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The World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) Global Hydrographic Climatology

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| DOI: 10.5065/GS51-V170
 
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Abstract:

The WOCE Global Hydrographic Climatology has been derived using World Ocean Data 1998 (WOD98), described in dataset ds285.0, and profiles from the WOCE Hydrographic Programme, with the exception of a few cruises, collected between 1990 and 1998. Several other small data collections from Germany, Russia, and France were also included. Data quality checks, cruise bias corrections, averaging on isopycnal surfaces, and finally optimal interpolation on 45 standard levels was used to determine the climatologies and error estimates of salinity, temperature, oxygen, and a suite of nutrients. Many more details and figures are available in Gouretski et al. 2004, WOCE Global Hydrographic Climatology.

Temporal Range:
1874-10-11 to 1993-06-03
Variables:
Nitrate Ocean Mixed Layer Oxygen Phosphate
Salinity Silicate Water Temperature
Data Types:
Grid
Spatial Coverage:
Longitude Range: Westernmost=180W Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=80S Northernmost=90N Detailed coverage information
Data Contributors:
DE/BSH/DOD
Deutsches Ozeanographisches Datenzentrum, Bundesamt Fur Seeschifffahrt Und Hydrographie, Germany
Related Resources:
BSH web site
Publications:
Gouretski, V.V. and K.P. Koltermann, 2004: WOCE Global Hydrographic Climatology. 35/2004, Berichte des Bundesamtes fur Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie, 52 pp.
Total Volume:
1 GB
Data Formats:
ASCII (see dataset documentation)
Metadata Record:
Data License:
Data LicenseThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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