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Journal for accession number:  0290253
Created on:                    2025-04-08 15:56:20 UTC
By:                            NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information

Source: An informational file was created by NCEI staff.

Version:                       1.2

Actions: Informational files were updated in the about/ directory of
this accession.

The informational file was programmatically added to the about/ directory of
this accession.

Files:
about/
This directory contains files created by NCEI staff and processing, including
'negotiable' information between NCEI staff and the data provider.

0290253_lonlat.txt -
  Contains sample locations for these data. Each row contains the
  geographical position where these data were collected (longitude in the
  left column and latitude in the right column, both in degrees). NCEI may
  have corrected geographic positions that seemed to be in error when
  generating this file. However, NCEI did not change the original data files
  under the directory data/0-data/.

0290253_map.jpg -
  Sample location map for these data.

data/0-data/
This directory contains the data files as submitted to NCEI.

The following is a summary of the differences between the about/ files
in the previous version of this accession and this version:

Total number of files:              4
Number of new files:                0
Number of changed files:            2
Number of files removed:            0
Number of files moved or renamed:   0

Changed files:

0290253_lonlat.txt
0290253_map.jpg

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Journal for accession number:  0290253
Created on:                    2024-03-18 09:47:16 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.

0290253_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).

0290253_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.