Oil Slicks and other floating pollutant Data File Format

Header Record (Station Environmental Information)

Data Record

Field	Name	Descriptions
01-02	Country Code	IOC country code
03	Obs. Type	Observation type - Set to "1"
04-10	Call Sign	Ship's call sign
11-12	Platform	Type of platform
13-15	Institution	Institution code, Japanese code is here
16	Quadrant	Quadrant of globe
17-20	Latitude	Degrees and minutes
21-25	Longitude	Degrees and minutes
26-31	Date	Date of observation (DDMMYY) DD : Day , MM : Month , YY : Last 2 digits of the year
32-35	Time	Time of observation in GMT (Hours and minutes)
36-37	Wind Dir.	Wind direction in tens of degrees, 00 : Calm
38-39	Wind Speed	Wind speed in Beaufort scale
40-41	Wave Period	Wave period in seconds
42-43	Wave Height	see code table
44	Sea State	Sea state in WMO Code 3700
45-47	Air Temp.	Air temperature in deg-C to tenths. To indicate negative temperatures, add 50.0 to the value of the temperature measured and drop the negative sign.
48-50	SST	Sea surface temperature in deg-C to tenths. To indicate negative temperatures, add 50.0 to the value of the temperature measured and drop the negative sign.
51-54	Obs.Code	Observational code
51	Status of obs.	Status of observation
52	Pollutants	Types of pollutants
53	Configuration	Configuration
54	Concentration	Concentration
55-57	Along	Dimension of the polluted area along the ship's track in nautical miles to tenths
58-60	Across	Dimension of the polluted area across the ship's track in nautical miles to tenths
61-64	Height	Observation height above sea level in meters
65-69	Ref. No.	Reference identity number
70-73	Consec. No.	Consecutive observation number
74-75	Card No.	Set to "02"
76-77	Card Type	Set to "01"
78-80	Deck No.	Set to "081"

Remarks Record