Definition

This parameter selects profiles according to their DAC.

Technical data handling for each float of the Argo array is under the responsibility of an unique Data Assembly Center. This restriction allows you to impose the DAC handler of profiles.

The parameter takes one or a coma separated list of strings to defined DAC names. Strings are NOT case sensitive, meaning 'CORIOLIS' is treated the same way as 'coriolis'.

NOTE: There's no pre-defined list of DAC names. To list those present in the NA-ARC database, you can use the service get function list:

?get=list&of=dac

Examples

The following example selects only profiles from Coriolis and AOML:

?get=n&dac=coriolis,aoml

Definition

This parameter selects profiles for one or a list of given floats WMOs.

This restrictions takes as parameter(s) one or a coma separated list of WMO(s).

Examples

The following query selects profiles for the float WMO 6900678:

?get=n&wmo=6900678

And the following query selects profiles for floats WMO 6900678 and 6900679:

?get=n&wmo=6900678,6900679

Definition

This parameter selects profiles according to their cycle numbers.

This restrictions takes as parameter(s) one or a coma separated list of cycle numbers, without distinction on WMOs.

NOTE: This parameter combined with restriction wmo allows to select a given profile for a given float (see examples).

Examples

The following query selects all profiles with a cycle number #12:

?get=n&cyc=12

And the following query selects all profiles with cycle number #1, #2 and #3:

?get=n&cyc=1,2,3 Using it with restriction wmo:

The following query gives the coordinates of the first cycle of float WMO 6900678:

?get=coord&wmo=6900678&cyc=1

If you check out the output of this query, you'll notice there are two profiles with a cycle number 1 for this float. These corresponds the ascending and descending profiles. At this time, there's no method to distinguish the direction of profiles in the NA-ARC web API. To be convince check out the corresponding ftp files with the following query:

?get=list&of=file&wmo=6900678&cyc=1

Definition

This parameter selects profiles with a WMO number containing a given pattern.

This restriction takes as parameter a numerical value of at least 2 digits.

Examples

The following query floats profiles with WMOs containing '49':

?get=nf&qwmo=49

Definition

Restrict profiles with/without a given variable.

These restrictions take as parameters a given variable among: pressure (p or pres), temperature (t or temp), salinity (s or psal) and oxygen (o or doxy). They allows you to select profiles having (par) or not having (nopar) measurements of those parameters.

Examples

The following query selects all profiles with oxygen measurements:

?get=n&par=o

And the following query selects all profiles without pressure measurements (this should not happens !):

?get=n&nopar=p