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Journal for accession number: 0201696
Created on:                    2019-09-03 19:04:22 UTC
By:                            Olga Baranova, National Centers for Environmental Information

Source: The data in this archival information package (NCEI accession 0201696)
        is the content of NODC standard online product
        Southwest North Atlantic Regional Climatology (SWNA RC). 
        The SWNA RC is a collection of high-resolution quality-controlled temperature and
        salinity fields on standard depth levels from the sea surface to 4,900 m depth. 
        This RC based on temperature and salinity observations from the 2018 release of 
        the World Ocean Database. The coverage includes the years 1955 to 2017, or roughly 
        six decades; with annual, seasonal, and monthly time resolutions for each of the six 
        decades. The SWNA RC can be employed to assess ocean climate change over the 1955-2017 
        time period and utilized in many climate studies, environmental research projects, 
        and related applications. 
        The maps for viewing and data for downloading are available online at
        the NODC web site: https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/regional_climate/swa-climate.

Actions: The data and images comprising the Southwest North Atlantic Regional Climatology 
         were copied to directories on the data/0-data/. A PDF version of the SWNA 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.

0201696_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 Southwest North Atlantic Regional Climatology digital atlas.

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