Archived Long-Range CODAR Data File Format

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CODAR Remote Site Locations

** Negative longitude indicated degrees west and positive latitude indicates 
   degrees north. Values are in degrees:minutes.

Site 1 - Loveladies 
    longitude : -74:07.029
    latitude  :  39:44.171

Site 2 - Wildwood
    longitude : -74:51.192
    latitude  :  38:57.219

Site 3 - Sandy Hook
    longitude : -73:59.026
    latitude  :  40:25.992

Site 4 - Tuckerton
    longitude : -74:19.458
    latitude  :  39:30.511

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Filenames are of the form Tot_RULR_yy_mm_dd_hhmm.tot where: 

yy=year    (i.e. 98 for 1998).
mm=month   (i.e. 07 for July).
dd=day     (i.e. 01 for the 1st).
hh-hour    (i.e. 23 for 11:00 pm GMT).
mm=minute  (i.e. 00 for zero minutes).

Each ASCII file contains 5 columns of data.  Each row corresponds to a grid 
point in the surface current vector field.  (999 indicates data dropouts)

**The distance referred to in the following descriptions is that measured
   from the origin point (defined above) to a particular grid point.

Col 01 : Longitude of the data point (degrees, negative for west). 

Col 02 : Latitude of the grid point. (degrees)
 
** All of the following velocity components are based on true east and north 
   directions.

Col 03 : East Component of the raw velocity field, positive to the 
         east. (cm/s) 

Col 04 : North Component of the raw velocity field, positive to the 
         north. (cm/s)

Col 05 : Time. (year day) (day 001.5000 = January 1st 12:00 pm GMT)