***************************************************************** Journal for accession number: 0204528 Created on: 2019-10-07 17:31:50 UTC By: Tim Boyer, National Oceanographic Data Center Source: The World Ocean Database 2018 updates were submitted and archived by Tim Boyer Actions: The files were copied into data/0-data. Files: about/ This directory contains files created by NCEI staff, and email correspondence with the data producer. 0204528_lonlat.txt - Contains sample locations for these data. 0204528_map.jpg -Sample location map generated from listing of longitude and latitude coordinates in 0204528_lonlat.txt. data/0-data/ This directory contains the data files as acquired by NCEI. Data are separated into directories by year All data sets will have a single ragged array file in each yearly directory if there are new/updated data for that year. The data sets are: XBT - expendable bathythermographs CTD - high resolution conductivity temperature depth (CTD) sensors and expendable conductivity temperature depth (XCTD) censors OSD - bottle data/low resolution CTD - XCTD/plankton PFL - profiling floats DRB - drifting buoys MRB - moored buoys UOR - undulating oceanographic recorders APB - pinniped mounted instrument GLD - gliders Note that some casts occur in freshwater bodies such as the Laurentine Great Lakes. Further, there are some casts with incorrect latitudes and longitudes that appear on land. These casts are maintained in IQuOD in the hope that information will be provided at some point which will allow for the correction of erroneous latitudes/longitudes.