***************************************************************** Tue 20 May 2003 08:55:38 -0400: Journal for accession number: 0001030 Created on: Tue 20 May 2003 08:55:38 -0400 By: Shannon Niou, OC1, SSMC3, 4620,7133272 156 Source: Temperature and salinity profile data from globally distributed Argo profiling floats for the week of May 11 to May 17, 2003 for the Global Argo Data Repository, 2003-04-26 to 2003-05-17 were obtained from the ARGO GTS server (available at as of 2003-05-20) 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 May 2003)). 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 May 20, 2003). Additional information about the netCDF file format is available at [http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/argo/documents/format2_1/index.htm] (last accessed on May 20, 2003). Files that are included in this accession: 20030511_prof.nc 20030512_prof.nc 20030513_prof.nc 20030514_prof.nc 20030515_prof.nc 20030516_prof.nc 20030517_prof.nc