***************************************************************** 2006-09-25 08:48:09 -0400: Journal for accession number: 0006774 Created on: 2006-09-25 08:48:09 -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 Sept 17 to Sept 23, 2006 for the Global Argo Data Repository, 2000-06-02 to 2006-09-23 were obtained from the ARGO GTS server (available at as of 2006-09-05) 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 September 2006)). 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 Sept 05, 2006). Additional information about the netCDF file format is available at [http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/argo/documents/format2_1/index.htm] (last accessed on Sept 05, 2006). Files that are included in this accession: 20060917_prof.nc 20060918_prof.nc 20060919_prof.nc 20060920_prof.nc 20060921_prof.nc 20060922_prof.nc 20060923_prof.nc