BEACH Primary Production Format Document May 11, 2018 University of Hawaii at Manoa 1950 East-West Road Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 BEACH primary production data are distributed as an ASCII flat file. An entire year's data is contained in one file (e.g., hot1-12.pp contains the data from HOT-1 through HOT-12). The files are self-explanatory and are presented in a format similar to the one in the Hawaii Ocean Time-series Program Data Report 1. A four-line heading labels each column. Missing data are filled with -9. The last column is quality flags for the bottle, chlorophyll, pheopigments, light incubation, dark incubation, salinity & bacteria values respectively. Quality Indicators: Flag Meaning 1 unquality controlled 2 good data 3 suspect (i.e. questionable) data 4 bad data 5 missing value 9 variable not measured during this cast Reasons for suspect bottle: data indicates mistrip or slight leaking Reasons for bad bottle: known mistrip or heavy leaking Reasons for suspect data: subjectively determined by analyst Reasons for bad data: sampling or analytical error Data Record Format: Column Format Item 2- 5 i4 Cruise Number 10- 10 a1 O - GO-FLO sampled, on-deck Incubation. I - GO-FLO sampled, in-situ Incubation. R - Rosette sampled, in-situ Incubation. N - External closing niskin sampled, in-situ Incubation. 14- 18 f5.2 Incubation Time (hours) 21- 26 i6 Date (YYMMDD) 29- 32 i4 Start Time (HHMM) 35- 38 i4 End Time (HHMM) 40- 43 i4 Depth (Meters) 45- 50 f6.3 Chlorophyll a. Mean (mg/m3) 52- 57 f6.3 Chlroropyll a. Standard Deviation (mg/m3) 59- 64 f6.3 Pheopigments Mean (mg/m3) 66- 71 f6.3 Pheopigments Standard Deviation (mg/m3) 74- 79 f6.2 Light - replicate #1 (mg C/m3) 82- 87 f6.2 Light - replicate #2 (mg C/m3) 90- 95 f6.2 Light - replicate #3 (mg C/m3) 98-103 f6.2 Dark - replicate #1 (mg C/m3) 106-111 f6.2 Dark - replicate #2 (mg C/m3) 114-119 f6.2 Dark - replicate #3 (mg C/m3) 122-128 f7.4 Salinity (PSS-78) 130-136 i7 Prochlorococcus (#/ml) 138-144 i7 Heterotrophic Bacteria (#/ml) 146-152 i7 Synechococcus (#/ml) 154-160 i7 Eukaryotes (#/ml) 163-172 i10 Quality Flags