Variable Name	FullPapa.mat Name	Units	Quality Control Activity	
Source Deck Number	cdn	N/A	None	
10 Marsden Square	tenmar	Marsden grid number	None	
1 Marsden Square	onemar	Marsden sub-grid number	None	
Quadrant	quad	key value, see ref	None	
Latitude	lat	decimal degrees	Convert to decimal degrees	
Longitude	lon	decimal degrees	Convert to decimal degrees and degrees W	
Year	Year	N/A	None	
Month	month	N/A	None	
Day	Day	N/A	None	
Hour	Hour	N/A	None	
Wind Direction Indicator	wdi	point scale, see ref	None	
Wind Direction	winddir	point scale, see ref	None	
Wind Speed	windspd	knots	None 	
Ship ID	shipid	key value		
U10 speed	U10	meters per second	Converted from other height using logarithmic profile and Smith (1988)	
Visibility Indicator	visind	key value, see ref	None	
Visibility	vis	key value, see ref	None	
Present Weather	presweather	key value, see ref	None	
Past weather	pastweather	key value, see ref	None	
Sea Level Pressure	seapres	millibars	Divide by ten to recover decimal	
Air Temp	airtemp	C	Divide by ten to recover decimal	
Wet Bulb Temp	wetbulb	C	Divide by ten to recover decimal	
Dew Point Temp	dewpt	C	Divide by ten to recover decimal	
Sea Surface Temp	sst	C	Divide by ten to recover decimal	
Total Cloud Amt	tca	key value, see ref	None	
Low Cloud Amt	lca	key value, see ref	None	
Low Cloud Type	lct	key value, see ref	None	
Cloud Height	ch	point scale, see ref	None	
Mid Cloud Type	mct	key value, see ref	None	
High Cloud Type	hct	key value, see ref	None	
Wave Direction	wavedir	point scale, see ref
direction from which waves approach	None	
Wave Period	Ta	point scale	Scale Value = Period (s)
0 = 0-5
1 = 6-7
2 = 8-9
3 = 10-11
4 = 12-13
5 = 14-15
6 = 16-17
7 = 18-19
8 = 20-21
9 = 21+	
Wave Height	waveht	meters	Convert from half to full meters	
Swell Direction	swelldir	same as Wave Direction	None	
Swell Period	swellper	point scale, see ref	None	
Swell Height	swellht	meters	Convert from half to full meters	
Data source is UCAR unless otherwise noted. “see ref” indicates that point scales are defined in TD-1170