| Parameter | Description | Units |
| Niskin | flag indicating whether data were sampled from Niskin bottles (y|n) | none |
| Measurement | type of measurement | none |
| PI_name | name of principal investigator | none |
| co-PI_name | name of co-principal investigator | none |
| Contributed | flag indicating if data have been contributed; y=yes, n=no and p=preliminary or partial dataset | none |
| QA | Quality flag indicating if quality control has been completed; are data final, yes or no | none |
| on_system | flag indicating whether data are available online: y = in OCB database; n = not available yet; L = link to local resource; R = link to remote resource | none |
| Status | Indication of dataset status; comment or link to data | none |