Gen4 Command Reference

Introduction

• Command processing and timeouts
• Formatting
• Security

Quick start

• General overview
• Enabling continuous sampling
• Serial streaming from serial port
• Integrating with a profiling float
• Tips for system integrators
• Migrate from Gen3 to Gen4 platforms
• Download stored data

Commands

• Communications
• Realtime data
• Instrument details
• Deployments
• Memory and datasets
• Configuration information and calibration

Format of stored data

• Overview
• Sample data storage format
• Metadata layout
• Event data storage format

Calibration equations and cross-channel dependencies

• lin - linear equation
• cub - cubic equation
• qad - quadratic equation
• tmp - temperature
• corr_pres2 - pressure with temperature correction
• corr_cond3 - conductivity with pressure and temperature correction
• deri_seapres - derivation of sea pressure from absolute pressure
• deri_depth - derivation of depth from absolute pressure
• pss78 - derivation of practical salinity
• deri_dyncorrT and deri_dyncorrS - derivation of practical salinity with dynamic correction
• corr_o2conc_garcia - O2 concentration compensated for salinity and pressure
• deri_o2sat_garcia - derivation of O2 saturation from concentration
• deri_sos - derivation of speed of sound
• deri_speccond - derivation of specific conductivity

Appendix

• Critical parameter keywords which cannot be used as a label