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Data Type Codes
A list of 2-character codes to describe the instrumentation origins of the data.
| Code | Description | Last time modified |
|---|---|---|
| BA | BATHY message | 5/9/2003 3:28:55 PM |
| BF | Undulating oceanographic recorder (e.g. Batfish CTD) | 7/27/2004 9:47:19 AM |
| CD | CTD down trace | 5/12/2003 10:42:51 AM |
| CU | CTD up trace | 5/20/2003 7:59:11 AM |
| CT | CTD data, up or down | 5/20/2003 7:59:07 AM |
| DB | Drifting buoy | 5/20/2003 7:59:25 AM |
| DM | Delayed mode version from originator | 5/20/2003 8:19:13 AM |
| DD | Delayed mode drifting buoy data | 5/20/2003 7:59:43 AM |
| DT | Digital BT | 5/12/2003 10:39:16 AM |
| HI | Historical Canadian BT (REMOVED 27/09/91) | 5/9/2003 3:39:24 PM |
| IC | Ice core | 5/20/2003 8:19:38 AM |
| IN | Ship intake samples | 5/20/2003 8:21:30 AM |
| MB | MBT | 5/8/2003 11:24:15 AM |
| MC | CTD and bottle data are mixed for the station | 5/20/2003 8:21:53 AM |
| MI | Data from a mixed set of instruments | 5/12/2003 10:46:55 AM |
| ML | Minilog | 5/8/2003 11:24:15 AM |
| NS | Historical foreign BT (REMOVED 27/09/91) | 5/20/2003 8:22:22 AM |
| OF | Real-time oxygen and fluorescence | 5/12/2003 10:46:07 AM |
| PF | Profiling float | 5/20/2003 8:22:45 AM |
| RM | Radio message | 5/12/2003 10:45:13 AM |
| RQ | Radio message with scientific QC | 5/12/2003 10:45:10 AM |
| SC | Sediment core | 5/12/2003 10:44:36 AM |
| SG | Thermosalinograph data | 5/12/2003 10:50:14 AM |
| ST | STD data | 5/12/2003 10:50:21 AM |
| SV | Sound velocity probe | 5/12/2003 10:50:32 AM |
| TE | TESAC message | 5/12/2003 10:50:39 AM |
| TG | Thermograph data | 5/12/2003 10:50:50 AM |
| TK | TRACKOB message | 5/12/2003 10:51:11 AM |
| TO | Towed CTD | 5/12/2003 10:51:24 AM |
| TR | Thermistor chain | 5/12/2003 10:51:35 AM |
| XB | XBT | 5/8/2003 11:24:16 AM |
| ID | Interpolated drifting buoy data | 5/20/2003 8:20:05 AM |
| BO | Bottle | 5/12/2003 10:52:39 AM |
| BT | general BT data | 5/12/2003 10:53:09 AM |
| AR | Animal mounted recorder | 7/27/2004 9:48:19 AM |
