Independent Variables (Grids)

depth (depth)	grid: /depth (m) ordered [ (0.0) (10.0) (20.0) (30.0) (50.0) (75.0) (100.0) (125.0) (150.0) (200.0) (250.0) (300.0) (400.0) (500.0) (600.0) (700.0) (800.0) (900.0) (1000.0) (1100.0) (1200.0) (1300.0) (1400.0) (1500.0) (1750.0) (2000.0) (2500.0) (3000.0) (3500.0) (4000.0) (4500.0) (5000.0) (5500.0)] :grid
latitude (latitude)	grid: /lat (degree_north) ordered (87.5S) to (87.5N) by 5.0 N= 36 pts :grid
longitude (longitude)	grid: /lon (degree_east) periodic (2.5E) to (2.5W) by 5.0 N= 72 pts :grid
time	grid: /time (months since 01-Jan) periodic (Jan-Mar) to (Oct-Dec) by 3.0 N= 4 pts :grid

Other Info

acknowledgment

This work was made possible by a grant from the NOAA Climate and Global Change Program which enabled the establishment of a research group at the National Oceanographic Data Center. The purpose of this group is to prepare research quality oceanographic databases, as well as to compute objective analyses of, and diagnostic studies based on, these databases. Support is now from base funds and from the NOAA Climate Program Office. The data on which this atlas is based are in World Ocean Database 2009 and are distributed online and on DVD by NODC/WDC. Many data were acquired as a result of the IOC/IODE Global Oceanographic Data Archaeology and Rescue (GODAR) project, and the IOC/IODE World Ocean Database project (WOD). At NODC/WDC, data archaeology and rescue projects were supported with funding from the NOAA Environmental Science Data and Information Management (ESDIM) Program and the NOAA Climate and Global Change Program which included support from NASA and DOE. Support for some of the regional IOC/GODAR meetings was provided by the Marine Science and Technology (MAST) program of the European Union. The European Community has also provided support for the Mediterranean Data Archeology and Rescue (MEDAR/MEDATLAS) project which has resulted in the inclusion of substantial amounts of ocean profile data from the Mediterranean Sea. Additional Black Sea data have been acquired as a result of a NATO sponsored project. We acknowledge the scientists, technicians, and programmers who have collected and processed data, those individuals who have submitted data to national and regional data centers as well as the managers and staff at the various data centers. We thank our colleagues at the NODC. Their efforts have made this and similar works possible.

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Grid

contributor_name

Ocean Climate Laboratory

Conventions

CF-1.4

creator_email

NODC.Services@noaa.gov

creator_name

NODC

creator_url

http://www.nodc.noaa.gov

CVS_ID

1.0

date_created

2010-9-30T17:29:19Z

date_issued

2010-9-30T17:29:19Z

date_modified

2010-9-30T17:29:19Z

geospatial_lat_max

90.0

geospatial_lat_min

-90.0

geospatial_lat_resolution

5.0

geospatial_lat_units

degrees_east

geospatial_lon_max

360.0

geospatial_lon_min

0.0

geospatial_lon_resolution

5.0

geospatial_lon_units

degrees_north

id

79781af3-90b4-491d-b3e9-425c77e338c4

institution

National Oceanographic Data Center(NODC), NOAA

keywords

OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY

keywords_vocabulary

Global Change Master Directory

license

This data is free for anyone to use, reuse and redistribute without any restriction. NOAA and NODC make no warranty, expressed or implied, nor does the fact of distribution constitute such a warranty. NOAA and NODC cannot assume liability for any damages caused by any errors or omissions in the data.

Metadata_Convention

Unidata Dataset Discovery v1.0

naming_authority

gov.noaa.nodc

processing_level

synthesized product

project

World Ocean Atlas - 2009

publisher_email

NODC.Services@noaa.gov

publisher_name

National Oceanographic Data Center(NODC)

publisher_url

http://www.nodc.noaa.gov

source

Please see the acknowledgement and References

standard_name_vocabulary

CF

summary

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. For more details, please see http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/WOA09/pr_woa09.html

time_coverage_duration

P1Y

time_coverage_end

2008-12-25

time_coverage_resolution

P3M

time_coverage_start

1890-06-27

title

World Ocean Atlas 09: Sea Water Salinity - seasonal

References

Antonov, J. I., D. Seidov, T. P. Boyer, R. A. Locarnini, A. V. Mishonov, and H. E. Garcia, 2010. World Ocean Atlas 2009, Volume 2: Salinity. S. Levitus, Ed. NOAA Atlas NESDIS 69, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 184 pp. URL:ftp://ftp.nodc.noaa.gov/pub/WOA09/DOC/woa09_vol2_text.pdf

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