NOAA NODC WOA01

NOAA NODC WOA01: World Ocean Atlas 2001, an atlas of objectively analyzed fields of major ocean parameters at monthly, seasonal, and annual time scales. Superseded by WOA05.

Documents

overview	an outline showing sub-datasets of this dataset
dataset documentation
WOA05	World Ocean Atlas 2005

Datasets and variables

Grid-1x1	NOAA NODC WOA01 Grid-1x1[Seasonal Monthly Annual ]
Grid-5x5	NOAA NODC WOA01 Grid-5x5[Seasonal Monthly Annual ]
Masks	NOAA NODC WOA01 Masks[basin landsea ]

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.) (20.) (30.) (50.) (75.) (100.) (125.) (150.) (200.) (250.) (300.) (400.) (500.) (600.) (700.) (800.) (900.) (1000.) (1100.) (1200.) (1300.) (1400.) (1500.) (1750.) (2000.) (2500.) (3000.) (3500.) (4000.) (4500.) (5000.) (5500.)] :grid

Other Info

iridl:hasSemantics: iridl:Ocean

References

M.E. Conkright, and Boyer, T. P. 2002: World Ocean Atlas 2001: Objective Analyses, Data Statistics, and Figures, CD-ROM Documentation. National Oceanographic Data Center, Silver Spring, MD, 17 pp.

Levitus, S. E.. Climatological atlas of the world ocean, NOAA Professional Paper 13, US Government Printing Office, Washington DC, 1982

Last updated: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 21:04:17 GMT