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OAS accession Detail for 0094887
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| Title: | NODC Standard Product: World Ocean Database 2009 (2 disc set) (NCEI Accession 0094887) |
| Abstract: | World Ocean Database 2009 (WOD09) is a collection of scientifically quality-controlled ocean profile and plankton data that includes measurements of temperature, salinity, oxygen, phosphate, nitrate, silicate, chlorophyll, alkalinity, pH, pCO2, TCO2, Tritium, delta-13Carbon, delta-14Carbon, delta-18Oxygen, Freons, Helium, delta-3Helium, Neon, and plankton. A discussion of data sources is provided. Data are both historical and modern with the most recent data from 2008. World Ocean Database 2009 is an update of World Ocean Database 2005. It expands on the older version by including new variables, data types, and additional historical, as well as modern, observations. It contains all data from earliest observation through our collection as of Dec. 31, 2009. The 2009 database, updated from the 2005 edition, is significantly larger providing approximately 9.1 million temperature profiles and 3.5 million salinity reports. The 2009 database also captures 29 categories of scientific information from the oceans, including oxygen levels and chemical tracers, plus information on gases and isotopes that can be used to trace the movement of ocean currents. An online version of the World Ocean Database is updated quarterly. DVD-ROM Disc 1 contains: OSD, Ocean Station Data Low & High-resolution CTD/XCTD, Conductivity-Temperature-Depth data Plankton data DVD-ROM Disc 2 contains: MBT, Mechanical / Digital / Micro Bathythermograph data XBT, Expendable Bathythermograph data SUR, Surface-only data APB, Autonomous Pinniped data MRB, Moored buoy data PFL, Profiling float data DRB, Drifting buoy data UOR, Undulating Oceanographic Recorder data GLD, Glider data This DVD contains six directories named: CODES (contains codes associated with the secondary header, biological header, and taxa data); DATA (contains yearly sorted data, dating from 1773 though 2009); DOC (contains the documentation); ODV (contains the Ocean Data View software for viewing the WOD09 data, developed by Dr. Reiner Schlitzer, AWI. This software will decompress selected files and offers users several options for viewing the WOD09 data. ODV works on PCs only); PROGRAMS (contains source code and executables for programs which are examples of how to read the data and can be used to reformat the data into comma-delimited or space-delimited forms); UTILS (contains the gzip utility for uncompressing WOD09 data files). |
| Date received: | 20100901 |
| Start date: | 17730113 |
| End date: | 20090120 |
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| West boundary: | -180 |
| East boundary: | 180 |
| North boundary: | 90 |
| South boundary: | -90 |
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| Submitting institution: | US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; National Oceanographic Data Center |
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| Number of observations: | 9147469 |
| Supplementary information: | The contents of these DVD-ROM discs are available as 1) a compressed .tar file via the download data button (download size limit may prevent obtaining all data in one transaction); 2) a complete ISO 9660 disc image from which an identical replica of the original disc may be burned on new CD/DVD media by navigating to the .iso file in the data/0-data/disc_image/ subdirectory. |
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| Metadata version: | 38 |
| Keydate: | 2012-09-07 16:59:49+00 |
| Editdate: | 2024-11-15 14:03:18+00 |