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Journal for accession number: 0051087
Created on:                    2009-02-20 13:13:57 UTC
By:                            Melanie Hamilton, National Oceanographic Data Center

Source: Temperature and salinity profile data from globally distributed Argo
profiling floats for the week of 2009-02-12 to 2009-02-18 for the Global Argo
Data Repository, date ranged from 1998-05-13 to 2009-02-18 were obtained
from the ARGO GTS server (available at <http://www.usgodae.org/argo/argo.html>
as of 2009-02-19 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 Feb 2009)). 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 Feb 19, 2009). Additional information about the netCDF file
format is available at
[http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/argo/document/datafmt/index.htm] (last
accessed on Feb 19, 2009).

20090212_prof.nc
20090212_prof.nc_0
20090213_prof.nc
20090213_prof.nc_0
20090213_prof.nc_1
20090214_prof.nc
20090214_prof.nc_0
20090215_prof.nc
20090215_prof.nc_0
20090216_prof.nc
20090216_prof.nc_0
20090217_prof.nc
20090217_prof.nc_0
20090217_prof.nc_1
20090218_prof.nc