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Journal for accession number:  0309664
Created on:                    2025-11-20 22:27:22 UTC
By:                            NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information

Source: Integrated Science Data Management (ISDM) branch of Canada
Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), Ottawa, Canada.

Actions: ISDM submitted profile data files in the MEDS data file format to
NCEI via ftp. An automated process then transferred the original data files
to the data/0-data/ directory of this accession. The automated process also
extracted the codes and generated statistics from those data files,
extracted longitude and latitude data and plotted a sample location map.

Files:

about/
This directory contains files generated by NCEI with ancillary information
about the data submission.

0309664_lonlat.txt -
  Station locations for these data.  Each row contains the geographical
  position for a station (longitude in the left column and latitude in the
  right column, both in degrees).

0309664_map.jpg -
  Station location map for these data.

MEDS_data_format.txt -
  Description of the Marine Environmental Data Service (MEDS) data file
  format.

YYYYMMDDHHmm_codes.txt -
  Definitions of codes used in each data file.  Also, includes count (number
  of times that a code is used in a data file), field (field names used in
  the MEDS data file format), code table (names of code tables used in
  NCEI's database for the Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Program), and
  value (the codes that are used in data file).  YYYYMMDDHHmm in the file
  name is the date and time when ISDM updated their database with the data
  in the file YYYYMMDDHHmm.meds (YYYY for year, MM for month, DD for day, HH
  for hour, and mm for minute).

YYYYMMDDHHmm_sum.txt -
  Summary of statistics for each data file.  Includes geographical bounding
  box of data, number of stations, counts of stations by data and profile
  types, number of profiles, number of profiles that are neither salinity or
  temperature profiles, and counts of profiles by type.

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

202511190707.meds

