Ocean
Oceanic variables include sea surface temperature, salinity, currents, air-sea heat fluxes, ocean heat content, and much more. Overview pages summarize and compare selected datasets of a given variable.
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Sub-categories
Climate datasets
Argo Ocean Temperature and Salinity Profiles
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Argo is an array of over 4100 profiling floats distributed almost uniformly across the global oceans. First deployed in 2000, Argo floats provide temperature and…
Main variables and Earth System components
Ocean Salinity Sub Surface Salinity Sub Surface TemperatureExperts contributing reviews
- Scanderbeg, Megan | Purkey, Sarah | Willis, Josh
World Ocean Atlas 2013 (WOA13)
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The World Ocean Atlas (WOA) is a set of climatological mean, gridded fields of oceanographic variables based on in-situ measurements from a wide variety of sources. …
Main variables and Earth System components
Ocean Dissolved Oxygen phosphate potential temperature silicate SST - sea surface temperature Sub Surface Salinity Sub Surface Temperature Sub-surface data-
Timestep
- Climatology, Monthly, Seasonal
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Domain
- Global
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Collections
- Diagnostic Data Sets, NCAR-DOE-CESM, oceandiagnostics
Experts contributing reviews
- Mishonov, Alexey
SeaWIFS: ocean bio-optical and carbon properties
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The purpose of the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) Project is to provide quantitative data on global ocean bio-optical properties and to assess the oceans'…
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Formats
- HDF
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Timestep
- Climatology, Daily, Monthly, Seasonal, Annual
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Domain
- Global
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Collections
- Carbon cycle
Experts contributing reviews
- N/A