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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 .

ftp://ftp.ifremer.fr/ifremer/argo
ftp://usgodae1.fnmoc.navy.mil/pub/outgoing/argo

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
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
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

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

 

 

Last update 03/05/2004
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