Indian Ocean Data

These ascii files contain the latest data from 
our new moorings in the Indian Ocean. Files are
named by variable and site, with _dy indicating
daily average data. The variable prefixes are 
defined below.

  airt	Air Temperature
  bp	Sea Level Barometric Pressure
  cur	Ocean Currents
  d	Sigma-Theta
  dyn	Dynamic Height
  heat	Upper Ocean Heat Content
  iso20 20 degree C Isotherm Depth
  lw	Longwave Radiation
  met	Sea Surface Meteorological data
	including winds, airt, sst, and rh
  pos	Mooring position latitude and longitude
  rad	Shortwave Radiation
  rain	Precipitation, or rain rate in mm/hr
  rh	Relative Humidity
  s	Salinity
  sst	Sea Surface Temperature
  t	Water Temperature
  w	Wind

Files are also collected into compressed tar files 
by variable, for example, sst.tar.Z. These can be
downloaded all at once, uncompressed and untarred
using commands like these

  gunzip sst.tar.gz
  tar -xvf sst.tar

You can find simple fortran programs for reading these
files here

  http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/data_deliv/prog/

If you use these data in publications, please acknowledge 
the TAO Project Office, Dr. Michael J. McPhaden, Director.  
Also, we would appreciate receiving a preprint and/or 
reprint of those publications utilizing the data for 
inclusion in the TAO Project bibliography. Relevant 
publications should be sent to:
 
The TAO Project Office
NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
7600 Sand Point Way NE
Seattle, WA 98115
 
Please send comments, questions, or problems 
to "atlasrt@noaa.gov".