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2005-06-09 13:48:24 -0400: Journal for accession number: 0002225
Created on:                    2005-06-09 13:48:24 -0400
By:                            Carla Forgy, SSMC3 4306, 713-3295 x184

Source:  Temperature, salinity, oxygen and other profile data received at NODC on 09/20/04 by Sydney Levitus
and Olga Baranova, digitized from "Garfield, N., G.E. Friederich, and L.A. Godispoti, 1983: Data report: INDEX 1979: 
"Chemical Oceanographic Observations from off the Somali Cioast during 1979", Bigelow laboratory for Ocean Sciences Technical report n. 34

File format: NODC/OCL GODAR digitization format (comma-separated-values)
These data were manually entered into a MS Excel spreadsheet by NODC personnel and 
/or contractors from the original source.  The MS Excel spreadsheet was subsequently 
saved as the .xls file and as a comma-delimited ascii text in the .csv file.

***Information about the data format can be found in the CSV_format_description.html in the /about directory.****