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temperature - Statistical mean on 1° grid for all decades

The temperature 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.

Available formats:
Available grids:
Available fields:
Available decadal periods:

File naming conventions:
nwa_[DECA]_[V][TT][FF][GG].[EXT]
where:
[DECA] - decade
[V] - variable
[TT] - time period
[FF] - field type
[GG] - grid (01- 1°, 04 - 1/4° 10 - 1/10°)
[EXT] - file 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.