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LEVITUS94

LEVITUS94: World Ocean Atlas 1994, an atlas of objectively analyzed fields of major ocean parameters at the annual, seasonal, and monthly time scales. Superceeded by WOA98.

Documents

overviewan outline showing sub-datasets of this dataset
dataset documentation
oceanviews
oceanviews2
WOA98World Ocean Atlas 1998 replaces LEVITUS94

Datasets and variables

ANNUAL LEVITUS94 ANNUAL[O2SAT PO4 temp rhoa AOU po4* potdens theta O2 NO3 sal SIO2 ]
MONTHLY LEVITUS94 MONTHLY[temp potdens theta Zmix sal ]
SEASONAL LEVITUS94 SEASONAL[temp sal O2SAT O2 AOU ]

Independent Variables (Grids)

Time grid: /T (months since 01-Jan) periodic (Jan) to (Dec) by 1. N= 12 pts :grid
Longitude grid: /X (degree_east) periodic (0.5E) to (0.5W) by 1. N= 360 pts :grid
Latitude grid: /Y (degree_north) ordered (89.5S) to (89.5N) by 1. 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:NOAA
iridl:Ocean

References

M.E. Conkright, S. Levitus, T.P. Boyer. World Ocean Atlas 1994 Volume 1: Nutrients, number 1, 1994

S. Levitus, T.P. Boyer. World Ocean Atlas 1994 Volume 2: Oxygen, number 2, 1994

S. Levitus, R. Burgett, T.P. Boyer. World Ocean Atlas 1994 Volume 3: Nutrients, number 3, 1994

S. Levitus, T.P. Boyer. World Ocean Atlas 1994 Volume 4: Temperature, number 4, 1994

Last updated: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:03:32 GMT