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OAS accession Detail for 0000720
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accessions_id: 0000720
Title: NODC Standard Product: World Ocean Database 2001 (8 disc set) (NCEI Accession 0000720)
Abstract: World Ocean Database 2001 (WOD01) is comprised of 8 CD-ROMs and contains in situ profile data such as temperature, salinity, nutrients, oxygen, chlorophyll, plankton biomass data and more. It is an update to the World Ocean Database 1998, plus it contains some new parameters.

Some changes since WOD98:
- addition and specification of data from undulating oceanographic recorders, profiling floats, drifting buoys, moored buoys, surface only data, and autonomous pinniped bathythermograph data;
- addition of carbon variables to the database;
- submitter-defined data quality flags received as part of data submissions are now kept in the database;
- modifications to the data format.
Date received: 20020502
Start date: 17720101
End date: 20011231
Seanames: World-Wide Distribution
West boundary: -180
East boundary: 180
North boundary: 85
South boundary: -70
Observation types: physical, profile, surface measurements
Instrument types: bathythermograph - MBT, bathythermograph - XBT, bottle, buoy - drifting buoy, buoy - moored buoy, CTD, profiling float
Datatypes: ANALYSES - ANNUAL SUMMARIES
Submitter: Levitus, Sydney
Submitting institution: US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; National Oceanographic Data Center
Collecting institutions:
Contributing projects: GODAR
Platforms:
Number of observations: 7041956
Supplementary information:
Availability date: 20020502
Metadata version: 6
Keydate: 2002-05-03 14:35:43+00
Editdate: 2023-08-04 12:21:05+00