***************************************************************** 2005-12-13 08:42:32 -0500: Journal for accession number: 0002468 Created on: 2005-12-13 08:42:32 -0500 By: Shannon Niou, OC1, SSMC3, 4620,7133272 156 Source: Temperature and salinity profile data from globally distributed Argo profiling floats for the week of Dec 04 to Dec 10, 2005 for the Global Argo Data Repository, 2001-09-10 to 2005-12-10 were obtained from the ARGO GTS server (available at as of 2005-12-13) by NODC staff for the Global Argo Data Repository (GADR). The U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) operates the Global Argo Data Repository (GADR) as the long-term archive for the International Global Argo Project (for additional information about Argo, see http://www.argo.ucsd.edu/ (last accessed December 2005)). Argo data archived by the US NODC may include real-time and/or delayed-mode profiles of ocean temperature and salinity, as well as related conductivity and/or pressure measurements, collected by Argo profiling floats. NODC began archiving Argo daily data on a weekly basis starting the second quarter of FY 2003. These data include real-time and/or delayed-mode profiles of ocean temperature and salinity (conductivity and pressure, if any) measured by the Argo profiling floats. The file naming convention used for these data is as follows: yyyymmdd_prof.nc where yyyymmdd is the date the data were transmitted; prof indicates that these are profile data, and .nc indicates that the file is a netCDF file. Additional information about the Argo Project is available at [http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/argo/latest_data.html] (last accessed on Dec 13, 2005). Additional information about the netCDF file format is available at [http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/argo/documents/format2_1/index.htm] (last accessed on Dec 13, 2005). Files that are included in this accession: 20051204_prof.nc 20051205_prof.nc 20051206_prof.nc 20051207_prof.nc 20051208_prof.nc 20051209_prof.nc 20051210_prof.nc