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Global Temperature and Salinity Profile Programme (GTSPP) Data, 1985-present

Metadata Updated: June 10, 2023

The Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Programme (GTSPP) develops and maintains a global ocean temperature and salinity resource with data that are both up-to-date and of the highest quality. It is a joint World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) program. It includes data from XBTs, CTDs, moored and drifting buoys, and PALACE floats. For information about organizations contributing data to GTSPP, see http://gosic.org/goos/GTSPP-data-flow.htm . The U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) maintains the GTSPP Continuously Managed Data Base and releases new 'best-copy' data once per month.

WARNING: This dataset has a lot of data. If you request too much data, your request will fail. * If you don't specify a longitude and latitude bounding box, don't request more than a month's data at a time. * If you do specify a longitude and latitude bounding box, you can request data for a proportionally longer time period. Requesting data for a specific station_id may be slow, but it works.

*** This ERDDAP dataset has data for the entire world for all available times (currently, up to and including the July 2022 data) but is a subset of the original NODC 'best-copy' data. It only includes data where the quality flags indicate the data is 1=CORRECT, 2=PROBABLY GOOD, or 5=MODIFIED. It does not include some of the metadata, any of the history data, or any of the quality flag data of the original dataset. You can always get the complete, up-to-date dataset (and additional, near-real-time data) from the source: https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/GTSPP/ . Specific differences are: * Profiles with a position_quality_flag or a time_quality_flag other than 1|2|5 were removed. * Rows with a depth (z) value less than -0.4 or greater than 10000 or a z_variable_quality_flag other than 1|2|5 were removed. * Temperature values less than -4 or greater than 40 or with a temperature_quality_flag other than 1|2|5 were set to NaN. * Salinity values less than 0 or greater than 41 or with a salinity_quality_flag other than 1|2|5 were set to NaN. * Time values were converted from "days since 1900-01-01 00:00:00" to "seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00".

See the Quality Flag definitions on page 5 and "Table 2.1: Global Impossible Parameter Values" on page 61 of https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/GTSPP/document/qcmans/GTSPP_RT_QC_Manual_20090916.pdf . The Quality Flag definitions are also at https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/GTSPP/document/qcmans/qcflags.htm .

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License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Date August 10, 2022
Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
Metadata Updated Date June 10, 2023
Reference Date(s) August 10, 2022 (creation)
Frequency Of Update

Metadata Source

Harvested from Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Date August 10, 2022
Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
Metadata Updated Date June 10, 2023
Reference Date(s) August 10, 2022 (creation)
Responsible Party NOAA NESDIS NODC (IN295) (Point of Contact)
Contact Email
Guid erdGtsppBest
Access Constraints
Bbox East Long 179.999
Bbox North Lat 90.0
Bbox South Lat -78.579
Bbox West Long -180.0
Coupled Resource [{"title": [], "href": ["#DataIdentification"], "uuid": []}, {"title": [], "href": ["#DataIdentification"], "uuid": []}, {"title": [], "href": ["#DataIdentification"], "uuid": []}]
Frequency Of Update
Harvest Object Id 32efdc9a-608f-464c-a6d7-fb4a80bbc5fc
Harvest Source Id 817069b7-5f4e-4664-9e6b-615af3dfcf2d
Harvest Source Title Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory
Licence
Lineage 2022-08-01 csun writeGTSPPnc40.f90 Version 1.8 .tgz files from ftp.nodc.noaa.gov /pub/data.nodc/gtspp/bestcopy/netcdf (https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/GTSPP/) 2022-08-10 Most recent ingest, clean, and reformat at ERD (erd.data at noaa.gov).
Metadata Language eng
Metadata Type geospatial
Old Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-180.0, -78.579], [179.999, -78.579], [179.999, 90.0], [-180.0, 90.0], [-180.0, -78.579]]]}
Progress
Spatial Data Service Type ERDDAP tabledap
Spatial Reference System
Spatial Harvester True
Temporal Extent Begin 1985-02-15T00:00:00Z
Temporal Extent End 2022-07-25T11:35:00Z

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