gov.noaa.nodc:8900210 eng utf8 dataset NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information ncei.info@noaa.gov https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact HTTPS NOAA Contact Information Information for contacts at NCEI. information custodian 2026-02-24T22:59:36Z ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) NODC Standard Product: Worldwide ocean water color / water transparency data (NCEI Accession 8900210) 2002-11-19 publication 2026-02-24 revision 1989 creation NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information gov.noaa.nodc:8900210 NCEI Archive Management System 8900210 NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information ncei.info@noaa.gov https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact HTTPS NCEI Contact Information Information for contacts at NCEI. information publisher US National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/ HTTPS US National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) website Institution web page information resourceProvider US National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/ HTTPS US National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) website Institution web page information contributor US National Oceanographic Data Center https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/ HTTPS US National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) website Institution web page information author tableDigital Data consists of worldwide ocean water color/transparency derived from NODC's ocean station data file from April 1901 to December 1985. The NODC Environmental Information Bulletin 87-1 (EIB 87-1, March 1987) contains a complete explanation of the data and their format. This dataset is available to the public for a wide variety of uses including scientific research and analysis. completed historicalArchive NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information ncei.info@noaa.gov https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact HTTPS NCEI Contact Information Information for contacts at NCEI. information pointOfContact asNeeded NCEI Accession 8900210 was revised and a new version of the archival package was published. Updates to existing archival packages may provide additional files or replace obsolete files. The latest version contains the most complete and up-to-date representation of this archival information package. All of the files received prior to this update are available in the preceding version of this accession. Please see journal.txt in the /about directory for additional details on changes made. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/metadata/landing-page/bin/gfx?id=gov.noaa.nodc:8900210 Preview graphic PNG 8900210 NCEI ACCESSION NUMBER 1989-08-16 publication CHLOROPHYLL A DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER FLUORESCENCE LIGHT TRANSMISSION PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON PARTICULATE ORGANIC NITROGEN (PON) Secchi depth suspended solids WATER COLOR WATER TRANSPARENCY theme NODC DATA TYPES THESAURUS Secchi disk transmissometer visual observation instrument NODC INSTRUMENT TYPES THESAURUS optical visual observation theme NODC OBSERVATION TYPES THESAURUS US National Oceanographic Data Center dataCentre NODC COLLECTING INSTITUTION NAMES THESAURUS US National Oceanographic Data Center dataCentre NODC SUBMITTING INSTITUTION NAMES THESAURUS Adriatic Sea Aegean Sea Alboran Sea Andaman Sea or Burma Sea Arabian Sea Arafura Sea Arctic Ocean Baffin Bay Balearic (Iberian) Sea Bali Sea Baltic Sea Banda Sea Barents Sea Bay of Bengal Bay of Biscay (Golfe de Gascogne) Beaufort Sea Bering Sea Bismarck Sea Black Sea Caribbean Sea Celebes Sea (Sulawesi Sea and Mindanao Sea) Ceram Sea or Seram Sea Chukchi Sea Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia Coral Sea Davis Strait East China Sea (Tung Hai) East Siberian Sea English Channel (La Manche) Flores Sea Great Australian Bight Greenland Sea (including Iceland Sea and North Greenland Sea) Gulf of Aden Gulf of Alaska Gulf of America Gulf of Bothnia (Bay of Bothnia and Bothnian Sea) Gulf of Finland Gulf of Guinea Gulf of Oman Gulf of Riga, Sound Sea Gulf of St. Lawrence Gulf of Thailand Halmahera Sea Hudson Bay Hudson Strait Indian Ocean Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland Ionian Sea Japan Sea Jawa (Java) Sea Kara Sea Kattegat, The Sound, Storebælt, Lillebælt Labrador Sea Laccadive Sea Malacca Straits Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin Molucca Sea Mozambique Channel New York Bight North Atlantic Ocean North Pacific Ocean North Sea Northwestern Passages Norwegian Sea Persian Gulf (Gulf of Iran), Strait of Hormuz Philippine Sea Red Sea Ross Sea Sawu Sea Sea of Azov Sea of Okhotsk Selat Makasar (Makasar Strait) Seto Naikai (Inland Sea) Skagerrak Solomon Sea South Atlantic Ocean South China Sea (Nan Hai) South Pacific Ocean Southern Ocean Strait of Gibraltar Tasman Sea Timor Sea Tyrrhenian Sea White Sea Yellow Sea (Hwang Hai) place NODC SEA AREA NAMES THESAURUS oceanography theme WMO_CategoryCode 2012-09-15 publication DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce dataCentre Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Data Center Keywords 2026 revision 24 Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Greenbelt MD https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords HTTPS GCMD Keyword Forum Page Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. 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NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information custodian Secchi disk Secchi disk The Secchi disk (or Secchi disc), as created in 1865 by Angelo Secchi, is a plain white, circular disk 30 cm (12 in) in diameter used to measure water transparency or turbidity in bodies of water. The disc is mounted on a pole or line, and lowered slowly down in the water. The depth at which the disk is no longer visible is taken as a measure of the transparency of the water. This measure is known as the Secchi depth and is related to water turbidity. [Wikipedia, 2021-09-02] transmissometer transmissometer transmissometer Instrument used to measure transmissivity in NODC File Alias F022. visual observation visual observation not an instrument - maybe an observation type