Parameter: event

Parameter: 
Master parameters information
Short Name:
 event
Short Description:
 event
Official Name:
 event
No Data Value:
 nd
Description:
 

Event or operation identifier; event or operation number; often derived from date/time (MMDDHHmm) of sampling and when combined with year (YYYY) is a unique sampling identifier/data processing key. Date/time is not necessarily in GMT.

Dataset-parameters information
Supplied Name: 
event
Supplied Units: 
unitless
Conversion Necessary: 
no
No Data Value: 
nd
Description: 

Sampling event number (station-cast). DMO note: there is occasional discrepancy between trawl data and cruise event log for this field.