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2007-12-17 12:42:21 -0500: Journal for accession number: 0037174
Created on:                    2007-12-17 12:42:21 -0500
By:                            Melanie Hamilton,SSMC3 4661,7133281 123

Source:
Temperature and salinity profile data from globally distributed Argo
profiling floats for the week of Dec 09, 2007 to Dec 15, 2007 for the 
Global Argo Data Repository, date ranged from 2001-11-21 to 2007-12-15 
were obtained from the ARGO GTS server (available at the following URL:
http://www.usgodae.org/argo/argo.html as of 2007-12-16) 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 2007)). 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 16, 2007). 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 16 2007).

Files that are included in this accession:
20071209_prof.nc
20071210_prof.nc
20071211_prof.nc
20071212_prof.nc
20071213_prof.nc
20071214_prof.nc
20071215_prof.nc