Description of WOCE component ACM29

ACM29 was a multi-year mooring near the former location of Ocean Weather Station Bravo, in the Labrador Sea. The goal of ACM29 was to obtain current and physical property data to aid in understanding Labrador Sea Water formation and the variability in its properties induced by interannual variations in the heat and salt fluxes.

Format of the current records

These files have been compressed with the ZIP compression utility. After downloading them, you will need to expand them. On a PC, WinZip or Pkunzip will do the job. Other utilities are available for the Unix and Macintosh environments. After expansion, you will have ascii files in OSU's stranger format.

The stranger format begins with several lines of header information that are meant to be machine-readable. They contain a Fortran format specification that will be useful in reading the file, a pointer to the first line of data, and a description of the data. Each line of the current record itself contains the time of the sample, the values recorded, and a line count.

Please be aware that end-of-line in these files is a carriage-return plus line-feed (the PC convention). This means that in a Unix environment (where a single line-feed serves as end-of-line) you may want to remove the carriage-returns.