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WOA 2018 - Data Access: Statistical mean of Mixed Layer Depth on 1° grid for all decades

The Mixed Layer Depth climatological fields can be downloaded as an individual file or a compressed file of all climatological fields and related statistics.
The WOA documentation includes information on downloading and reading the data.

Mixed Layer Depth: Statistical mean data links (1° grid)
All fields woa18_M_decav_1.00_csv.tar.gz (0.0 KB)

Annual Seasonal Monthly
M00mn01.csv.gz M13mn01.csv.gz - Winter
M14mn01.csv.gz - Spring
M15mn01.csv.gz - Summer
M16mn01.csv.gz - Autumn
M01mn01.csv.gz - January
M02mn01.csv.gz - February
M03mn01.csv.gz - March
M04mn01.csv.gz - April
M05mn01.csv.gz - May
M06mn01.csv.gz - June
M07mn01.csv.gz - July
M08mn01.csv.gz - August
M09mn01.csv.gz - September
M10mn01.csv.gz - October
M11mn01.csv.gz - November
M12mn01.csv.gz - December

File naming conventions:
woa18_[DECA]_[v][tp][ft][gr].[form_end] - all formats, except NetCDF
woa18_[DECA]_[v][tp]_[gr].[form_end] - NetCDF format
where:
[DECA] - decade
[v] - variable
[tp] - time period
[ft] - field type
[gr] - grid
[form_end] - file name extention
Note: '.dat' - ASCII; '.csv' - comma separated value; '.dbf', '.shp', '.shx' - ArcGIS shape files; '.nc' - netCDF files

    Short description of the statistical fields in WOA
    • Objectively analyzed climatologies are the objectively interpolated mean fields for oceanographic variables at standard depth levels for the World Ocean.
    • The statistical mean is the average of all unflagged interpolated values at each standard depth level for each variable in each 1° square which contains at least one measurement for the given oceanographic variable.
    • The number of observations of each variable in each 1° square of the World Ocean at each standard depth level.
    • The standard deviation about the statistical mean of each variable in each 1° square at each standard depth level.
    • The standard error of the mean of each variable in each 1° square at each standard depth level.
    • The seasonal or monthly climatology minus the annual climatology at each 1° square at each standard depth.
    • The statistical mean minus the climatological mean at each 1° square at each standard depth. This value is used as an estimate of interpolation and smoothing error.
    • The number of 1° squares within the smallest radius of influence around each 1° square which contain a statistical mean.