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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 Superseded by WOA05.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

overviewan outline showing sub-datasets of this dataset
dataset documentation
WOA05This dataset is replaced by World Ocean Atlas 2005

Datasets and variables

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

Independent Variables (Grids)

Time (time) grid: /T (months since 01-Jan) periodic (Jan) to (Dec) by 1.0 N= 12 pts :grid
Longitude (longitude) grid: /X (degree_east) periodic (0.5E) to (0.5W) by 1.0 N= 360 pts :grid
Latitude (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) (1100.0) (1200.0) (1300.0) (1400.0) (1500.0) (1750.0) (2000.0) (2500.0) (3000.0) (3500.0) (4000.0) (4500.0) (5000.0) (5500.0)] :grid

Other Info

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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: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 18:39:07 GMT

Data Views

SOURCES
NOAA[NCEP NODC NCDC PSL ESRL NCEP-DOE NESDIS NCEP-NCAR NGDC NCEI ]
NOAA NCDC[CDR USHCN GDCN Paleo GHCN CIRS GCPS ERSST GHCN_Daily SSMI DAILY PDO OISST CM ]
NOAA NCEP CPC[GLOBAL EVE Merged_Analysis CLIMAT CAMS CBO_V1 FEWS temperature GOB GHCN_CAMS GSOD DailyEVE GTS PRECL CA_SST CMORPH UNIFIED_PRCP REGIONAL CAMS_OPI Indices GMSM ]
NOAA NODC WOA01[Grid-1x1 Masks Grid-5x5 ]