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

    Metadata Updated: August 12, 2023

    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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    License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Metadata Date 2023-08-04T14:19:49Z
    Metadata Created Date December 4, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date August 12, 2023
    Reference Date(s) July 13, 2023 (publication)
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    Access Constraints Cite as: Levitus, Sydney; US National Oceanographic Data Center (2023). NODC Standard Product: World Ocean Database 2005 (NCEI Accession 0099241). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0099241. Accessed [date]., Use liability: NOAA and NCEI cannot provide any warranty as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of furnished data. Users assume responsibility to determine the usability of these data. The user is responsible for the results of any application of this data for other than its intended purpose.
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    Temporal Extent Begin 1773-01-13
    Temporal Extent End 2005-07-31

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