NOAA NODC WOA98

NOAA NODC WOA98: World Ocean Atlas 1998, an atlas of objectively analyzed fields of major ocean parameters at monthly, seasonal, and annual time scales. Superceeded by WOA01.

Documents

overview	an outline showing sub-datasets of this dataset
dataset documentation
WOA01	World Ocean Atlas 2001

Datasets and variables

ANNUAL	NOAA NODC WOA98 ANNUAL[analyzed se sd dist gridpt raw ]
MONTHLY	NOAA NODC WOA98 MONTHLY[analyzed se sd dist gridpt raw ]
SEASONAL	NOAA NODC WOA98 SEASONAL[analyzed se sd dist gridpt raw ]

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

Conkright, M.E., S. Levitus, T. O'Brien, T.P. Boyer, C. Stephens, D. Johnson, L. Stathoplos, O. Baranova, J. Antonov, R. Gelfeld, J. Burney, J. Rochester, & C. Forgy (1998) World Ocean Database 1998 Documentation and Quality Control. National Oceanographic Data Center, Silver Spring, MD.

Conkright, M.E., T.D. O'Brien, S. Levitus, T.P. Boyer, C. Stephens, J.I. Antonov, 1998: World Ocean Atlas 1998 Vol. 10: Nutrient and Chlorophyll of the Atlantic Ocean. NOAA Atlas NESDIS 36, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.

Last updated: Fri, 26 May 2006 14:40:29 GMT