Float Data – Single Float Profiles

Data files for individual SOCCOM floats are available in ODV format (include measured parameters as well as derived carbon parameters) and netCDF files (Argo data system – measured parameters only).  NetCDF and matlab format including derived carbon parameters for the entire float data set are available

ODV format

Individual SOCCOM float data files are available by anonymous FTP (note that access via ftp is no longer be fully supported at all institutions):

• Low resolution, QC/Adjusted float data
• High resolution, QC/Adjusted float data

The low resolution files have CTD data only at the depths where chemistry is sampled. The high resolution files have CTD data with 2 meter resolution above 1000 m and chemistry data only at the depths where it is sampled. These files are about 10x larger than the low resolution files.

• Raw (not QC/adjusted), low resolution files
• Raw, high resolution files

netCDF format (Argo data system)

SOCCOM float data are also available via the Argo data system, but the Argo files include only measured parameters and not derived carbon parameters available in the SOCCOM data files.  Also note that access via ftp is no longer be fully supported at all institutions.  To access data from a particular SOCCOM float on the Argo system, use either of the links below, substituting in the float number of interest in place of “5904188”.  For remote access, it is now recommended that wget or https tools (such as MATLAB’s “websave” function) be used instead of ftp.

And the links would be:

https://data-argo.ifremer.fr/dac

https://usgodae.org/pub/outgoing/argo/dac