***************************************************************** Journal for accession number: 0056017 Created on: 2009-07-20 01:10:03 UTC By: Melanie Hamilton, National Oceanographic Data Center Source: Temperature and salinity profile data from globally distributed Argo profiling floats for the week of 2009-07-09 to 2009-07-15 for the Global Argo Data Repository, date ranged from 2002-02-10 to 2009-07-14 were obtained from the ARGO GTS server (available at as of 2009-07-16 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 July 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 Jul 16, 2009). Additional information about the netCDF file format is available at [http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/argo/document/datafmt/index.htm] (last accessed on Jul 16, 2009). 20090709_prof.nc, 20090709_prof.nc_0, 20090709_prof.nc_1, 20090709_prof.nc_2, 20090710_prof.nc, 20090710_prof.nc_0, 20090710_prof.nc_1, 20090711_prof.nc, 20090711_prof.nc_0, 20090711_prof.nc_1, 20090711_prof.nc_2, 20090712_prof.nc, 20090713_prof.nc, 20090713_prof.nc_0, 20090713_prof.nc_1, 20090714_prof.nc_0, 20090714_prof.nc_1 20090715_prof.nc 20090715_prof.nc_0 20090715_prof.nc_1 20090715_prof.nc_2