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Journal for accession number:  0089468
Created on:                    2012-05-22 22:16:57 UTC
By:                            Automated Ingest Agent

Source: NOAA WaveWatch III® Operational Wave Models output from the
        Marine Modeling and Analysis Branch (MMAB) of the NOAA/National
        Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP).

NODC Processing:
        
NODC developed an automated process to ingest WAVEWATCH III® files into
the NODC Archive Management System (AMS) [i.e., download (acquire), organize
files, create FGDC metadata].  Some data files were transmitted as tar
files; the original files from those tar files have been extracted and the
tar files have been discarded, as they were an artifact of the transmission
procedure.

These model outputs are available to the public for the long term via the
NODC Ocean Archive System (http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/Archive/Search/).
Additional documentation for WAVEWATCH III® model outputs may be obtained
from the NOAA/National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) website
at http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/waves/wavewatch/.

Files found in this accession:

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

0089468_FGDC-STD-001-1998.xml -
  Metadata record for the archived data, in Federal Geographic Data
  Committee (FGDC) Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
  (FGDC-STD-001-1998) XML format.

data/0-data/
This directory contains the data files that were submitted to NODC by
the NCEP.