M0 daily average data set documentation

This data set contains observations from MBARI OASIS mooring M0. Each variable has been gridded to a common daily time axes after averaging the hourly data with a block average of 24 hour period bounded on the year-day boundaries

The data in this data set are available via DODS at
http://dods.mbari.org/cgi-bin/nph-nc/data/OASISdata/netcdf/dailyAveragedM0.nc

and through the DODS html form mechanism:
http://dods.mbari.org/cgi-bin/nph-nc/data/OASISdata/netcdf/dailyAveragedM0.nc.html

Below is the Ferret script (and following is the output) that produced this file from the original hourly data set (which is also available via DODS and on this Live Access Server at http://dods.mbari.org/cgi-bin/nph-nc/data/OASISdata/netcdf/hourlyM0.nc).

For information on the individual deployments and instruments that contributed to this data set please see the M0 hourly data set documentation.

Summary plots of all the variables in this data set


The Ferret commands that produced this daily averaged file

! Description: Create daily averaged OASIS data file from hourly gridded data
! Automatically generated by ./hourly2dailyaverage.pl on Thu Jul 10 22:41:48 2008.
!
! Average all the data within a GMT year-day to be consistent with data
! processing done on similar data.
! 
! All data sets have AIR_TEMPERATURE_HR variable.  Use it to get axis time limits
! Regrid from 1 hour to 1 day to reduce # file size and number of points
!

!
! Original hourly data file, Use air_temp to define new grid
!
!USE "http://dods.mbari.org/cgi-bin/nph-nc/data/OASISdata/netcdf/hourlyM0.nc"
USE hourlyM0.nc
DEFINE SYMBOL TBEG="`AIR_TEMPERATURE_HR,return=tstart`"
DEFINE SYMBOL TEND="`AIR_TEMPERATURE_HR,return=tend`"
DEFINE AXIS/T=($TBEG):($TEND):1/unit=day TIME_DAY


!
! AIR_PRESS_HR: variable 1 of 17
!
LET AIR_PRESS_DAY = AIR_PRESS_HR[GT=TIME_DAY@AVE]
SET VAR/TITLE="Daily Avg Air Pressure"/UNITS="" AIR_PRESS_DAY
STAT AIR_PRESS_DAY
SAVE/APPEND/FILE="dailyAveragedM0.nc" AIR_PRESS_DAY
CANCEL VAR AIR_PRESS_DAY 

!
! AIR_TEMPERATURE_HR: variable 2 of 17
!
LET AIR_TEMPERATURE_DAY = AIR_TEMPERATURE_HR[GT=TIME_DAY@AVE]
SET VAR/TITLE="Daily Avg air_temperature"/UNITS="" AIR_TEMPERATURE_DAY
STAT AIR_TEMPERATURE_DAY
SAVE/APPEND/FILE="dailyAveragedM0.nc" AIR_TEMPERATURE_DAY
CANCEL VAR AIR_TEMPERATURE_DAY 

!
! CONDUCTIVITY_HR: variable 3 of 17
!
LET CONDUCTIVITY_DAY = CONDUCTIVITY_HR[GT=TIME_DAY@AVE]
SET VAR/TITLE="Daily Avg Conductivity"/UNITS="" CONDUCTIVITY_DAY
STAT CONDUCTIVITY_DAY
SAVE/APPEND/FILE="dailyAveragedM0.nc" CONDUCTIVITY_DAY
CANCEL VAR CONDUCTIVITY_DAY 

!
! ECHO_INTENSITY_BEAM1_HR: variable 4 of 17
!
LET ECHO_INTENSITY_BEAM1_DAY = ECHO_INTENSITY_BEAM1_HR[GT=TIME_DAY@AVE]
SET VAR/TITLE="Daily Avg beam1 Echo Intensity data per beam"/UNITS="" ECHO_INTENSITY_BEAM1_DAY
STAT ECHO_INTENSITY_BEAM1_DAY
SAVE/APPEND/FILE="dailyAveragedM0.nc" ECHO_INTENSITY_BEAM1_DAY
CANCEL VAR ECHO_INTENSITY_BEAM1_DAY 

!
! ECHO_INTENSITY_BEAM2_HR: variable 5 of 17
!
LET ECHO_INTENSITY_BEAM2_DAY = ECHO_INTENSITY_BEAM2_HR[GT=TIME_DAY@AVE]
SET VAR/TITLE="Daily Avg beam2 Echo Intensity data per beam"/UNITS="" ECHO_INTENSITY_BEAM2_DAY
STAT ECHO_INTENSITY_BEAM2_DAY
SAVE/APPEND/FILE="dailyAveragedM0.nc" ECHO_INTENSITY_BEAM2_DAY
CANCEL VAR ECHO_INTENSITY_BEAM2_DAY 

!
! ECHO_INTENSITY_BEAM3_HR: variable 6 of 17
!
LET ECHO_INTENSITY_BEAM3_DAY = ECHO_INTENSITY_BEAM3_HR[GT=TIME_DAY@AVE]
SET VAR/TITLE="Daily Avg beam3 Echo Intensity data per beam"/UNITS="" ECHO_INTENSITY_BEAM3_DAY
STAT ECHO_INTENSITY_BEAM3_DAY
SAVE/APPEND/FILE="dailyAveragedM0.nc" ECHO_INTENSITY_BEAM3_DAY
CANCEL VAR ECHO_INTENSITY_BEAM3_DAY 

!
! ECHO_INTENSITY_BEAM4_HR: variable 7 of 17
!
LET ECHO_INTENSITY_BEAM4_DAY = ECHO_INTENSITY_BEAM4_HR[GT=TIME_DAY@AVE]
SET VAR/TITLE="Daily Avg beam4 Echo Intensity data per beam"/UNITS="" ECHO_INTENSITY_BEAM4_DAY
STAT ECHO_INTENSITY_BEAM4_DAY
SAVE/APPEND/FILE="dailyAveragedM0.nc" ECHO_INTENSITY_BEAM4_DAY
CANCEL VAR ECHO_INTENSITY_BEAM4_DAY 

!
! GPS_LATITUDE_HR: variable 8 of 17
!
LET GPS_LATITUDE_DAY = GPS_LATITUDE_HR[GT=TIME_DAY@AVE]
SET VAR/TITLE="Daily Avg Latitude"/UNITS="" GPS_LATITUDE_DAY
STAT GPS_LATITUDE_DAY
SAVE/APPEND/FILE="dailyAveragedM0.nc" GPS_LATITUDE_DAY
CANCEL VAR GPS_LATITUDE_DAY 

!
! GPS_LONGITUDE_HR: variable 9 of 17
!
LET GPS_LONGITUDE_DAY = GPS_LONGITUDE_HR[GT=TIME_DAY@AVE]
SET VAR/TITLE="Daily Avg Longitude"/UNITS="" GPS_LONGITUDE_DAY
STAT GPS_LONGITUDE_DAY
SAVE/APPEND/FILE="dailyAveragedM0.nc" GPS_LONGITUDE_DAY
CANCEL VAR GPS_LONGITUDE_DAY 

!
! PRESSURE_HR: variable 10 of 17
!
LET PRESSURE_DAY = PRESSURE_HR[GT=TIME_DAY@AVE]
SET VAR/TITLE="Daily Avg Pressure"/UNITS="" PRESSURE_DAY
STAT PRESSURE_DAY
SAVE/APPEND/FILE="dailyAveragedM0.nc" PRESSURE_DAY
CANCEL VAR PRESSURE_DAY 

!
! RELATIVE_HUMIDITY_HR: variable 11 of 17
!
LET RELATIVE_HUMIDITY_DAY = RELATIVE_HUMIDITY_HR[GT=TIME_DAY@AVE]
SET VAR/TITLE="Daily Avg Relative Humidity"/UNITS="" RELATIVE_HUMIDITY_DAY
STAT RELATIVE_HUMIDITY_DAY
SAVE/APPEND/FILE="dailyAveragedM0.nc" RELATIVE_HUMIDITY_DAY
CANCEL VAR RELATIVE_HUMIDITY_DAY 

!
! SALINITY_HR: variable 12 of 17
!
LET SALINITY_DAY = SALINITY_HR[GT=TIME_DAY@AVE]
SET VAR/TITLE="Daily Avg Salinity"/UNITS="" SALINITY_DAY
STAT SALINITY_DAY
SAVE/APPEND/FILE="dailyAveragedM0.nc" SALINITY_DAY
CANCEL VAR SALINITY_DAY 

!
! TEMPERATURE_HR: variable 13 of 17
!
LET TEMPERATURE_DAY = TEMPERATURE_HR[GT=TIME_DAY@AVE]
SET VAR/TITLE="Daily Avg Temperature"/UNITS="" TEMPERATURE_DAY
STAT TEMPERATURE_DAY
SAVE/APPEND/FILE="dailyAveragedM0.nc" TEMPERATURE_DAY
CANCEL VAR TEMPERATURE_DAY 

!
! U_COMPONENT_UNCORR_HR: variable 14 of 17
!
LET U_COMPONENT_UNCORR_DAY = U_COMPONENT_UNCORR_HR[GT=TIME_DAY@AVE]
SET VAR/TITLE="Daily Avg East-West Velocity Towards(+E/-W) True"/UNITS="" U_COMPONENT_UNCORR_DAY
STAT U_COMPONENT_UNCORR_DAY
SAVE/APPEND/FILE="dailyAveragedM0.nc" U_COMPONENT_UNCORR_DAY
CANCEL VAR U_COMPONENT_UNCORR_DAY 

!
! V_COMPONENT_UNCORR_HR: variable 15 of 17
!
LET V_COMPONENT_UNCORR_DAY = V_COMPONENT_UNCORR_HR[GT=TIME_DAY@AVE]
SET VAR/TITLE="Daily Avg North-South Velocity Towards(+N/-S) True"/UNITS="" V_COMPONENT_UNCORR_DAY
STAT V_COMPONENT_UNCORR_DAY
SAVE/APPEND/FILE="dailyAveragedM0.nc" V_COMPONENT_UNCORR_DAY
CANCEL VAR V_COMPONENT_UNCORR_DAY 

!
! WIND_U_COMPONENT_HR: variable 16 of 17
!
LET WIND_U_COMPONENT_DAY = WIND_U_COMPONENT_HR[GT=TIME_DAY@AVE]
SET VAR/TITLE="Daily Avg U Component of Wind Velocity"/UNITS="" WIND_U_COMPONENT_DAY
STAT WIND_U_COMPONENT_DAY
SAVE/APPEND/FILE="dailyAveragedM0.nc" WIND_U_COMPONENT_DAY
CANCEL VAR WIND_U_COMPONENT_DAY 

!
! WIND_V_COMPONENT_HR: variable 17 of 17
!
LET WIND_V_COMPONENT_DAY = WIND_V_COMPONENT_HR[GT=TIME_DAY@AVE]
SET VAR/TITLE="Daily Avg V Component of Wind Velocity"/UNITS="" WIND_V_COMPONENT_DAY
STAT WIND_V_COMPONENT_DAY
SAVE/APPEND/FILE="dailyAveragedM0.nc" WIND_V_COMPONENT_DAY
CANCEL VAR WIND_V_COMPONENT_DAY 
QUIT

The script's output (which contains variable statistics)

 *** NOTE: netCDF bounds variable definition error
 *** NOTE: Bounds definition "LONGITUDE_MET_HR_bnds" points to no existing axis
 *** NOTE: Ignoring BOUNDS attribute
 *** NOTE: netCDF bounds variable definition error
 *** NOTE: Bounds definition "LATITUDE_MET_HR_bnds" points to no existing axis
 *** NOTE: Ignoring BOUNDS attribute
 *** NOTE: netCDF bounds variable definition error
 *** NOTE: Bounds definition "DEPTH_MET_HR_bnds" points to no existing axis
 *** NOTE: Ignoring BOUNDS attribute
 
Daily Avg Air Pressure
LONGITUDE: 121.9W
LATITUDE: 36.8N
DEPTH (m): -3.5
TIME: 03-JUN-2004 06:00 to 01-AUG-2006 06:00
DATA SET: ./hourlyM0.nc
 
 Total # of data points: 789 (1*1*1*789)
 # flagged as bad  data: 93
 Minimum value: 999.45
 Maximum value: 1030.4
 Mean    value: 1016.4 (unweighted average)
 Standard deviation: 4.3288
 LISTing to file dailyAveragedM0.nc
 
Daily Avg air_temperature
LONGITUDE: 121.9W
LATITUDE: 36.8N
DEPTH (m): -3.5
TIME: 03-JUN-2004 06:00 to 01-AUG-2006 06:00
DATA SET: ./hourlyM0.nc
 
 Total # of data points: 789 (1*1*1*789)
 # flagged as bad  data: 89
 Minimum value: 5.9632
 Maximum value: 16.129
 Mean    value: 11.772 (unweighted average)
 Standard deviation: 1.6462
 LISTing to file dailyAveragedM0.nc
 
Daily Avg Conductivity
LONGITUDE: 121.9W
LATITUDE: 36.8N
DEPTH (m): -3.5 to 62.5
TIME: 03-JUN-2004 06:00 to 01-AUG-2006 06:00
DATA SET: ./hourlyM0.nc
 
 Total # of data points: 3945 (1*1*5*789)
 # flagged as bad  data: 210
 Minimum value: 2.0155
 Maximum value: 4.3422
 Mean    value: 3.8247 (unweighted average)
 Standard deviation: 0.15042
 LISTing to file dailyAveragedM0.nc
 
Daily Avg beam1 Echo Intensity data per beam
LONGITUDE: 121.9W
LATITUDE: 36.8N
DEPTH (m): 2.5 to 57.5
TIME: 03-JUN-2004 06:00 to 01-AUG-2006 06:00
DATA SET: ./hourlyM0.nc
 
 Total # of data points: 8679 (1*1*11*789)
 # flagged as bad  data: 1539
 Minimum value: 55.891
 Maximum value: 172.44
 Mean    value: 107.78 (unweighted average)
 Standard deviation: 22.86
 LISTing to file dailyAveragedM0.nc
 
Daily Avg beam2 Echo Intensity data per beam
LONGITUDE: 121.9W
LATITUDE: 36.8N
DEPTH (m): 2.5 to 57.5
TIME: 03-JUN-2004 06:00 to 01-AUG-2006 06:00
DATA SET: ./hourlyM0.nc
 
 Total # of data points: 8679 (1*1*11*789)
 # flagged as bad  data: 1539
 Minimum value: 53.75
 Maximum value: 176.15
 Mean    value: 109.15 (unweighted average)
 Standard deviation: 23.861
 LISTing to file dailyAveragedM0.nc
 
Daily Avg beam3 Echo Intensity data per beam
LONGITUDE: 121.9W
LATITUDE: 36.8N
DEPTH (m): 2.5 to 57.5
TIME: 03-JUN-2004 06:00 to 01-AUG-2006 06:00
DATA SET: ./hourlyM0.nc
 
 Total # of data points: 8679 (1*1*11*789)
 # flagged as bad  data: 1539
 Minimum value: 58.75
 Maximum value: 176.24
 Mean    value: 111.75 (unweighted average)
 Standard deviation: 23.088
 LISTing to file dailyAveragedM0.nc
 
Daily Avg beam4 Echo Intensity data per beam
LONGITUDE: 121.9W
LATITUDE: 36.8N
DEPTH (m): 2.5 to 57.5
TIME: 03-JUN-2004 06:00 to 01-AUG-2006 06:00
DATA SET: ./hourlyM0.nc
 
 Total # of data points: 8679 (1*1*11*789)
 # flagged as bad  data: 1539
 Minimum value: 53.1
 Maximum value: 163.94
 Mean    value: 101.16 (unweighted average)
 Standard deviation: 22.548
 LISTing to file dailyAveragedM0.nc
 
Daily Avg Latitude
LONGITUDE: 121.9W
LATITUDE: 36.8N
DEPTH (decibars): 1
TIME: 03-JUN-2004 06:00 to 01-AUG-2006 06:00
DATA SET: ./hourlyM0.nc
 
 Total # of data points: 789 (1*1*1*789)
 # flagged as bad  data: 331
 Minimum value: 36.834
 Maximum value: 36.835
 Mean    value: 36.834 (unweighted average)
 Standard deviation: 0.00013569
 LISTing to file dailyAveragedM0.nc
 
Daily Avg Longitude
LONGITUDE: 121.9W
LATITUDE: 36.8N
DEPTH (decibars): 1
TIME: 03-JUN-2004 06:00 to 01-AUG-2006 06:00
DATA SET: ./hourlyM0.nc
 
 Total # of data points: 789 (1*1*1*789)
 # flagged as bad  data: 331
 Minimum value: -121.9
 Maximum value: -121.9
 Mean    value: -121.9 (unweighted average)
 Standard deviation: 0.00025638
 LISTing to file dailyAveragedM0.nc
 
Daily Avg Pressure
LONGITUDE: 121.9W
LATITUDE: 36.8N
DEPTH (m): -3.5 to 62.5
TIME: 03-JUN-2004 06:00 to 01-AUG-2006 06:00
DATA SET: ./hourlyM0.nc
 
 Total # of data points: 3945 (1*1*5*789)
 # flagged as bad  data: 208
 Minimum value: 0
 Maximum value: 54.965
 Mean    value: 24.874 (unweighted average)
 Standard deviation: 19.649
 LISTing to file dailyAveragedM0.nc
 
Daily Avg Relative Humidity
LONGITUDE: 121.9W
LATITUDE: 36.8N
DEPTH (m): -3.5
TIME: 03-JUN-2004 06:00 to 01-AUG-2006 06:00
DATA SET: ./hourlyM0.nc
 
 Total # of data points: 789 (1*1*1*789)
 # flagged as bad  data: 103
 Minimum value: 39.092
 Maximum value: 98.386
 Mean    value: 87.175 (unweighted average)
 Standard deviation: 8.4354
 LISTing to file dailyAveragedM0.nc
 
Daily Avg Salinity
LONGITUDE: 121.9W
LATITUDE: 36.8N
DEPTH (m): -3.5 to 62.5
TIME: 03-JUN-2004 06:00 to 01-AUG-2006 06:00
DATA SET: ./hourlyM0.nc
 
 Total # of data points: 3945 (1*1*5*789)
 # flagged as bad  data: 226
 Minimum value: 31.231
 Maximum value: 34.032
 Mean    value: 33.476 (unweighted average)
 Standard deviation: 0.32237
 LISTing to file dailyAveragedM0.nc
 
Daily Avg Temperature
LONGITUDE: 121.9W
LATITUDE: 36.8N
DEPTH (m): -3.5 to 62.5
TIME: 03-JUN-2004 06:00 to 01-AUG-2006 06:00
DATA SET: ./hourlyM0.nc
 
 Total # of data points: 3945 (1*1*5*789)
 # flagged as bad  data: 208
 Minimum value: 8.7542
 Maximum value: 17.544
 Mean    value: 11.847 (unweighted average)
 Standard deviation: 1.608
 LISTing to file dailyAveragedM0.nc
 
Daily Avg East-West Velocity Towards(+E/-W) True
LONGITUDE: 121.9W
LATITUDE: 36.8N
DEPTH (m): 2.5 to 57.5
TIME: 03-JUN-2004 06:00 to 01-AUG-2006 06:00
DATA SET: ./hourlyM0.nc
 
 Total # of data points: 8679 (1*1*11*789)
 # flagged as bad  data: 1539
 Minimum value: -17.79
 Maximum value: 25.663
 Mean    value: -0.55436 (unweighted average)
 Standard deviation: 4.1442
 LISTing to file dailyAveragedM0.nc
 
Daily Avg North-South Velocity Towards(+N/-S) True
LONGITUDE: 121.9W
LATITUDE: 36.8N
DEPTH (m): 2.5 to 57.5
TIME: 03-JUN-2004 06:00 to 01-AUG-2006 06:00
DATA SET: ./hourlyM0.nc
 
 Total # of data points: 8679 (1*1*11*789)
 # flagged as bad  data: 1539
 Minimum value: -19.459
 Maximum value: 26.181
 Mean    value: 1.32 (unweighted average)
 Standard deviation: 4.3663
 LISTing to file dailyAveragedM0.nc
 
Daily Avg U Component of Wind Velocity
LONGITUDE: 121.9W
LATITUDE: 36.8N
DEPTH (m): -3.5
TIME: 03-JUN-2004 06:00 to 01-AUG-2006 06:00
DATA SET: ./hourlyM0.nc
 
 Total # of data points: 789 (1*1*1*789)
 # flagged as bad  data: 45
 Minimum value: -10.428
 Maximum value: 11.466
 Mean    value: 0.9159 (unweighted average)
 Standard deviation: 2.5351
 LISTing to file dailyAveragedM0.nc
 
Daily Avg V Component of Wind Velocity
LONGITUDE: 121.9W
LATITUDE: 36.8N
DEPTH (m): -3.5
TIME: 03-JUN-2004 06:00 to 01-AUG-2006 06:00
DATA SET: ./hourlyM0.nc
 
 Total # of data points: 789 (1*1*1*789)
 # flagged as bad  data: 45
 Minimum value: -7.5995
 Maximum value: 9.8387
 Mean    value: 0.19119 (unweighted average)
 Standard deviation: 1.8783
 LISTing to file dailyAveragedM0.nc


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