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OAS accession Detail for 0270533, meta_version: 11. Current meta_version is: 14
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| Title: | World Ocean Atlas 2023 (NCEI Accession 0270533) |
| Abstract: | World Ocean Atlas 2023 (WOA23) is a set of objectively analyzed (one degree grid and quarter degree grid) climatological fields of in situ temperature and salinity, at standard depth levels for annual, seasonal, and monthly compositing periods for the World Ocean. WOA23 also includes associated statistical fields of observed oceanographic profile data interpolated to standard depth levels on quarter degree, one degree, and five degree grids. Temperature and salinity fields are available for seven decades (1955-1964, 1965-1974, 1975-1984, 1985-1994, 1995-2004, 2005-2014, and 2015-2022), three thirty-year "climate normals" (1971-2000, 1981-2010, and 1991-2020), and an average of all seven individual decades representing the period 1955-2022. Oxygen, as well as calculated Apparent Oxygen Utilization (AOU) and percent oxygen saturation climatologies, are available in all-data climatologies using quality-controlled data from 1965-2022. Oxygen climatologies, along with related calculated parameters, are also available for the 1971-2000 climate normal. Inorganic nutrients (phosphate, silicate, nitrate) climatologies are available using quality data from 1965-2022. This accession is a product generated by the National Centers for Environmental Information's (NCEI) Ocean Climate Laboratory Team. The analyses are derived from the NCEI World Ocean Database 2023. Full version of WOA23 published February, 2024. |
| Date received: | 20240212 |
| Start date: | 19550101 |
| End date: | 20221231 |
| Seanames: | World-Wide Distribution |
| West boundary: | -180 |
| East boundary: | 180 |
| North boundary: | 90 |
| South boundary: | -90 |
| Observation types: | atlas |
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| Datatypes: | ANALYSES - ANNUAL SUMMARIES, ANALYSES - MONTHLY SUMMARIES, ANALYSES - SEASONAL SUMMARIES, DISSOLVED OXYGEN, NITRATE, OXYGEN - APPARENT UTILIZATION (AOU), OXYGEN - PERCENT SATURATION, phosphate, SALINITY, silicate, WATER TEMPERATURE |
| Submitter: | Reagan, James R. |
| Submitting institution: | US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; National Centers for Environmental Information |
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| Supplementary information: | This full release of WOA23 published in February 2024, replaces a preliminary version made available in October 2022 (NCEI accession 0270533 v1.1). The changes between this version and the previous version include: 1. Full release of temperature and salinity climatologies spanning seven individual decades (1955-1964...2015-2022), three climate normals (1971-2000, 1981-2010, 1991-2020), and a seven-decade average for the 1955-2022 time period. 2. The 1991-2020 climate normal for temperature and salinity that was released in the previous version has been updated in this most recent version. 3. Full release of oxygen, and related calculated parameters Apparent Oxygen Utilization (AOU) and percent oxygen saturation, climatogies. An all-data climatology that spans years 1965-2022 and a 1971-2000 climate normal climatology were included in this release. 4. Full release of inorganic nutrient climatologies which includes phosphate, silicate, and nitrate. These climatologies span the years 1965-2022. |
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| Metadata version: | 11 |
| Keydate: | 2022-11-14 16:37:23+00 |
| Editdate: | 2024-02-13 17:09:53+00 |