Documentation/README.outfiles
author A.M. Thurnherr <athurnherr@yahoo.com>
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updated plots & seabed code; GoM data process correctly

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During processing of, say station 067, the data files listed below are
produced. While these are all ASCII files containing numbers and
comment lines beginning with #, they have meta-data encoded in them and
are, therefore, not particularly readable. They can easily be imported
into Matlab, however, using the loadANTS.m.

=Standard Field Names=

depth		depth in meters
downcast	flag that is 1 for downcast, 0 for upcast
elapsed		elapsed time in seconds since beginning of cast
ens		ADCP ensemble number

dc_		downcast prefix
uc_		upcast prefix
BT_		bottom-tracking prefix

.mad		mean-absolute-deviation suffix
.nsamp		number-of-sample suffix


=Output Files=

067.log		- log-file of diagnostic processing output 

067.w		- this file contains literally everything
		- each record contains a single w sample (from a
		  particular bin of a particular ensemble) with all
		  available metadata

067.prof	- vertical velocity profiles:
			1) downcast only
			2) upcast only
			3) combined down-/upcast (not recommended)
			4) bottom tracked (only near seabed)

067.LADCPtis	- time series of LADCP reference-layer w data
		- this file is produced before processing, i.e. it can
		  be used to diagnose time-lagging problems

067.tis		- more complete time series data including

067.TL		- diagnostic output of time-lagging algorithm