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Journal for accession number:  0173716
Created on:                    2018-06-11 19:50:27 UTC
By:                            Yongsheng Zhang, National Centers for Environmental Information

Source: data/0-data/ This directory contains files in their original format
as downloaded to NCEI. Ms. Elizabeth Dobbins, University of Alaska -
Fairbanks (UAF), submitted data and metadata to NCEI in submission package
N2DMUD via Send2NCEI (S2N).

Actions: An automated procedure copied the files from the submission package
into this accession. A metadata record in ISO 19115-2 XML format was also
generated from the information provided by the submitter and was copied into
this accession.

Files:

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

N2DMUD-confirmation_email.txt -
  Email from the Send2NCEI web application to Ms. Elizabeth Dobbins,
  University of Alaska - Fairbanks (UAF), confirming that NCEI has received
  the submission information package.

N2DMUD-report.txt -
  Automatically generated report containing information about the automated
  processing of this accession and provider-specific metadata. This report
  is intended for use by the Data Content Manager assigned to this
  accession.

0173716_preview.png
  Browser image of Google map representing the track lines of the drifters. 
  In this map, a white diamond marks each drifter's deployment location and
  a red dot marks the final location at the end of its deployment. Green 
  represents drifters deployed on the ice in 2017, and the white and orange 
  tracks are drifters deployed in 2015. Drifters continued to transmit if 
  they entered the water.

1-email.txt
  Email communication between submitter and NCEI clarifying the data files and
  naming conventions, and submitting browser image.

data/0-data/
This directory contains files in their original format as downloaded to NCEI.

IceTrackers_metadata.xml - 
  ISO metadata provided by data submitter.

final/IceTrackers_2015.dat & final/IceTrackers_2017.dat - 
  Final ice track data files for 2015 and 2017, respectively.
raw/IceTrackers2015/ & raw/IceTrackers2017/ - 
  directories contain the original ice track data for 2015 and 2017, respectively.
  file name type: organization_instrumentType_instrumentNumber.csv
  Naming conventions:
  SFOS = School of Fisheries and Ocean Science
  instrumentType = Ice Tracker
  instrumentNumber = the instrument ID
  csv = csv format
 

