NOAA NODC WOA98

NOAA NODC WOA98: World Ocean Atlas 1998, an atlas of objectively analyzed fields of major ocean parameters at monthly, seasonal, and annual time scales. Superceeded by WOA01.

Documents

overviewan outline showing sub-datasets of this dataset
dataset documentation
WOA01This dataset is replaced by World Ocean Atlas 2001

Datasets and variables

NOAA NODC WOA98 ANNUAL[se sd gridpt analyzed raw dist ]
NOAA NODC WOA98 MONTHLY[se sd dist gridpt analyzed raw ]
NOAA NODC WOA98 SEASONAL[se sd dist gridpt analyzed raw ]

Independent Variables (Grids)

Time (time) grid: /T (months since 01-Jan) periodic (Jan) to (Dec) by 1.0 N= 12 pts :grid
Longitude (longitude) grid: /X (degree_east) periodic (0.5E) to (0.5W) by 1.0 N= 360 pts :grid
Latitude (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

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References

Conkright, M.E., S. Levitus, T. O'Brien, T.P. Boyer, C. Stephens, D. Johnson, L. Stathoplos, O. Baranova, J. Antonov, R. Gelfeld, J. Burney, J. Rochester, & C. Forgy (1998) World Ocean Database 1998 Documentation and Quality Control. National Oceanographic Data Center, Silver Spring, MD.

Conkright, M.E., T.D. O'Brien, S. Levitus, T.P. Boyer, C. Stephens, J.I. Antonov, 1998: World Ocean Atlas 1998 Vol. 10: Nutrient and Chlorophyll of the Atlantic Ocean. NOAA Atlas NESDIS 36, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.

Last updated: Tue, 19 May 2015 12:22:25 GMT

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