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NODC Standard Product: World Ocean Database 1998 version 2 (5 disc set) (NCEI Accession 0098461)

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Since the first release of WOD98, the staff of the Ocean Climate Laboratory of NOAA's National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) have performed additional quality control on the database. Version 2.0 also includes Ocean Data View (ODV) software developed by R. Schlitzer. (ODV software will uncompress selected data files and offers users several options for viewing the WOD98 data.) The Ocean Climate Laboratory (OCL) has completed the first major phase of a project to update previous releases of global oceanographic data. World Ocean Database 1998 (WOD98) expands on World Ocean Atlas 1994 (WOA94) by including the additional variables nitrite, pH, alkalinity, chlorophyll, and plankton, as well as all available metadata and meteorology. WOD98 v.2 is an International Year of the Ocean product. The World Ocean Database 1998 Version 2 (WOD98 v.2) is comprised of five CD-ROMs containing profile and plankton/biomass data in compressed format. WOD98-01 v.2 through WOD98-04 v.2 contain observed level data; WOD98-05 v.2 contains all the standard level data. WOD98-01 v.2 Observed Level Data; North Atlantic 30° N-90° N; WOD98-02 v.2 Observed Level Data; North Atlantic 0°-30° N, South Atlantic; WOD98-03 v2. Observed Level Data; North Pacific 20° N-90° N; WOD98-01 v.2 Observed Level Data; North Pacific 0°-20° N; South Pacific, Indian; WOD98-01 v.2 Standard Level Data for all Ocean Basins.

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0098461 ABSOLUTE HUMIDITY AIR TEMPERATURE AIR TEMPERATURE - DRY BULB AIR TEMPERATURE - WET BULB BAROMETRIC PRESSURE BIOMASS - PLANKTON CHLOROPHYLL

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  "AIR TEMPERATURE",
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  "AIR TEMPERATURE - WET BULB",
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  "cloud height",
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  "WATER DENSITY",
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  "WATER TRANSPARENCY",
  "WAVE DATA",
  "WAVE DIRECTION",
  "WAVE HEIGHT",
  "WAVE PERIOD",
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  "WEATHER",
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  "US National Oceanographic Data Center",
  "GLOBAL OCEAN DATA ARCHAEOLOGY AND RESCUE PROJECT (GODAR)",
  "World-Wide Distribution",
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  "DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce",
  "GODAR > Global Oceanographic Data Archaeology and Rescue Project",
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  "EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE",
  "EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY > ABSOLUTE HUMIDITY",
  "EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND DIRECTION",
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temporal 1874-10-11T00:00:00+00:00/1993-06-03T00:00:00+00:00
title NODC Standard Product: World Ocean Database 1998 version 2 (5 disc set) (NCEI Accession 0098461)

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