World Ocean Atlas 2013 (WOA13)

World Ocean Atlas 2013 version 2 (WOA13 V2) is a set of objectively analyzed (1° 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 5°, 1°, and 0.25° grids. Some variables only have 37 or 57 depth levels at seasonal and monthly temporal resolution. Climatologies for different time periods are available.

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Available formats:

.nc

.csv

ArcGIS

ascii

Published:

Published

Availability:

Public

Gridded:

Yes

Time range:

climatology using years 1955–2012

Spatial depth:

depth resolved (102 levels between 0 m and 5500 m)

Spatial resolution:

1° by 1° some at 0.25° by 0.25° and 5° by 5°

Temporal climatology:

Yes

Data types:

Observations (objectively analyzed)

Data temporal period:

Present

Data temporal resolution:

Annual

Seasonal

Monthly

Spatial coverage:

Global

Variables:

apparent oxygen utilization

dissolved oxygen

nitrate

phosphate

salinity

silicate

temperature

References:

Locarnini, R. A., A. V. Mishonov, J. I. Antonov, T. P. Boyer, H. E. Garcia, O. K. Baranova, M. M. Zweng, C. R. Paver, J. R. Reagan, D. R. Johnson, M. Hamilton, and D. Seidov, 2013. World Ocean Atlas 2013, Volume 1: Temperature. S. Levitus, Ed., A. Mishonov Technical Ed.; NOAA Atlas NESDIS 73, 40 pp

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World Ocean Atlas 2013 (WOA13)

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