Global Argo Data Repository Status Report for 2009 Charles Sun US National Oceanographic Data Center 10th Argo Data Management Team Meeting 30 September – 2 October 2009, Toulouse, France
Highlights of Activities Performed an automated procedure of “mirroring” a local Argo data set in sync with the Argo GDAC server at Monterey, CA. Implemented an automated procedure for acquiring the CLIVAR & Carbon Hydrographic Data Office (CCHDO) data from the Web for archive accession. Identified the deficiency of the Argo NetCDF format convention and developed a strategy for improving the Argo convention in compliance with the Climate and Forecast (CF) metadata convention. Produced monthly archives of the Argo data archived at the NODC and populated them at http://argo.nodc.noaa.gov/
Argo Monthly Archives Web Site http://argo.nodc.noaa.gov/
GADR Web Server Statistics Monthly average of requests (files): 595,908 in 2007 1,021,903 in 2008 1,006,767 in 2009* Monthly average of data download: 23.55 GB in 2007 42.41 GB in 2008 54.57 GB in 2009* *ending August 2009
Argo User data and File Type Report 2007 2008 extensaion # reqs % reqs % bytes .txt 903,161 12.50 44.23 1,133,281 9.23 42.26 .nc 5,383,966 74.53 28.19 9,402,240 76.57 27.99 .tgz 111,439 1.54 13.6 169,826 1.38 11.38 .kmz 904 0.01 1.58 13,262 0.11 8.42 .htm 648,543 8.98 5.65 1,032,622 8.41 4.21 total 7,223,815 285.03GB 12,279,957 509.79GB
Future Plan Continue GADR operations. Continue to acquire the CCHDO data via the Internet on a quarterly basis. Continue to populate the Argo data archives on a monthly basis.
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