*1996/12/14 00:44:14.57
*IOS HEADER VERSION 1.1  1995/02/17 1995/02/19

*FILE
    START TIME          : GMT 1954/12/07 22:57:00.000
    NUMBER OF RECORDS   : 3
    FILE TYPE           : ASCII
    FORMAT              : (F8.2,F10.3,F3.0,F10.3,F3.0)
    DATA TYPE           : REAL*4
    NUMBER OF CHANNELS  : 5
    Q_DATE_TIME         : 1                                     ! custom item
    Q_RECORD            : 3                                     ! custom item
    QC_VERSION          : OCN0                                  ! custom item

    $TABLE: CHANNELS
    ! No Name                 Units          Minimum        Maximum
    ! -- -------------------- -------------- -------------- --------------
       1 Depth                Metres         0              13.4
       2 'Salinity: Pre-1978' PPT            0.88           25.02
       3 Quality_Flag:Sali    IGOSS_flags    ' '            ' '
       4 'Time of Obs.'       'Hour, Minute' 2257           2303
       5 Quality_Flag:Time    IGOSS_flags    ' '            ' '
    $END

    $TABLE: CHANNEL DETAIL
    ! No  Pad             Start  Width  Format    Type      Decimal Places
    ! --  --------------  -----  -----  --------  --------  --------------
       1  9999.99         ' '    ' '    ' '       ' '       ' '
       2  9999.99         ' '    ' '    ' '       ' '       ' '
       3  9               ' '    ' '    ' '       ' '       ' '
       4  9999.99         ' '    ' '    ' '       ' '       ' '
       5  9               ' '    ' '    ' '       ' '       ' '
    $END
    $REMARKS
         This file was created by MEDS
         MEDS File name : 180254692_0008
         Data quality is expressed with the following flags
            0 = not checked
            1 = appears to be good
            2 = inconsistent with climatology
            3 = appears to be doubtful
            4 = appears to be wrong
            5 = value was changed, see the history record
         Q_DATE_TIME is the quality of the date/time
         Q_RECORD is the worst quality flag for the entire station expressed
             as 1,2,3,5,4,0 from best to worst
         QC_VERSION is the version of quality control software used

        Parameter               DUP_FLAG   DIGIT_CODE   STANDARD
        --------------------    --------    --------    --------
        Salinity: Pre-1978             0           0           S
        Time of Obs.                   0           0           4

        DUP_FLAG indicates if another profile exists in MEDS that is of
             higher quality (0=N= no duplicate)
        DIGIT_CODE indicates the type of digitization used
        STANDARD indicates the precision of the observation
    $END

*ADMINISTRATION
    MISSION             : 54692
    AGENCY              : IOS, PACIFIC OCEANOGRAPHIC GROUP.(IOS)

*LOCATION
    EVENT NUMBER        : 8
    LATITUDE            :  49   6.00000 N  ! (deg min)
    LONGITUDE           : 123   9.00000 W  ! (deg min)
    Q_POS               : 1                                     ! custom item
    SOU$                :     14.000                            ! custom item
    OID$                : 1                                     ! custom item
    QCP$                :   00017FDE                            ! custom item
    QCF$                :   00002000                            ! custom item
    $REMARKS
         Q_POS is the quality of the position
         Other custom items are defined by GF3 or MEDS codes
    $END

*INSTRUMENT
    TYPE                : Bottle

*COMMENTS
     MEDS processing history records
       IDENT PRC_CODE  VERSION PRC_DATE ACT_CODE ACT_PARM     AUX_ID    O_VALUE
    -------- -------- -------- -------- ---------------- ---------- ----------
    -------- -------- -------- -------- ---------------- ---------- ----------
    -------- -------- -------- -------- ---------------- ---------- ----------
    -------- -------- -------- -------- ---------------- ---------- ----------

    IDENT is a code idicating the agency writing this history record
    PRC_CODE is the identifier of the software writing this history record
    VERSION is the version of the software used
    PRC_DATE is the date as YYYYMMDD this record was written
    ACT_CODE tells what action was taken against the data
    ACT_PARM = idicates whhich parameter was acted on
    AUX-ID helps to further quality the parameter affected
    O_VALUE was the original value of the parameter if an action changed it
*END OF HEADER
    0.00     0.880 3.  2257.000 1.
    4.60    21.880 1.  2303.000 1.
   13.40    25.020 1.  2257.000 1.