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2008-04-24 13:50:19 +0000: Journal for accession number: 0041687
Created on:                    2008-04-24 13:50:19 +0000
By:         Melanie Hamilton, National Oceanographic Data Center

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Temperature and salinity profile data from globally distributed Argo
profiling floats for the week of 2008-04-17 to 2008-04-23 for the Global
Argo Data Repository, date ranged from 2004-01-01 to 2008-04-23 were obtained
from the ARGO GTS server (available at <http://www.usgodae.org/argo/argo.html>
as of 2008-04-24) 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 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 Apr 24, 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 24, 2008).

20080417_prof.nc
20080418_prof.nc,
20080418_prof.nc_0
20080419_prof.nc,
20080419_prof.nc_0
20080420_prof.nc,
20080420_prof.nc_0
20080421_prof.nc,
20080421_prof.nc_0
20080422_prof.nc,
20080422_prof.nc_0
20080423_prof.nc,
20080423_prof.nc_0