Data Type Codes

A list of 2-character codes to describe the instrumentation origins of the data.

BA

BATHY message

Last time modified: 5/9/2003 3:28:55 PM

BF

Undulating oceanographic recorder (e.g. Batfish CTD)

Last time modified: 7/27/2004 9:47:19 AM

CD

CTD down trace

Last time modified: 5/12/2003 10:42:51 AM

CU

CTD up trace

Last time modified: 5/20/2003 7:59:11 AM

CT

CTD data, up or down

Last time modified: 5/20/2003 7:59:07 AM

DB

Drifting buoy

Last time modified: 5/20/2003 7:59:25 AM

DM

Delayed mode version from originator

Last time modified: 5/20/2003 8:19:13 AM

DD

Delayed mode drifting buoy data

Last time modified: 5/20/2003 7:59:43 AM

DT

Digital BT

Last time modified: 5/12/2003 10:39:16 AM

HI

Historical Canadian BT (REMOVED 27/09/91)

Last time modified: 5/9/2003 3:39:24 PM

IC

Ice core

Last time modified: 5/20/2003 8:19:38 AM

IN

Ship intake samples

Last time modified: 5/20/2003 8:21:30 AM

MB

MBT

Last time modified: 5/8/2003 11:24:15 AM

MC

CTD and bottle data are mixed for the station

Last time modified: 5/20/2003 8:21:53 AM

MI

Data from a mixed set of instruments

Last time modified: 5/12/2003 10:46:55 AM

ML

Minilog

Last time modified: 5/8/2003 11:24:15 AM

NS

Historical foreign BT (REMOVED 27/09/91)

Last time modified: 5/20/2003 8:22:22 AM

OF

Real-time oxygen and fluorescence

Last time modified: 5/12/2003 10:46:07 AM

PF

Profiling float

Last time modified: 5/20/2003 8:22:45 AM

RM

Radio message

Last time modified: 5/12/2003 10:45:13 AM

RQ

Radio message with scientific QC

Last time modified: 5/12/2003 10:45:10 AM

SC

Sediment core

Last time modified: 5/12/2003 10:44:36 AM

SG

Thermosalinograph data

Last time modified: 5/12/2003 10:50:14 AM

ST

STD data

Last time modified: 5/12/2003 10:50:21 AM

SV

Sound velocity probe

Last time modified: 5/12/2003 10:50:32 AM

TE

TESAC message

Last time modified: 5/12/2003 10:50:39 AM

TG

Thermograph data

Last time modified: 5/12/2003 10:50:50 AM

TK

TRACKOB message

Last time modified: 5/12/2003 10:51:11 AM

TO

Towed CTD

Last time modified: 5/12/2003 10:51:24 AM

TR

Thermistor chain

Last time modified: 4/29/2015 5:45:18 PM

XB

XBT

Last time modified: 5/8/2003 11:24:16 AM

ID

Interpolated drifting buoy data

Last time modified: 5/20/2003 8:20:05 AM

BO

Bottle

Last time modified: 5/12/2003 10:52:39 AM

BT

general BT data

Last time modified: 5/12/2003 10:53:09 AM

AR

Animal mounted recorder

Last time modified: 7/27/2004 9:48:19 AM

CB

CTD data at bottle depth

Last time modified: 4/29/2015 5:45:18 PM