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Mon  4 Aug 2003 09:25:25 -0400: Journal for accession number: 0001117
Created on:                    Mon  4 Aug 2003 09:25:25 -0400
By:                            Shannon Niou, OC1, SSMC3, 4620,7133272 156

Source: 
Temperature and salinity profile data from globally distributed Argo
profiling floats for the week of Jul 27 to Aug 02, 2003 for the Global
Argo Data Repository, 2001-10-27 to 2003-08-02 were obtained from the
ARGO GTS server (available at <http://www.usgodae.org/argo/argo.html>
as of 2003-08-04) by NODC staff for the Global Argo Data Repository (GADR).

The U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) operates the Global
Argo Data Repository (GADR) as the long-term archive for the
International Global Argo Project (for additional information about
Argo, see http://www.argo.ucsd.edu/ (last accessed August 2003)). Argo
data archived by the US NODC may include real-time and/or delayed-mode
profiles of ocean temperature and salinity, as well as related
conductivity and/or pressure measurements, collected by Argo profiling
floats.

NODC began archiving Argo daily data on a weekly basis starting
the second quarter of FY 2003. These data include real-time and/or
delayed-mode profiles of ocean temperature and salinity (conductivity
and pressure, if any) measured by the Argo profiling floats.

The file naming convention used for these data is as follows:
yyyymmdd_prof.nc where yyyymmdd is the date the data were transmitted;
prof indicates that these are profile data, and .nc indicates that the
file is a netCDF file. Additional information about the Argo Project is
available at [http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/argo/latest_data.html] (last
accessed on Aug 04, 2003). Additional information about the netCDF file
format is available at
[http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/argo/documents/format2_1/index.htm] (last
accessed on Aug 04, 2003).

Files that are included in this accession:
20030727_prof.nc
20030728_prof.nc
20030729_prof.nc
20030730_prof.nc
20030731_prof.nc
20030801_prof.nc
20030802_prof.nc
