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OAS accession Detail for 9600094, meta_version: 4. Current meta_version is: 13
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| Title: | CURRENT - DIRECTION and Other Data (NODC Accession 9600094) |
| Abstract: | The Generalized Digital Environmental Model (GDEM) is a four-dimensional (4-D) steady-state digital model of ocean temperature and salinity. The model consists of gridded sets of coefficients with a grid spacing of 30 arcminutes (') in space and 3, 6, or 12 months in time with the exception of the coefficient describing sea-surface temperature, which is gridded at a 1-month interval. Utilizing these coefficient sets with the appropriate one-dimensional linear or cubic spline interpolation in time, vertical profiles of historical temperature and salinity extending from the surface to the bottom may be computed for a desired time for all locations where the water depth is at least 100 m. The VGDEM is a 4-D model of ocean temperature variability. A number of accumulations and parameters exists for each grid cell such that statistics on the observations can be derived; statistics based on comparing the observations with GDEM can be computed; and statistics computed for the mixed-layer depth and the in-layer and below-layer gradients. The percent of the observations suggesting half-channel is also available. Variability models will be constructed only in the ocean basins where data density permits. Therefore, models for the South Atlantic, South Pacific, and Arctic Oceans will not be developed at this time. |
| Date received: | 19960620 |
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| Seanames: | Arctic Ocean, Black Sea, Gulf of Aden, Indian Ocean, Japan Sea, Mediterranean Sea, North Atlantic Ocean, North Pacific Ocean, Persian Gulf (Gulf of Iran), Red Sea, South Atlantic Ocean, South Pacific Ocean, Yellow Sea (Hwang Hai) |
| West boundary: | -180 |
| East boundary: | 180 |
| North boundary: | 90 |
| South boundary: | -60 |
| Observation types: | derived products, physical, profile |
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| Datatypes: | BATHYMETRY, DEPTH - BOTTOM, DEPTH - OBSERVATION, SALINITY, SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE, SOUND VELOCITY, TEMPERATURE, WATER TEMPERATURE |
| Submitter: | Crew, Thomas |
| Submitting institution: | US Navy; Naval Oceanographic Office |
| Collecting institutions: | US Navy; Naval Oceanographic Office |
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| Supplementary information: | Note: Metadata for this accession were extracted from a legacy database maintained by the U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). The design of the database did not exactly reflect the FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM). Principal Investigator (PI) and organization contact information accurately represents all available information from the legacy database at the time that this description was created. However, proper attribution of a PI to a specific institution or the role (submitting or collecting) taken by an institution may not be correct due to inexact mapping between fields in the legacy database and the CSDGM. Due to this uncertainty, the contact information was initially recorded in the Supplemental Information element of the CSDGM description. To develop more accurate metadata, the NODC reviews metadata for all accessions on an ongoing basis. Points of contact for this data set include: Contact info: Agency: US NAVY; NAVAL OCEANOGRAPHIC OFFICE PI: Crew, Thomas Address: address: 1002 BALCH BOULEVARD city: STENNIS SPACE CENTER, BAY ST. LOUIS state: MS postal: 39522 country: UNITED STATES |
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| Metadata version: | 4 |
| Keydate: | 2003-10-24 17:46:40+00 |
| Editdate: | 2011-11-02 20:18:22+00 |