***************************************************************** Thu 5 Jun 2003 11:41:07 -0400: Journal for accession number: 0001044 Created on: Thu 5 Jun 2003 11:41:07 -0400 By: Shannon Niou, OC1, SSMC3, 4620,7133272 156 Source: Temperature and salinity profile data from globally distributed Argo profiling floats for the month of May 2003 for the Global Argo Data Repository, 1996-01-05 to 2003-05-31 were obtained from the ARGO GTS server (available at the following URL: https://test.nodc.noaa.gov/argo/latest_data.html as of 2003-06-05) 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 June 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 data on a monthly basis starting the second quarter of FY 2003. These data include real-time and/or delayed-mode profiles of ocean temperature and salinity (conductivity andpressure, 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 Jun 05, 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 Jun 05, 2003). Other files that may be included in this accession: Argo_monthly_readme.txt -- a full description of the containing files are listed, as well as the file structure is explained. netCDF_format.htm -- a GDAC netCDF format description