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OAS accession Detail for 0189890
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| Title: | NODC Standard Product: Documentation for NODC Standard File Formats and Related Codes, 1960 - 1996 (NCEI Accession 0189890) |
| Abstract: | This archival information package contains data file format descriptions and related codes needed to fully interpret NODC standard data formats developed and maintained by the NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) from the 1960s until use of these standard formats, codes, and identifiers were largely deprecated in the mid-1990s. Most NODC standard formats were identified with a 'C' or 'F', followed by a 3-digit number, e.g., C022 was the identifier for Low Resolution CTD/STD format and F022 was the identifier for High Resolution CTD/STD format. Data from other formats sent to NODC were usually converted from the original format to one of the standard formats. When no standard format was appropriate, the original data was identified with using 'L', followed by a 3-digit number, e.g., L130 was the identifier for HYDROCARBONS data in a format for which NODC had no standard equivalent. Some NODC standard formats were only identified by a name (e.g., Station Data 2, Surface Current Underway Data "SCUDS"). The Universal BathyThermograph (UBT) format was used by multiple standard data file formats (e.g., C128 Mechanical BT, C118 Expendable BT, and other types of BathyThermographs). NODC briefly maintained a product database known as the 'Ocean Profile Data Base' of 'OPDB'. The OPDB use a non-standard data format known a 'P3'. The P3 data format and the OPDB were discontinued in the early 2000s, but the available format information for this data format is included in 0-data/P3 subdirectory for documentary purposes. |
| Date received: | 20190607 |
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| Observation types: | documentation only - no observation type |
| Instrument types: | documentation only - no instrument type |
| Datatypes: | documentation only - no data type |
| Submitter: | Collins, Mr. Donald W. |
| Submitting institution: | US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; National Oceanographic Data Center |
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| Supplementary information: | Standard data file formats and codes used in those formats may be represented in two ways in this archival information package. A full list of all formats are in a file called NODC_Standard_Formats.txt and a list of codes used in those standard formats are in a file called NODC_Numeric_Codes.txt. Many, but not all standard formats for which there is a 'C' or 'F' identifier, have a separate file containing only the data file format description and any codes specifically used in that format, using the filename convention Cnnn_Format_Code.txt or Fnnn_Format_Code.txt (where 'Cnnn' or 'Fnnn' is the file format identifier as described in the Abstract). Some standard data file formats use no specific codes, so the filename convention for those data file formats is Cnnn_Format.txt or Fnnn_Format.txt. Some standard data file formats used a name rather than a 'C' or 'F' as the primary means of identifying those formats, e.g. Station Data 2 (SD2), Universal BathyThermograph (UBT), so the commonly-used name is used as the filename convention for those format description files. |
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| Metadata version: | 5 |
| Keydate: | 2019-06-07 15:29:53+00 |
| Editdate: | 2022-08-03 19:12:49+00 |