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Journal for accession number: 0002096
Created on:                    2005-04-01 08:36:54 -0500
By:                            Shannon Niou, OC1, SSMC3, 4620,7133272 156

Source: Temperature and salinity profile data from globally distributed Argo
profiling floats for the week of 2009-05-14 to 2009-05-20 for the Global Argo
Data Repository, date ranged from 1996-12-31 to 2009-05-20 were obtained
from the ARGO GTS server (available at <http://www.usgodae.org/argo/argo.html>
as of 2009-05-21 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 May 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 May 21, 2009). Additional information about the netCDF file
format is available at
[http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/argo/document/datafmt/index.htm] (last
accessed on May 21, 2009).

20090514_prof.nc,
20090514_prof.nc_0
20090515_prof.nc,
20090515_prof.nc_0,
20090515_prof.nc_1
20090516_prof.nc,
20090516_prof.nc_0,
20090516_prof.nc_1
20090517_prof.nc,
20090517_prof.nc_0,
20090517_prof.nc_1,
20090517_prof.nc_2
20090518_prof.nc,
20090518_prof.nc_0,
20090518_prof.nc_1
20090519_prof.nc,
20090519_prof.nc_0,
20090519_prof.nc_1
20090520_prof.nc_0