This dataset contains in situ measurements from Conductivity Temperature Depth (CTD) profiles. It provides salinity, density, temperature and sound velocity of the water column. The CTDs were deployed from a research vessel to collect each profile. Each profile is provided in a separate netCDF-4 data file, which are organized into subdirectories by the year and month of the profile's acquisition:

Directory contents are as follows:

2015/ - The CTD profiles are organized into subdirectories by year of the profile's acquisition.
  2015/07/ - They're further organized by month inside another group subdirectories.
    2015/07/OMG_Ocean_CTD_L2_20150725071758.nc - netCDF-4 files are named according to the convention described below.
...
2020/ -

File naming convention for the CTD profile netCDF-4 files follows this format:

OMG_Ocean_CTD_L2_[YYYYMMDDHHMMSS].nc; e.g. OMG_Ocean_CTD_L2_20150725071758.nc, where YYYYMMDDHHMMSS==20150725071758 refers to the timestamp marking the beginning of the data acquisition for the contained profile.

The dataset landing page can be found at 
https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/OMG_L2_CTD

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24 August 2020