Guide to IGOSS Data Archives and Exchange (BATHY and TESAC). Second Revised edition, 1993. [OBSOLETE?]

Abstract

This Guide is intended to document the procedures to be followed in archiving and exchanging BATHY/TESAC/TRACKOB/DRIFTER data' within the IGOSS & IODE systems. It describes the arrangements developed between IODE & IGOSS to share data so as to better serve the need of users. It is also intended to provide information on IGOSS data collection, data flow and data archival for scientists and engineers who wish to use the data and who are not familiar with the system. The Guide deals primarily with oceanographic data collected under IGOSS and reported in codes for oceanographic data [the WMO code forms are: FM 63-IX BATHY (report of bathythermal observation); FM 64-TX TESAC (temperature, salinity & current report from a sea station); FM 62-VI11 Ext. TRACKOB (report of marine surface observation [temperature, salinity and/or current] along a ship's track); FM 18-IX Ext. DRIFTER (report of a drifting buoy observation)]. As other types of IGOSS data may flow on the GTS (e.g., various kinds of observations coded along with the IGOSS Flexible Code (IFC) form, including sea-level data) additional mechanisms will have to be developed between IGOSS & IODE