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Global Argo Data Repository Status Report for 2009. Charles Sun US National Oceanographic Data Center 10 th Argo Data Management Team Meeting 30 September – 2 October 2009, Toulouse, France. Highlights of Activities.
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Global Argo Data Repository Status Report for 2009 Charles Sun US National Oceanographic Data Center 10th Argo Data Management Team Meeting 30 September – 2 October 2009, Toulouse, France
Highlights of Activities • Performed an automated procedure of “mirroring” a local Argo data set in sync with the Argo GDAC server at Monterey, CA. • Implemented an automated procedure for acquiring the CLIVAR & Carbon Hydrographic Data Office (CCHDO) data from the Web for archive accession. • Identified the deficiency of the Argo NetCDF format convention and developed a strategy for improving the Argo convention in compliance with the Climate and Forecast (CF) metadata convention. • Produced monthly archives of the Argo data archived at the NODC and populated them at http://argo.nodc.noaa.gov/
Argo Monthly Archives Web Site http://argo.nodc.noaa.gov/
GADR Web Server Statistics • Monthly average of requests (files): • 595,908 in 2007 • 1,021,903 in 2008 • 1,006,767 in 2009* • Monthly average of data download: • 23.55 GB in 2007 • 42.41 GB in 2008 • 54.57 GB in 2009* *ending August 2009
Future Plan • Continue GADR operations. • Continue to acquire the CCHDO data via the Internet on a quarterly basis. • Continue to populate the Argo data archives on a monthly basis.