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WOD01: World Ocean Database 2001
Citation
National Oceanographic Data Center (2001). World Ocean Database 2001: scientific datasets observed and standard level oceanographic data [CD-ROM]. NOAA: Silver Spring. 8 cd-roms pp. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/741
Contact: National Oceanographic Data Center (NOAA-NODC), more
Availability: Unrestricted
The data are freely available to anybody and may be used for any purpose. Usage acknowledgement may be required
Description
World Ocean Database 2001 (WOD01) is comprised of 8 CD-ROMs and contains in situ profile data such as temperature, salinity, nutrients, oxygen, chlorophyll, plankton biomass data and more. It is an update to the World Ocean Database 1998, plus it contains some new parameters, and additional historical as well as modern observations.
Scope
Themes:
Meteorology, Physical
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Chemical oceanography, Monitoring, Oceanography, Physical oceanography, World Ocean
Geographical coverage
World Ocean
Temporal coverage
Till 2001
Parameters
% Oxygen (O)
Alkalinity
Chlorophyll
Nitrate (NO3-)
Nitrite (NO2-)
pH
Phosphate (PO43-)
Salinity
Silicate (SiO44-)
Temperature in water
Zooplankton biomass
Contributors
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS), more, data creator
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), more, data creator
Related datasets
Child dataset:
NODC World Ocean Database 2001: Plankton Data, more
Previous version:
WOD98: World Ocean Database 1998, more
Following version:
WOD05: World Ocean Database 2005, more
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2006-01-23
Information last updated: 2013-10-29
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