*1997/01/15 21:39:04.86
*IOS HEADER VERSION 1.1  1995/02/17 1995/02/19

*FILE
    START TIME          : GMT 1972/05/09 00:00:00.000
    NUMBER OF RECORDS   : 4
    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         : 0                                     ! custom item
    Q_RECORD            : 0                                     ! custom item
    QC_VERSION          :  1.0                                  ! custom item

    $TABLE: CHANNELS
    ! No Name                Units          Minimum        Maximum
    ! -- ------------------- -------------- -------------- --------------
       1 Depth               Metres         1              75
       2 Temperature         Degrees_C      7.69           8.25
       3 Quality_Flag:Temp   IGOSS_flags    ' '            ' '
       4 'Salinity: Unknown' 'PPT: Assumed' 29.68          31.725
       5 Quality_Flag:Sali   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 : 1899720001_000
         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
        --------------------    --------    --------    --------
        Temperature                    N           0           1
        Salinity: Unknown              N           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             : 720001
    AGENCY              :

*LOCATION
    EVENT NUMBER        : 5
    LATITUDE            :  48  28.00000 N  ! (deg min)
    LONGITUDE           : 123   8.00000 W  ! (deg min)
    Q_POS               : 0                                     ! 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
    1.00     8.250 0.    29.680 0.
   25.00     8.030 0.    30.414 0.
   50.00     7.870 0.    30.918 0.
   75.00     7.690 0.    31.725 0.