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World Ocean Database Select and Search

The World Ocean Database (WOD) is a NOAA NCEI data product and an activity of the IODE (International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange) as well as the World Data Service for Oceanography of the World Data System hosted at NCEI.

The WODselect web application enables users to retrieve and access the World Ocean Database data as well as quarterly updated/added new data by utilizing various search criteria specified by the user. The query results will provide a distribution map, cast count, and the option to select data formats such as WOD native (ascii), Comma Separated Value (.csv), or netCDF (.nc) based on customized search criteria. The data will be extracted and placed on the NCEI data server, and the data links will be provided in the user's email. More detailed information can be found in the Introduction to the WOD and User's Manual.

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To build a user defined search query:

  1. Place check mark in front of any number of criteria.
  2. Press the "Build a query" button.

(If any criteria below are not checked, the default will apply).

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SEARCH CRITERIA: (definitions) DEFAULT:
Geographic Coordinates - whole world
Observation Dates - e.g., Year(s), Month(s), Day(s) - all years/months/days
Dataset - e.g., OSD, CTD, XBT - all datasets
Measured Variables - e.g., Temperature, Salinity, Nutrients - all available variables
Biology - e.g., Phytoplankton, Zooplankton - all available plankton
Deepest Measurement - all depths
Country - all countries
Ship/Platform - all ships/platforms
Cruise - all cruises
Accession # - all accessions
Project - all projects
Institute - all institutes
Data Exclusion Using WOD Quality Control Flags - no exclusion
Data Additions - WOD23 released data

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