THE OCEANOGRAPHER'S TOOLKIT | Common Data Formats

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Authors

Larry Atkinson | Oceanography Co-Editor

Steve Hankin | NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA, USA

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Imagine that you were handed a disk full of data saying nothing but, "Plot it up!" With common data formats that are machine independent and self-describing, you could do that and expect success.

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Citation

Atkinson, L., and S. Hankin. 1995. The oceanographer's toolkit: Common data formats. Oceanography 8(3):100–101, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.1995.07.

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