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Mon  6 Oct 2003 09:11:42 -0400: Journal for accession number: 0001186
Created on:                    Mon  6 Oct 2003 09:11:42 -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 Sept 28 to Oct 04, 2003 for the Global
Argo Data Repository, 2001-08-11 to 2003-10-04 were obtained from the
ARGO GTS server (available at <http://www.usgodae.org/argo/argo.html>
as of 2003-10-06) 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 October 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 Oct 06, 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 Oct 06, 2003).

Files that are included in this accession:
20030928_prof.nc
20030929_prof.nc
20030930_prof.nc
20031001_prof.nc
20031002_prof.nc
20031003_prof.nc
20031004_prof.nc
