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NODC Standard Product: World Ocean Database 2005 (NCEI Accession 0099241)

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Catalog Last Checked: June 28, 2026 at 07:09 PM | Dataset Last Updated: July 13, 2023 at 12:00 AM
The World Ocean Database 2005 (WOD05) DVD contains data, documentation, programs, and utilities for the latest release of this product. Data include 7.9 million temperature profiles, and 2.7 million salinity profiles, plus data for 27 other in situ measurements, including oxygen, nutrients and chemical tracers, chlorophyll, carbon variables, and plankton. Data on the DVD are organized by instrument type. Within each instrument directory, the data are stored by year. Data are stored in ASCII format, and gzip compressed. Utilities are provided under the directory UTILS for both UNIX and DOS operating systems. This DVD contains six directories named: CODES (contains codes associated with the secondary header, biological header, and taxa data) DATA (contains yearly sorted data, dating from 1773 though 2005) DOC (contains the documentation) ODV (contains the Ocean Data View software for viewing the WOD05 data, developed by Dr. Reiner Schlitzer, AWI. This software will decompress selected files and offers users several options for viewing the WOD05 data. ODV works on PCs only). PROGRAMS (contains source code and executables for programs which are examples of how to read the data and can be used to reformat the data into comma-delimited or space-delimited forms). UTILS (contains the gzip utility for uncompressing WOD05 data files.)

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0099241 ABSORPTION - SCATTERING - ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS AIR TEMPERATURE AIR TEMPERATURE - DRY BULB AIR TEMPERATURE - WET BULB AMMONIA (NH3) Attenuation/Transmission BAROMETRIC PRESSURE

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  "AIR TEMPERATURE",
  "AIR TEMPERATURE - DRY BULB",
  "AIR TEMPERATURE - WET BULB",
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  "BAROMETRIC PRESSURE",
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  "CHLOROFLUOROCARBON (CFC)",
  "CHLOROFLUOROCARBON-11 (CFC-11)",
  "CHLOROFLUOROCARBON-113 (CFC-113)",
  "CHLOROFLUOROCARBON-12 (CFC-12)",
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  "CONDUCTIVITY",
  "DELTA CARBON-13",
  "DELTA CARBON-14",
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  "DEPTH - OBSERVATION",
  "DEPTH - SENSOR",
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  "JULIAN YEAR - DAY",
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  "LONGITUDE",
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  "OPTICAL",
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  "pH",
  "PHAEOPHYTIN",
  "phosphate",
  "PLANKTON",
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  "SEA STATE",
  "Secchi depth",
  "silicate",
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  "Tritium (Hydrogen isotope)",
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  "WATER TEMPERATURE",
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  "WEATHER",
  "WIND DIRECTION",
  "WIND SPEED",
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  "xCO2 seawater",
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  "World-Wide Distribution",
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modified 2023-07-13T00:00:00.000+00:00
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spatial 180.0,-90.0,-180.0,90.0
temporal 1773-01-13T00:00:00+00:00/2005-07-31T00:00:00+00:00
title NODC Standard Product: World Ocean Database 2005 (NCEI Accession 0099241)

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