README      January 2003    PSullivan

San Pedro project Data Archive:

*.dat files contain a 1-line column header and comma-delimited data fields. 
      Time and date are part of each record.
*.sum files are a summary of metadata for each data file. 


**** MOORINGS *****
2 moorings at dump site, off shore of Los Angeles, California

Site 2: 01LA-2E  33degree 36.56'N  118deg 17.58'N   approximate depth = 250m
Site 3: 01LA-3E  33degree 31.69'N  117deg 54.05'N   approximate depth = 450m

Each mooring contained an upward-looking 75 kHz ADCP, and a single-point 
RCM-9 current meter located just below the ADCP.  Moorings were initially
deployed 15 June 2000.  Final moorings were recovered in November, 2001.
Site 2 had 5 serial deployments.  Site 3 deployed 4 moorings.  See final
report (PDF) for more details.

FileName convention for ADCP is as follows:
  velocity_ XX _ (project mooring) n .dat   [example: velocity_00_la03c.sum]
	where XX is 2-digit year (00 or 01),
	project mooring is la02 or la03 (site 2 or 3),
	n is mooring sequence letter, a through e in order through time,
	suffix is .dat for data file, or .sum for metadata summary file.

FileName convention for RCM-9 is as follows:
   e XX (project mooring) n _depth_ rcm9 .dat [example: e00la2c_249m_rcm9.dat]
	where XX is 2-digit year (00 or 01),
	project mooring is la2 or la3 (site 2 or 3),
	n is mooring sequence, a through e in order through time,
	depth is 3-digit number ending in 'm' for meters (245m)
	suffix is .dat for data file, or .sum for metadata summary file.




*****  CTD  *****

During the project, 4 sets of CTD data were collected during 4 cruises
at the two Pan Pedro mooring sites (sites 2 & 3).  See Table 1 in final data 
report for more detail.  The dates, ships and info are as follows:

July 21,2000   LA00-01  10 casts
May 10, 2001   KA01-04  10 casts
Nov.28, 2001   LA01-03   6 casts
Feb.28, 2002   JD02-01  10 casts

FileName convention is as follows:
   (cruisename) c (XXX) _ctd.dat  [example: ka0104c001_ctd.dat]
     	where cruisename is taken from list above (la0001, ka0103, etc),
	c refers to 'cast'
	XXX = 3-digit cast number, and
	_ctd defines file as CTD
	.dat contains comma-delimited data with headers
	.sum contains meta data about a particular cast