What's New

• 29 April 2014  The GADR NetCDF Format Updated to GADR-3.0

  The Global Argo Data Repository (GADR) serves the Argo data in the new GADR netCDF format (GADR-3.0) using lowercase letters for the dimension and variable names and still preserving the contents of the original Argo data. The enhancement of the global attributes section allow Argo dataset discovery and facilitate mapping between dataset metadata (notably netCDF) and ISO 19115. These conventions identify and define a list of NetCDF global attributes recommended for describing a NetCDF dataset to discovery systems such as Digital Libraries. Software tools will use these attributes for extracting metadata from datasets, and exporting to Dublin Core, DIF, ADN, FGDC, ISO 19115 etc. metadata formats.

  The GADR-3.0 format files (sample GADR3-0 netCDF format file) are fully in compliance with the Climate Forecast (CF) and Attribute Convention for Dataset Discovery (ACDD) conventions with the following global attributes beging added:

  Name of Global Attribute	Attribute Value
  uuid	6271efac-7213-4f3d-be99-53452f4aa471
  summary	The U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) operates the Argo Global Data Repository (GADR). For information about organizations contributing data to GADR, see http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/argo/
  file_source	The Argo Global Data Assembly Center FTP server at ftp://ftp.ifremer.fr/ifremer/argo
  keywords	temperature, salinity, sea_water_temperature, sea_water_salinity
  keywords_vocabulary	NODC Data Types, CF Standard Names
  creator_name	Charles Sun
  creator_url	http://www.nodc.noaa.gov
  creator_email	Charles.Sun@noaa.gov
  id	0042682
  naming_authority	gov.noaa.nodc
  standard_name_vocabulary	CF-1.6
  Metadata_Conventions	Unidata Dataset Discovery v1.0
  publisher_name	US DOC; NESDIS; NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER - IN295
  publisher_url	http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/
  publisher_email	NODC.Services@noaa.gov
  date_created	2014-03-24T12:30:26Z
  date_modified	2014-03-24T12:30:26Z
  date_issued	2014-03-24T12:30:26Z
  acknowledgment	These data were acquired from the US NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) on [DATE] from http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/.
  license	These data are openly available to the public Please acknowledge the use of these data with the text given in the acknowledgment attribute.
  cdm_data_type	trajectoryProfile
  geospatial_lat_min	-60.508999
  geospatial_lat_max	-43.077000
  geospatial_lon_min	67.571999
  geospatial_lon_max	117.43500
  geospatial_vertical_min	4.5000000
  geospatial_vertical_max	99999.000
  geospatial_lat_units	degrees_north
  geospatial_lat_resolution	point
  geospatial_lon_units	degrees_east
  geospatial_lon_resolution	point
  geospatial_vertical_units	decibars
  geospatial_vertical_resolution	point
  geospatial_vertical_positive	down
  time_coverage_start	2011-02-14T01:00:14Z
  time_coverage_end	2014-03-20T04:44:39Z
  time_coverage_duration	point
  time_coverage_resolution	point
  gadr_ConventionVersion	GADR-3.0
  gadr_program	convAGDAC.f90
  gadr_programVersion	1.0