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2008-04-01 12:41:51 +0000: Journal for accession number: 0040187
Created on:                    2008-04-01 12:41:51 +0000
By:                            Melanie Hamilton, National Oceanographic Data Center

Source:
Temperature and salinity profile data from globally distributed Argo
profiling floats for the month of March 2008 for the Global Argo Data
Repository, 1979-05-15 to 2008-03-31 were obtained from the ARGO GTS
server (available at the following URL:
https://test.nodc.noaa.gov/argo/latest_data.html as of 2008-04-01) 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 April 2008)). 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
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 Apr 01, 2008). Additional information about the netCDF file
format is available at
[http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/argo/documents/format2_1/index.htm]
(last accessed on Apr 01, 2008).

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

gdac200803.tgz