World Ocean Atlas (WOA09)
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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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Dataset DOIs
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Hosted Climate Index Files
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Usage Restrictions
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Other Information
Earth system components and main variables
Type of data product
Dataset collections
Years of record
None
Metadata ID
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Data time period extended
Yes, data set is extended
Timestep
Climatology, Monthly, Seasonal, Annual
Domain
Input Data
insitu
Vertical 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
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