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Journal for accession number: 0065729
Created on:                    2010-07-16 00:08:22 UTC
By:                            Melanie Hamilton, National Oceanographic Data Center

Source: US DOC, NOAA, NESDIS, NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER,
        Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Program

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

0065729_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).

0065729_map.jpg - Station location map for these data.

MEDS_data_format.txt - Description of the Marine Environmental Data Service
                       (MEDS) data file format.

NancyFoster_20100722_codes.txt - Definitions of codes used in each data file.
                                 Also, includes count (number of times that a code is used in
                                 a data file), field (field names used in the MEDS data
                                 file format), code table (names of code tables used in
                                 NODC's database for the Global Temperature-Salinity
                                 Profile Program), and value (the codes that are used
                                 in data file).  YYYYMMDD in the file name is the
                                 date when the file was retrieved from the GTSPP database, 
                                 file YYYYMMDD.meds (YYYY for year, MM for month, DD for day)

NancyFoster_20100722_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.


NancyFoster_20100722_gtsppinv.csv - Inventory for the csv files.

QualityFlags.txt - Code and Description for the Quality Control Flags

data/0-data/
This directory contains the profile data files in the MEDS, CSV, and NetCDF
data file formats.

NancyFoster_20100722.meds  (GTSPP MEDS formatted data)
dbid.csv  (naming convention is GTSPP DatabaseID.csv, in csv format)
dbid.nc   (naming convention is GTSPP DatabaseID.nc, in NetCDF)
dbid.gif  (naming convention is GTSPP DatabaseID.gif - image of data plots)
NancyFoster.kml - file for Google Earth display