The World Ocean Database

By S. Levitus, J. Antonov, O. Baranova, T. Boyer, C. L. Coleman, H. Garcia, A. Grodsky, D. Johnson, R. Locarnini, A. Mishonov and 6 more. Data Science Journal, 2013

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The World Ocean Database (WOD) is the most comprehensive global ocean profile-plankton database available internationally without restriction. All data are in one well-documented format and are available both on DVDs for a minimal charge and on-line without charge. The latest DVD version of the WOD is the World Ocean Database 2009 (WOD09). All data in the WOD are associated with as much metadata as possible, and every ocean data value has a quality control flag associated with it. The WOD is a product of the U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center and its co-located World Data Center for Oceanography. However, the WOD exists because of the international oceanographic data exchange that has occurred under the auspices of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and the International Council of Science (ICSU) World Data Center (WDC) system. World Data Centers are part of the ICSU World Data System.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Oceanography

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State of the climate in 2010 (2011, unknown): “3.6a) is discussed, computed from a combination of in situ ocean temperature data (Johnson et al. 2009; World Ocean Database 2009, http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/indprod.html; and Argo, Roemmich et al. 2009) and satellite altimetry data following Willis et al. (2004), but displayed relative to a…”
Measuring Global Ocean Heat Content to Estimate the Earth Energy Imbalance (2019, background): “Together, MBT and XBT data contribute 36% of the total ocean temperature profile data available to 2013; there are ∼2.4 million MBT (1931–2004) and 2.5 million XBT profiles (1960- present) (Boyer et al., 2013).”