***************************************************************** Journal for accession number: 0281185 Created on: 2023-08-01 09:57:18 UTC By: National Centers for Environmental Information Source: NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) Real-time XBT data collected by the NOAA Shipboard Environmental Data Acquisition System (SEAS) are downloaded from the AOML FTP server by NCEI. Actions: An automated process transferred the original data files to the data/0-data/ directory of this accession. The automated process also extracted longitude and latitude data from the data files and plotted a sample location map. Files: about/ This directory contains files created by NCEI staff and processing, including 'negotiable' information between NCEI staff and the data provider. 0281185_lonlat.txt - Station locations for these data. Each row contains the geographical position of an XBT profile (longitude in the left column and latitude in the right column, both in degrees). 0281185_map.jpg - Station location map for these data. SEAS2000_format.txt - Description of the Shipboard Environmental Data Acquisition System (SEAS) file format. data/0-data/ This directory contains the data files as submitted to NCEI. *.NDC - Data files in SEAS 2000 format as submitted by AOML.