World Ocean Database and World Ocean Atlas

The World Ocean Database (WOD) has global ocean observed and standard depth data profiles. The World Ocean Atlas (WOA) has objectively analyzed climatological mean fields on both a quarter-degree and on a one-degree longitude by latitude grids. The gridded analyses are for annual, seasonal, and monthly means of six oceanographic variables: temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, nitrate, phosphate, and silicate on standard levels (typically at 102 depths, dependent on data availability). The products were derived at the Ocean Climate Laboratory (OCL) of the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). Development of the World Ocean products began in 1982 and they have been updated in 1994, 1998, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2013, and 2018. The featured products are now based on the 2018 versions. Some products from older version are still unique.

The WOD is the world's largest profile collection covering the global ocean and contains measurements from 1800 through 2018. The WOA are climatological grids at fixed depths derived from quality checked WOD profiles. This is a recognized world-wide standard and is often referenced in oceanographic research.

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  • Zaihua Ji
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    UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive

Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1770-01-01
    End:  2018-07-23

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1770-01-01
Temporal Range End 2018-07-23
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 90
Bounding Box South Lat -90
Bounding Box West Long -180
Bounding Box East Long 180
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links

Related Resource #1 : NODC's Ocean Climate Laboratory
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format NetCDF4 (Binary)
Standardized Resource Format NetCDF
Asset Size 287787 MB
Legal Constraints

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Access Constraints None
Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name Zaihua Ji
Resource Support Email zji@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive
Distributor NCAR Research Data Archive
Metadata Contact Name N/A
Metadata Contact Email rdahelp@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization NCAR Research Data Archive

Author Ocean Climate Laboratory, National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Publisher Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory
Publication Date 1984-08-17
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/BC03-2G95
Alternate Identifier d285000
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category oceans
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2024-08-04T02:27:00Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.rda::d285000
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Ocean Climate Laboratory, National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce. (1984). World Ocean Database and World Ocean Atlas. Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/BC03-2G95. Accessed 06 September 2024.

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