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2007-12-31 15:14:55 -0500: Journal for accession number: 0037840
Created on:                    2007-12-31 15:14:55 -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 23 to Dec 29, 2007 for the Global
Argo Data Repository, 2001-12-13 to 2007-12-29 were obtained from the
ARGO GTS server (available at <http://www.usgodae.org/argo/argo.html>
as of 2007-12-30) 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,
and the _# is the sequence number assigned when the file 
exceeds the file size limits. 
Additional information about the Argo Project is available at
[http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/argo/latest_data.html] (last accessed 
on Dec 30, 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 30, 2007).

Files that are included in this accession:

20071223_prof.nc
20071223_prof.nc_0
20071224_prof.nc
20071224_prof.nc_0
20071225_prof.nc
20071225_prof.nc_0
20071226_prof.nc
20071227_prof.nc
20071228_prof.nc
20071229_prof.nc