1. 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

2. 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

3. Argo Monthly Archives Web Site

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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.

7. Comments & Questions

8. Background