frame of reference around the rotation axis.	counterclockwise	east	float	0	360
ADV	ANISO	ratio_of_large_turbulence_length_scale_to_smallest_kolmogorov_length	-				float	1
ADV	UVW_VEL	water_velocity_in_the_analysis_frame_of_reference	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	float	-10	10
ADV	UVW_VEL_SPEC	power_spectrum_density_of_velocity_in_the_analysis_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.			float	1.00E-12	1.00E+00
ADV	XYZ_VEL	water_velocity_measured_in_instrument_coordinates	ms-1				float	-10	10
ADV	ENU_VEL	water_velocity_in_geographical_east_north_up_coordinates	ms-1			Geographical	float	-10	10
ADV	ENU_VEL_DETRENDED	detrended_water_velocity_in_geographical_east_north_up_coordinates	ms-1	These velocities in the geographical frame of reference have been detrended. The signal may include surface wave, motion contamination, in addition to the turbulence signal			float	-5	5
ADV	UVW_VEL_DETRENDED	detrended_water_velocity_in_the_analysis_frame_of_reference	ms-1	These velocities in the analysis frame of reference have been detrended. The signal may include surface wave, motion contamination, in addition to the turbulence signal			float	-5	5
ADV	UVW_VEL_RMS	root_mean_square_of_velocity_in_the_analysis_frame_of_reference	ms-1	An rms calculation on a detrended timeseries (mean removed) is the same as the standard deviation			float	0	5
ADV	UVW_VEL_STD	standard_deviation_of_velocity_in_the_analysis_frame_of_reference	ms-1				float	0	5
ADV	TAYL	ratio_of_rms_turb_U_to_water_speed	-				float	0	10000
ADV	SNR	signal_noise_ratio_from_each_acoustic_beam	decibel				float	0	150
ADV	ABSIC	backscater_intensity_from_each_acoustic_beam	count		AlongBeam_distance		float	0
ADV	CORRN	noise_correlation_percent_from_each_acoustic_beam	percent				float	0	100
ADV	N_VEL_INSTRUMENT	unique_identifier_for_each_velocity_component	-				int	1
ADV	N_VEL_COMPONENT	unique_identifier_for_each_velocity_instrument	-				int	1	3
ADV	N_SAMPLE	unique_identifier_for_each_sample_within_the_segment	-				int	1
ADV/ADCP	N_SEGMENT	unique_identifier_for_each_segment_in_the_entire_available_timeseries	-				int	1
ADV	SPEC_SLOPE	estimated_spectral_slope_of_fitted_wavenumbers_in_logspace	-	Nonlinear least square fit to find most likely spectral slope			float
ADV	SPEC_SLOPE_CI_LOW	low_limit_confidence_interval_of_spectral_slope_in_logspace	-				float
ADV	SPEC_SLOPE_CI_HIGH	high_limit_confidence_interval_of_spectral_slope_in_logspace	-				float
ADV/ADCP	dUCUR_dZ	derivative_of_eastward_velocity_wrt_z	s-1				float	-10	10
ADV/ADCP	dVCUR_dZ	derivative_of_northtward_velocity_wrt_z	s-1				float	-10	10
ADV/ADCP	dWCUR_dZ	derivative_of_upward_velocity_wrt_z	s-1				float	-5	5
ADV/ADCP	HEIGHT_AB	height_above_bottom	m		up	bottom	float	0	12000
ADV/ADCP	BURST_NUMBER	unique_identifier_for_each_burst	-				int	1
ADV/ADCP	PERG	percentage_of_samples_good	percent				float	0	100
ADV/ADCP	N_BEAM	unique_identifier_for_each_beam					int	1	10
ADCP	ABSI	backscatter_intensity_from_each_acoustic_beam	decibel		AlongBeam_distance		float	0
ADCP	ABSI5	backscatter_intensity_from_acoustic_beam_5	decibel		AlongBeam_distance		float	0
ADCP	CORR	correlation_magnitude_from_each_acoustic_beam	counts		AlongBeam_distance		float	0
ADCP	CORR5	correlation_magnitude_from_acoustic_beam_5	counts		AlongBeam_distance		float	0
ADCP	R_DIST5	distance_from_sensor_along_beam_5	m	Required for 5-beam ADCPs when the 5th is pointing vertically up.	outwards from transducer	sensor	dimension	0
ADCP	R_DIST	distance_from_sensor_along_beams	m		outwards from transducer	sensor	dimension	0
ADCP	HEIGHT_AS	height_above_sensor	m		up	sensor	float	-12000	12000
ADCP	THETA	beam_angle_from_instrument_z_axis	degrees		clockwise	vertical axis	float	0	90
ADCP	BIN_SIZE	instrument_measurement_volume_bin_size	m				float	0	100
ADCP	R_VEL	water_radial_velocity_of_scatterers_towards_instrument	m/s		towards instrument		float	-10	10
ADCP	R_VEL5	water_radial_velocity_of_scatterers_towards_instrument_in_beam_5	m/s		towards instrument		float	-5	5
ADCP	R_VEL_DETRENDED	water_radial_velocity_of_scatterers_towards_instrument_detrended	m/s	High-frequency content of the velocity signal, which may contain contributions from surface waves, turbulence, and vibrations etc	towards instrument		float	-10	10
ADCP	R_VEL5_DETRENDED	water_radial_velocity_of_scatterers_towards_instrument_in_beam_5_detrended	m/s	High-frequency content of the velocity signal, which may contain contributions from surface waves, turbulence, and vibrations etc	towards instrument		float	-10	10
ADCP	R_DEL	along-beam_separation_distance_over_which_DLL_is_evaluated	m				float	0
ADCP	R_DEL5	along-beam_separation_distance_over_which_DLL_is_evaluated_in_beam_5	m				float	0
ADCP	R_MAX	maximum_separation_distance_over_for_DLL_regression	m				float	0
ADCP	DLL5_N	second_order_structure_function_in_beam_5	m2/s2		AlongBeam_distance		float	0
ADCP	DLL	second_order_structure_function	m2/s2		AlongBeam_distance		float	0
ADCP	DLL_N	second_order_structure_function_number_of_observations	count				int	0
ADCP	DLL5_N	second_order_structure_function_in_beam_5_number_of_observations	count				int	0
ADCP	DLL_FLAGS	second_order_structure_function_status_flags	count				float
ADCP	C2	constant_used_in_the_second_order_structure_function		This constant appears when estimating the dissipation rate of turbulent kinetic energy from the regression coefficients.			float
ADCP	REGRESSION_RSQUARED	regression_goodness_of_fit_adjusted_for_number_of_terms					float
ADCP/ADV	EPSI_CI_LOW	specific_turbulent_kinetic_energy_dissipation_in_water_low_confidence_limit	W kg-1	95% confidence interval			float
ADCP/ADV	EPSI_CI_HIGH	specific_turbulent_kinetic_energy_dissipation_in_water_high_confidence_limit	W kg-1	95% confidence interval			float
ADCP	QAx_BDF	QA_criterion_x_bad_data_flag	logical				logical	0	1
ADCP	REGRESSION_COEFF_A0	structure_function_regression_intercept	m2 s-2				float
ADCP	REGRESSION_COEFF_A1	structure_function_regression_coefficient_for_r^2/3	m4/3 s-2				float
ADCP	REGRESSION_COEFF_A3	structure_function_regression_coefficient_for_(r^2/3)^3	s-2				float
ADCP	REGRESSION_N	structure_function_regression_number_of_observations	count				int
All	L_K	kolmogorov_length_scale	m				float	0	1000
All	L_S	turbulent_corssin_shear_length_scale	m				float	0	100000
All	L_O	turbulent_ozmidov_stratification_length_scale	m				float	0	100000
ADV	TIME_HPR	time_of_heading_pitch_roll_sensors	Days since 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z	Heading, pitch and roll (tilt) sensors measure always at 1Hz for Vector ADV		days since 1950-01-01 00:00 UTC	float