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Santa Barbara Channel - Santa Maria Basin Circulation Study

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The Drifter Deployment Table lists information on the year and month drifters were deployed.

Proceed to the Drifter Data Directory

Drifter Position Data
Drifter position data available from this FTP site are listed by release number and stored in CSA format. CSA format is an ASCII format in which the first five lines of the file contain the header information. Lines 1 through 3 contain the static variable names, units, and values; lines 4 and 5 contain the dynamic variable names and units. The rest of the file contains the dynamic variables in columns. The filenames use the following convention: the first character is always a p, the next three characters are the release number, and the last three characters are always fix to denote a position data file. For example the data file for release 20 would be called p020.fix.

Proceed to the Drifter Position Data Directory

Drifter Temperature Data
Drifter position data available from this FTP site are listed by release number and stored in CSA format. CSA format is an ASCII format in which the first five lines of the file contain the header information. Lines 1 through 3 contain the static variable names, units, and values; lines 4 and 5 contain the dynamic variable names and units. The rest of the file contains the dynamic variables in columns. The filenames use the following convention: the first character is always a p, the next three characters are the release number, and the last three characters are always deg to denote a temperature data file. For example the data file for release 20 would be called p020.deg.

Proceed to the Drifter Temperature Data Directory

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