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Journal for accession number: 0170742
Created on:                    2018-02-20 17:53:51 UTC
By:                            Olga Baranova, National Centers for Environmental Information

Source: The data in this archival information package (NCEI accession 0170742)
        is the content of NODC standard online product 
        "GINS Regional Climatology Version 2".
        To provide an improved oceanographic foundation and reference for multi-disciplinary 
        studies of the GINS, the NCEI Regional Climatology Team developed a new version of
        high-resolution quality-controlled temperature and salinity fields on standard depth 
        levels from the sea surface to 4,900 m depth in the GINS region. Like the previous version, 
        version 2 is based on temperature and salinity observations from the World Ocean Database
        for years 1955 to 2012, or roughly six decades. The individual decadal fields are a 
        significant upgrade from the previous version of the GINS. Version 2 contains six
        decadal climatologies from 1955 to 2012 with annual, seasonal, and monthly time resolutions, 
        which can be used to assess ocean climate change over the 1955-2012 time period and
        can be utilized in other climate-related applications.
        The maps for viewing and data for downloading are available online at
        the NODC web site: www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/regional_climate/gin-seas-climate.

Actions: The data and images comprising the GINS Regional Climatology Version 2 
         were copied to directories on the data/0-data/. A PDF version of the GINS Regional
         Climatology website information pages was created and copied to data/0-data/DOCS directory.

Files:
about/
This directory contains files created by NCEI staff that describe the content of the product.

0170742_preview.png -
   The map created by NCEI staff to support NCEI browse graphic management.

data/0-data/
This directory contains the data files from the original product.

data/0-data/DATA/temperature/netcdf -
   contains temperature data in netCDF format.

data/0-data/DATA/temperature/csv -
   contains temperature data in csv format.

data/0-data/DATA/temperature/shape -
   contains temperature data in ArcGIS format.

data/0-data/DATA/salinity/netcdf -
   contains salinity data in netCDF format.

data/0-data/DATA/salinity/csv -
   contains salinity data in csv format.

data/0-data/DATA/salinity/shape -
   contains salinity data in ArcGIS format.

data/0-data/FIGS -
   contains all maps from  GINS Regional Climatology Version 2 digital atlas.

data/0-data/DOCS -
   contains a PDF version of the GINS Regional Climatology GINS Regional Climatology 
   website information pages.