CODAS conventions
- All times are in UTC
- The decimal day is a zero-based value. Noon January 1 UTC is 0.5, not 1.5.
This is the best convention when dealing with data that may cross over
a year boundary. (if your cruise does cross over a year boundary, the
decimal days will just keep increasing past 365)
- Data averaged over a period of time have an associated time and position.
These represent the values at the end of the ensemble. Other scalars
associated with a given ensemble (temperature, heading) are averaged.
- Pitch and roll (if available) are recorded but not used in the
data processing.