NEWS

Metadata weekly report

Once a week, a global monitoring of Argo meta-data files is performed.

A list of 24 highly desirable meta-data parameters is defined. For each float of each DAC, each missing or incorrect highly desirable parameter is pointed out.


higly desirable meta-data

mandatory format

example

DATA_TYPE

"Argo meta-data" ;

DATA_TYPE = "Argo meta-data" ;

FORMAT_VERSION

"2.1 " ;

FORMAT_VERSION = "2.1 " ;

HANDBOOK_VERSION

"1.2 " ;

HANDBOOK_VERSION = "1.2 " ;

DATE_CREATION

YYYYMMDDHHMISS

DATE_CREATION = "20040210124422" ;

DATE_UPDATE

YYYYMMDDHHMISS

DATE_UPDATE = "20040210124422" ;

PLATFORM_NUMBER

XXXXX or XXXXXXX

PLATFORM_NUMBER = "5900077 " ;

PTT

not empty

PTT = "23978 " ;

TRANS_SYSTEM

see reference table 10

TRANS_SYSTEM = "ARGOS " ;

TRANS_SYSTEM_ID

not empty

TRANS_SYSTEM_ID = "14281 " ;

POSITIONING_SYSTEM

see reference table 9

POSITIONING_SYSTEM = "ARGOS " ;

PLATFORM_MODEL

not empty

PLATFORM_MODEL = "SOLO" ;

PLATFORM_SERIAL_NO

not empty

PLATFORM_SERIAL_NO = "1189" ;

DIRECTION

"A" or "D"

DIRECTION = "A" ;

DATA_CENTRE

see reference table 4

DATA_CENTRE = "AO" ;

LAUNCH_DATE

YYYYMMDDHHMISS

LAUNCH_DATE = "20010717000100" ;

LAUNCH_LATITUDE

not empty, -90 <= real <= 90

LAUNCH_LATITUDE = -7.91400003433228 ;

LAUNCH_LONGITUDE

not empty, -180 <= real <= 180

LAUNCH_LONGITUDE = -179.828338623047 ;

LAUNCH_QC

see reference table 2

LAUNCH_QC = "1" ;

START_DATE

YYYYMMDDHHMISS

START_DATE = "20010702000000" ;

START_DATE_QC

see reference table 2

START_DATE_QC = "2" ;

PARAMETER

see reference table 3

PARAMETER ="PRES","TEMP","PSAL" ;

CYCLE_TIME

not empty

CYCLE_TIME = 10.0083 ;

DEEPEST_PRESSURE

not empty

DEEPEST_PRESSURE = 1092 ;

PARKING_PRESSURE

not empty

PARKING_PRESSURE = 1000 ;