dataset: LEVITUS94 MONTHLY

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LEVITUS94 MONTHLY

MONTHLY from LEVITUS94: World Ocean Atlas 1994, an atlas of objectively analyzed fields of major ocean parameters at the annual, seasonal, and monthly time scales. Superceeded by WOA98.

Documents

outline

an outline showing all sub-datasets and variables contained in this dataset

Datasets and variables

potential density	LEVITUS94 MONTHLY potdens[ X Y Z \| T]
Salinity	LEVITUS94 MONTHLY sal[ X Y Z \| T]
Temperature	LEVITUS94 MONTHLY temp[ X Y Z \| T]
potential temperature	LEVITUS94 MONTHLY theta[ X Y Z \| T]
mixed layer depth	LEVITUS94 MONTHLY Zmix[ X Y \| T]

Independent Variables (Grids)

Time	grid: /T (months since 01-Jan) periodic (Jan) to (Dec) by 1.0 N= 12 pts :grid
Longitude	grid: /X (degree_east) periodic (0.5E) to (0.5W) by 1.0 N= 360 pts :grid
Latitude	grid: /Y (degree_north) ordered (89.5S) to (89.5N) by 1.0 N= 180 pts :grid
Depth	grid: /Z (m) ordered [ (0.0) (10.0) (20.0) (30.0) (50.0) (75.0) (100.0) (125.0) (150.0) (200.0) (250.0) (300.0) (400.0) (500.0) (600.0) (700.0) (800.0) (900.0) (1000.0)] :grid

References

M.E. Conkright, S. Levitus, T.P. Boyer. World Ocean Atlas 1994 Volume 1: Nutrients, number 1, 1994

S. Levitus, T.P. Boyer. World Ocean Atlas 1994 Volume 2: Oxygen, number 2, 1994

S. Levitus, R. Burgett, T.P. Boyer. World Ocean Atlas 1994 Volume 3: Nutrients, number 3, 1994

S. Levitus, T.P. Boyer. World Ocean Atlas 1994 Volume 4: Temperature, number 4, 1994

Last updated: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 14:26:32 GMT

Data Views

	X	Y	Z
LEVITUS94[ANNUAL SEASONAL MONTHLY ]
LEVITUS94 ANNUAL rhoa[ X Y \| Z]	M	M	D
LEVITUS94 SEASONAL[AOU sal O2 temp O2SAT ]
LEVITUS94 ANNUAL[O2 NO3 rhoa O2SAT po4* potdens sal theta SIO2 temp AOU PO4 ]
LEVITUS94 MONTHLY[potdens sal theta Zmix temp ]