What is MULDARS?

MULDARS stands for 'MULtidisciplinary Data Archive and Retrieval
System', a data management system developed and used by NODC until about
1994. Originator data were formatted to standard data structures
according to the type of data. Each data type/data format was given an
identifier, or "file alias." Individual data records within the data
type were assigned a reference number by NODC.

File name conventions:

File names in the data/0-data/ directory are the NODC-assigned
reference numbers. Each data file contains ASCII text, structured as
described in the format file.