Awac wap Data Format

Looking at my wap files I realize that I have 2 data formats files.

One with 23 and one with 21 columns

Different acq. software and releases used (Awac-AST, SeaState) but after a careful look that's is the summary.

Here you have an example:

05 09 2005 10 50 42  0.46 -9.99  0.58  0.77  2.86  3.24 -9.99 200.06 56.05 189.39 0.77  9.79 1024    0  0.01 227.2 1030
05 09 2005 13 48 31    0.19 -999.99    0.25    0.32    4.22    4.81    4.22   267.08    65.89   285.43    0.78   9.778    0.115   314.65  64

First has 23 and second 21 col.

It seems that first one follows:

 1   Month                            (1-12)
 2   Day                              (1-31)
 3   Year
 4   Hour                             (0-23)
 5   Minute                           (0-59)
 6   Second                           (0-59)
 7   Significant height (Hm0)         (m)
 8   Mean 1/3 height (H3)             (m)
 9   Mean 1/10 height (H10)           (m)
10   Maximum height (Hmax)            (m)
11   Mean  period (Tm02)              (s)
12   Peak period (Tp)                 (s)
13   Mean zerocrossing period (Tz)    (s)
14   Peak direction (DirTp)           (deg)
15   Directional spread (Spr1)        (deg)
16   Mean direction (Mdir)            (deg)
17   Unidirectivity index
18   Mean Pressure                    (dbar)
19   No Detects
20   Bad Detects
21   Current speed (wave cell)        (m/s)
22   Current direction (wave cell)    (degrees)
23   Error Code

The question is: second format (21 col) is the same without 19 and 20 columns?

Please send the reply to: ochic@icm.csic.es

Best regards,

Òscar  Chic

Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC)

Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain)

Hi Jonas,

I only found in the hard disk a very few .whr files. All I've found describes only 23 columns wap data files. So no help for us and still don't know exact format of our data.

I understand that some customers want another format but I don't think that everybody suffer for that. In my humble opinion format must not be changed because you can have another software running from data acquired by awac.

I don't understand fully tha last question. We only run Awac-AST or SeaState software to acquire Awac data

Another question is:

Which is the recommended software and release to acquire Awac data?

Best,

Òscar