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Journal for accession number: 0039735
Created on:                    2008-03-17 14:35:09 +0000
By:                            Melanie Hamilton,SSMC3 4661,7133281 123

Source:  Defense Oceanographic Data Centre,(formerly Ausralian Oceanograhic Data Centre)
         the DODC operates as the National Oceanograhic Data Centre for Australia within
         the guidelines established by UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanograhphic Commission
         (IOC).

Actions: These data were copied to data/0-data/.


Files:

about/
This directory contains files generated by NODC with ancillary information
about the data submission.

AAAAAAA_lonlat.txt - Station locations for these data.  Each row contains the
                     geographical position for a station (longitude in the left
                     column and latitude in the right column, both in degrees).
                     AAAAAAA is the NODC Accession number for these data.


AAAAAAA_map.jpg - Station location map for these data.


marineqc.pdf - AODC XML self-described format can be found in the QC Manual.

0-email.txt - E-mail from JAFOOS/BOM notifying NODC that the file, which contains XBT data
              collected during 2008, are ready to be downloaded and archived.


2008_AODCxbt_sum.txt - Summary of statistics for each data file.  Includes
                       geographical bounding box of data, number of stations,
                       counts of stations by data and profile types, number of
                       profiles, number of profiles that are neither salinity
                       or temperature profiles, and counts of profiles by type.

data/0-data/
This directory contains the profile data files in the GTSPP data file format.


Contact:
Dr Krystyna Jankowska
Head RAN Data Management
Directorate of Oceanography & Meteorology
Department of Defence
Australia

P: 02 9359 3129
F: 02 9359 3120
E: krystyna@metoc.gov.au
W: http://www.metoc.gov.au