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Journal for accession number: 0304325
Created on:                    2025-05-15 11:48:58 UTC
By:                            Alex Kozyr, National Centers for Environmental Information

Source: Kevin O'Brien, NOAA/PMEL submitted these data and metadata to OCADS via SOCAT.

Action(s): This data set is part of the SOCAT NOT automated submission to OCADS. 
All original data and metadata files were transferred to the directory of data/0-data/. 
NCEI personnel extracted the longitude and latitude data, and plotted a sampling 
station map. Both the generated longitude latitude file and the sampling station map were saved in the 
about/ directory. 

Files:

about/
This directory contains files created by NCEI staff, email correspondence,
and other 'negotiable' information between NCEI staff and the data provider.

0304325_lonlat.txt - 
  Contains station 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 decimal degrees).
  NCEI may have corrected or omitted 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/.
  
0304325_map.jpg - 
  Station location map for the data.

0-email - 
Email from SOCAT regarding the data submission to OCADS/NCEI.

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

*.csv - Comma-separated-value (CSV) files are the original data files sent by data providers 
to NCEI, these data files are in /0-data directory. 

*.xlsx - original metadata file in XLSX format sent to NCEI by data providers.

