***************************************************************** 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 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