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Journal for accession number: 0286586
Created on:                   2023-12-31 12:26:39 UTC
By:                           Tim Boyer, National Oceanographic Data Center

Source: The World Ocean Database 2018 updates were submitted and archived by Tim Boyer

Actions: The files were copied into data/0-data.

Files:
about/
This directory contains files created by NCEI staff, and email correspondence
with the data producer.

0286586_lonlat.txt - Contains sample locations for these data.

0286586_map.jpg -Sample location map generated from listing of longitude
and latitude coordinates in 0286586_lonlat.txt.


data/0-data/
This directory contains the data files as acquired by NCEI.
This directory contains the data files as acquired by NCEI.  This dataset (World
Ocean Database 2013) is an NCEI product.  Files were produced internally.

Data are separated into directories by year
All data sets will have a single ragged array file in each
yearly directory if there are new/updated data for that year.
The exception is directory 1800, which contains data for all years
1772-1899.

The data sets are:

XBT - expendable bathythermographs
MBT - mechanical bathythermograph
CTD - high resolution conductivity temperature depth (CTD) sensors and
      expendable conductivity temperature depth (XCTD) censors
OSD - bottle data/low resolution CTD - XCTD/plankton
PFL - profiling floats
DRB - drifting buoys
MRB - moored buoys
APB - pinniped mounted instrument
GLD - gliders
UOR - undulating oceanographic recorder (towed CTD)


Note that some casts occur in freshwater bodies such as the Laurentine
Great Lakes.  Further, there are some casts with incorrect latitudes
and longitudes that appear on land.  These casts are maintained in
the World Ocean Database in the hope that information will be
provided at some point which will allow for the correction of
erroneous latitudes/longitudes.