data: LEVITUS94 ANNUAL theta

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LEVITUS94 ANNUAL theta: potential temperature data

ANNUAL potential temperature from 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.

Independent Variables (Grids)

Longitude: grid: /X (degree_east) periodic (0.5E) to (0.5W) by 1.0 N= 360 pts :grid
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

datatype

realarraytype

filename

/Data/data1/lev94/lev94a.cdf

missing_value

NaN

units

Celsius_scale

standard units*

degree_Kelvin above 273.15

history

LEVITUS94 ANNUAL theta

World Ocean Atlas CD-ROM, Levitus et al., 1994
theta $theta$

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: Fri, 04 Aug 1995 19:31:46 GMT

Data Views

	X	Y	Z
LEVITUS94 ANNUAL theta[ X Y \| Z]	M	M	M

Filters

Here are some filters that are useful for manipulating data. There are actually many more available, but they have to be entered manually. See Ingrid Function Documentation for more information.

Monthly Climatology calculates a monthly climatology by averaging over all years.
anomalies calculates the difference between the (above) monthly climatology and the original data.
Integrate along X Y Z
Differentiate along X Y Z
Take differences along X Y Z