ftp://ftp.ifremer.fr/ifremer/coriolis/mercator

Coriolis performs a weekly distribution of all temperature, salinity and current measurements controlled during the week.
The control involves automatic QC, visual QC and statistical QC (objective analyses). More on quality control.

Organization

The distribution directory contains one file per week, per type of data.

File naming convention

	CO_XX_DATE_TIME_DATEMIN_DATEMAX.nc
	CO : Coriolis bigram
	XX : data type (see below)
	DATE_TIME : day and time of distribution
	DATE_MIN : date of the oldest observation in the file
	DATE_MAX : date of the newest observation in the file

Example

Measurements controlled and distributed on January 3rd 2006 :

	CO_PF_20060103_1215_20051210_20060103.nc
	CO_MO_20060103_1219_20051225_20060101.nc
	CO_TE_20060103_1217_20051204_20060102.nc
	CO_BA_20060103_1216_20051205_20060102.nc

File format

Coriolis NetCDF profile

Data type

	PF Argo floats
	XB XBT ou XCTD profiles from research or commercial ships
	CT CTD from research vessels
	BA BATHY profiles from GTS
	TE TESAC profiles from GTS
	MO profiles from moorings