JMA ARGO FLOAT DATA


1. IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION

Name JMA ARGO FLOAT DATA
Metadata Identifier JMA_ARGO120230727081507-en

2. CONTACT

2.1 CONTACT on DATASET

Name Marine Division
Organization Marine Division, Global Environment and Marine Department, Japan Meteorological Agency
Address 1-3-4 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100-8122, Japan
TEL +81-3-3212-8341
E-mail seadata@climar.kishou.go.jp

2.2 CONTACT on PROJECT

3. DOCUMENT AUTHOR

Name Marine Division
Organization Marine Division, Global Environment and Marine Department, Japan Meteorological Agency
E-mail seadata@climar.kishou.go.jp

4. DATASET CREATOR

Name Marine Division
Organization Marine Division, Global Environment and Marine Department, Japan Meteorological Agency
E-mail seadata@climar.kishou.go.jp

5. DATE OF THIS DOCUMENT

2023-07-27

6. DATE OF DATASET

  • creation : 2010-10-12

7. DATASET OVERVIEW

7.1 Abstract

This is a data set of Argo floats (most of the floats automatically measure water temperature and salinity from sea surface to 2000m depth.) of the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).

7.2 Topic Category(ISO19139)

  • oceans

7.3 Temporal Extent

Begin Date 2012-04-01
End Date Under Continuation
Temporal Characteristics About 5 day

7.4 Geographic Bounding Box

North bound latitude 50
West bound longitude 120
Eastbound longitude 170
South bound latitude 20

7.5 Grid

7.6 Geographic Description

7.7 Keywords

7.7.1 Keywords on Dataset

Keyword Type Keyword Keyword thesaurus Name
theme Climate, Water GEOSS
theme Oceans > Ocean Temperature > Water Temperature, Oceans > Salinity/Density > Salinity GCMD_science
theme In Situ Ocean-based Platforms > FLOATS GCMD_platform
place Asia > Eastern Asia > Japan Country

7.7.2 Keywords on Project

7.8 Online Resource

7.9 Data Environmental Information

7.10 Distribution Information

name version specification
ASCII (no information) TESAC (WMO code FM64)

8. DATA PROCESSING

8.1 Data Processing (1)

8.1.1 General Explanation of the data producer's knowledge about the lineage of a dataset

JMA decodes the data of Argo floats and converts them into the ASCII files with TESAC format. The data are displayed on the web site in TESAC format).

(TESAC; WMO code FM64 url: http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/WMOCodes/WMO306_vI1/Amendments/Editorial/FM_64_corr.pdf)

8.1.2 Data Source

Data Source Citation Name Description of derived parameters and processing techniques used

9. DATA REMARKS

JMA checks the quality of the profile data along with the "Argo quality control manual" established by Argo Data Management Team.

10. DATA POLICY

10.1 Data Policy by the Data Provider

10.2 Data Policy by the Project

11. LICENSE

12. DATA SOURCE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

12.1 Acknowledge the Data Provider

12.2 Acknowledge the Project

13. REFERENCES