HydroBase Station Format

Files are ascii text and therefore straightforward to read. A file can contain any number and type of profiles. Each individual profile stores meta-data in 2 header lines and any number of properties, measured or derived.

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HydroBase Gridded Format

Files are in netCDF format which are platform independent and self-describing. Properties are gridded in latitude, longitude, depth and time dimensions. Each property contains a variable for each of these statistics:

• Mean Value
• Number of Observations
• Square root of the error variance
• X and Y decorrelation scales

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