Common use of Access to parameter data Clause in Contracts

Access to parameter data. To get the list of parameters stored in the NetCDF file, the user should read the PARAMETER variable content. Then, to access the ‘best’ existing version of each parameter (<PARAM>) data, the user should: 1. Retrieve the data mode of the <PARAM> parameter from the PARAMETER_DATA_MODE variable; 2. Access the data: • If the data mode is ‘R’: in <PARAM> and <PARAM>_QC variables; • If the data mode is ‘A’ or ‘D’: in <PARAM>_ADJUSTED, <PARAM>_ADJUSTED_QC and <PARAM>_ADJUSTED_ERROR variables. 2 C- RAID drifters NetCDF data format version 1.2 2.1 Global attributes

Access to parameter data. To get the list of parameters stored in the NetCDF file, the user should read the PARAMETER variable content. Then, to access the ‘best’ existing version of each parameter (<PARAM>) data, the user should: 1. Retrieve the data mode of the <PARAM> parameter from the PARAMETER_DATA_MODE variable; 2. Access the data: • If the data mode is ‘R’: in <PARAM> and <PARAM>_QC variables; • If the data mode is ‘A’ or ‘D’: in <PARAM>_ADJUSTED, <PARAM>_ADJUSTED_QC and <PARAM>_ADJUSTED_ERROR variables. 2 C- RAID drifters NetCDF data format version 1.21.1 2.1 Global attributes