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Journal for accession number: 0002286
Created on:                    2005-07-20 13:25:40 -0400
By:                            Carla Forgy, SSMC3 4306, 713-3295 x184

Source:  Temperature, salinity profile data received at NODC on 07/01/2004 by Igor Smolyar from the 
Murmansk Marine Biological Institute, digitized from "NOAA Atlas NESDIS 58, Climatic Atlas of the Arctic Seas 2004:  
Part I. Database of the Barents, Kara, Laptev, and White Seas-Oceanography and Marine Biology.



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.****