Parameter: lon

Dataset: 
Underway Data - Unfiltered - AN10
Parameter: 
longitude
Master parameters information
Short Name:
 lon
Short Description:
 longitude
Official Name:
 longitude
No Data Value:
 nd
Description:
 

longitude, in decimal degrees, East is positive, negative denotes West; Reported in some datsets as degrees, minutes

Dataset-parameters information
Supplied Name: 
lon
Supplied Units: 
decimal degrees
Conversion Necessary: 
no
No Data Value: 
nd
Description: 

Decimal Longitude (Dec_Lon); Format: +/-xxx.xxxx (W = "-"); Longitude value in degrees obtained from the GPS NMEA $GPRMC data sentence.The RMC sentence is obtained from the switched GPS receiver (C-Nav; GP1850; GP-90D).