Subject: Transfer of ICON - Salt River Bay 2008 Meteorological and Oceanographic Observations From: Sarah O'Connor Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:14:33 -0400 To: _NESDIS NODC Data Officer , Jacqueline Shapo NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP) Date: 8/21/2009 TO: National Oceanographic Data Center FROM: NOAA CRCP Coral Reef Information System (CoRIS) SUBJECT: Transfer of: ICON - Salt River Bay 2008 Meteorological and Oceanographic Observations Please acknowledge receipt of this dataset by providing the assigned NODC Accession Number. CoRIS Contact: Sarah O'Connor Data Contact: James C. Hendee Ocean Chemistry Division, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meterological Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Address: 4301 Rickenbacker Causeway Miami, Florida 33149-1026 Telephone: (305) 361-4396 The product is available: The original data files are in this directory on the Projects Directory. \\Projects\coris\Data\DataReceipt\NOAA\oar\ICONstations\2009\original_files\srvi2-2008.xls CoRIS staff converted the original Excel files that we received from the data provider into CSV files. These files are available in this directory: \\Projects\coris\Data\DataReceipt\NOAA\oar\ICONstations\2009\txt_files\ srvi2-2008.csv The CoRIS metadata are available: http://coris.noaa.gov/metadata/records/txt/icon_srvi_2008.txt Special Information: Data Provider Consent Listed below is the portion of the email where Jim granted permission for CoRIS to submit his data to NODC to be archived. > 3) Finally, is it o.k. if we submit the data to NODC for archiving? CRCP has been encouraging us to > submit any data we receive within CoRIS to the appropriate NOAA Data Center to ensure long-term > preservation of the information. Sure. Absolutely fine with me. The data are solid gold. Whoops, one last qualifier. The data we send to you as QC'ed data should go to NODC, not the near real-time data posted on the Web links you showed (those are provisional data that undergo the QC process). Jim