MERCATOR

We are receiving every week data from the ftp site:

ftp://ftp.mercator-ocean.fr/pub/users/ist_meteog/last

Instructions

1. Get the near weekly 600MB of compressed netcdf data into the folder \\guillaume\data\mercator\ist_meteog-mercatorPsy2v2r1v_RYYYYMMDD where YYYYMMDD is the date of the data release.
2. Unzip one or two datasets and open them with NcBrowse to see if they're not corrupted.
3. Reply to the following e-mail service-operationnel-ist-mercator@mercator-ocean.fr with the following subject produits Mercator-Océan pour IST : XX where XX=nominal or XX=dégradé wether the data is nominal or corrupted.
4. Copy the weekly data to a CD, label it with ist-mercator-yyyymmdd where yyyymmdd stands for the date of the release of the data.