***************************************************************** Journal for accession number: 0000878 Created on: Tue 2 Sep 2003 18:11:41 -0400 By: Eric Ogata, National Oceanographic Data Center Source: Integrated Science Data Management (ISDM) branch of Canada Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Ottawa, Canada Version2.3 - This version of NODC Accession 0000878 has the files "0000878_lonlat.txt" and "0000878_map.jpg" which were renamed from the incorrectly named files "0000879_lonlat.txt" and "0000879_map.jpg" in the previous versions. Files: about/ This directory contains files generated by NODC with ancillary information about the data submission. AAAAAAA_lonlat.txt - Station locations for these data. Each row contains the geographical position for a station (longitude in the left column and latitude in the right column, both in degrees). AAAAAAA is the NODC Accession number for these data. AAAAAAA_map.jpg - Station location map for these data. MEDS_data_format.txt - Description of the Marine Environmental Data Service (MEDS) data file format. YYYYMMDDHHmm_codes.txt - Definitions of codes used in each data file. Also, includes count (number of times that a code is used in a data file), field (field names used in the MEDS data file format), code table (names of code tables used in NODC's database for the Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Program), and value (the codes that are used in data file). YYYYMMDDHHmm in the file name is the date and time when ISDM updated their database with the data in the file YYYYMMDDHHmm.meds (YYYY for year, MM for month, DD for day, HH for hour, and mm for minute). YYYYMMDDHHmm_sum.txt - Summary of statistics for each data file. Includes geographical bounding box of data, number of stations, counts of stations by data and profile types, number of profiles, number of profiles that are neither salinity or temperature profiles, and counts of profiles by type. data/0-data/ This directory contains the profile data files in the MEDS data file format. ISDM submitted these files to NODC via ftp. YYYYMMDDHHmm.meds Renamed files: 0000879_lonlat.txt, 0000879_map.jpg /about/0000879_lonlat.txt /about/0000879_map.jpg Updated files: 0000878_lonlat.txt, 0000878_map.jpg /about/0000878_lonlat.txt /about/0000878_map.jpg