World Ocean Atlas (WOA09)

World Ocean Atlas (WOA09)

World Ocean Atlas 2009 (WOA09) is a set of objectively analyzed (1 degree grid) climatological fields of in situ temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, Apparent Oxygen Utilization (AOU), percent oxygen saturation, phosphate, silicate, and nitrate at standard depth levels for annual, seasonal, and monthly compositing periods for the World Ocean. It also includes associated statistical fields of observed oceanographic profile data interpolated to standard depth levels on both 1 degree and 5 degree grids. Non-gridded data are also available.

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Suggested Data Citation
Dataset DOIs
None
Hosted Climate Index Files
None
Data Access
  1. World Ocean Atlas 2009
  2. World Ocean Atlas 2009 Data in NetCDF format
Usage Restrictions
None

Key Figures

World Ocean Atlas: Dec-Jan_Feb seasonal mean of dissolved oxygen at the surface. (Climate Data Guide; D. Shea)

World Ocean Atlas: Dec-Jan_Feb seasonal mean of dissolved oxygen at a depth of 50 meters. (Climate Data Guide; D. Shea)

Other Information

Years of record
None
Metadata ID
None
Data time period extended
Yes, data set is extended
Timestep
Climatology, Monthly, Seasonal, Annual
Domain
Global
Formats:
netCDF, ascii
Input Data

insitu

Vertical Levels:
Multiple levels
Missing Data Flag
None
Ocean or Land
Ocean Only
Spatial Resolution

1x1, 5x5

Model Resolution (reanalysis)
None
Data Assimilation Method
None
Model Vintage (reanalysis)
None

Key Publications
Not available...