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The Coriolis data centre is one of the two Argo Global Data Assembly Centres
(GDAC).
Argo data are freely available from the Coriolis and US-Godae GDAC FTP site .
All data files are in NetCDF profile and multi-profile format.
 | Click here for a description of the
data format (user's manual). |
| Click here for a description of
the Argo ftp site organization. |
| Click
here for US-GODAE GDAC. |
Coriolis GDAC is updated in real-time with data from Data Assembly Centers (DAC)
: US AOML, Canadian MEDS, Japanese JMA, EU Coriolis.
Coriolis GDAC is also updated with data coming from GTS the World Meteorological
Organization (WMO) global network.
The Argo ftp site provides 3 "views" of the data profiles :
| DAC :
 | a directory per data assembly center |
| a directory per profiler |
| a file per profile of the profiler |
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| GEO :
| a directory per ocean |
| a directory per year in the ocean |
| a directory per month of the year |
| a directory per day of the month |
| a file per profile of the day |
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| LATEST_DATA :
| a directory per year |
| a directory per month of the year |
| a directory per day of the month |
| a file per profile of the day |
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File name convention : R_XXXXXXX_YYYYMMDD_HHMM.nc
| R : R for real time data, D for delayed mode data |
| XXXXXXX : float wmo number |
| YYYYMMDD_HHMM : date and time of the profile |
| nc : netcdf format |
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