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Title: NODC Standard Product: World Ocean Database 1998 version 1 (5 disc set) (NODC Accession 0095340)
Abstract: The World Ocean Database 1998 (WOD98) is comprised of five CD-ROMs containing profile and plankton/biomass data in compressed format. WOD98-01 through WOD98-04 contain observed level data, WOD98-05 contains all the standard level data.
World Ocean Database 1998 (WOD98) expands on World Ocean Atlas 1994 (WOA94) by including the additional variables nitrite, pH, alkalinity, chlorophyll, and plankton, as well as all available metadata and meteorology. WOD98 is an International Year of the Ocean product.

WOD98-01 Observed Level Data; North Atlantic 30° N-90° N;
WOD98-02 Observed Level Data; North Atlantic 0°-30° N, South Atlantic;
WOD98-03 Observed Level Data; North Pacific 20° N-90° N;
WOD98-01 Observed Level Data; North Pacific 0°-20° N; South Pacific, Indian;
WOD98-01 Standard Level Data for all Ocean Basins.

Copies of the World Ocean Atlas 1998 (WOA98) version 1 CD-ROMs are currently unavailable.
Date received: 20000131
Start date: 18741011
End date: 19930603
Seanames: World-Wide Distribution
West boundary: -180
East boundary: 180
North boundary: 90
South boundary: -90
Observation types: biological, chemical, derived products, discrete sample, laboratory analyses, meteorological, moored buoy, optical, physical, plankton, profile, time series, tows, tows - plankton tows, visual observation, water chemistry
Instrument types: anemometer, barometer, bathythermograph - AXBT, bathythermograph - BT, bathythermograph - EBT, bathythermograph - MBT, bathythermograph - uBT, bathythermograph - XBT, bottle, bucket, buoy, CTD, C-T recorder, fluorometer, humidity sensor, laboratory analysis, meteorological sensor, net, net - plankton net, oxygen sensor, pH sensor, salinometer, Secchi disk, thermograph, thermometer, thermosalinograph, visual estimate, visual observation
Datatypes: ABSOLUTE HUMIDITY, AIR PRESSURE, AIR TEMPERATURE, AIR TEMPERATURE - DRY BULB, AIR TEMPERATURE - WET BULB, BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, BIOMASS - PLANKTON, CHLOROPHYLL, cloud amount/frequency, cloud type, CONDUCTIVITY, DEPTH - BOTTOM, DEPTH - OBSERVATION, NITRATE, NITRITE, OXYGEN, pH, phosphate, PRESSURE - WATER, SALINITY, SEA STATE, SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE, SIGMA-T, SIGMA-THETA, silicate, TAXONOMIC CODE, TEMPERATURE - SURFACE WATER, total alkalinity, WATER COLOR, WATER DENSITY, WATER TEMPERATURE, WATER TRANSPARENCY, WAVE DATA, WAVE DIRECTION, WAVE HEIGHT, WAVELENGTH, WAVE PERIOD, WEATHER, WIND DIRECTION, WIND FORCE, WIND SPEED
Submitter: Levitus, Sydney
Submitting institution: US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; National Oceanographic Data Center
Collecting institutions:
Contributing projects: GODAR
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Number of observations:
Supplementary information: The contents of these discs are available as complete ISO 9660 disc images, from which an identical replica of the original discs may be burned on new CD/DVD media, by navigating to the .iso files in the data/0-data/disc_images/ subdirectory.

Please contact NODC.Services@noaa.gov for additional assistance.

Additional resources are also available online from NODC. See http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/indprod.html and http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-cdrom.html#wod98 for details.
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Metadata version: 12
Keydate: 2012-09-18 13:52:47+00
Editdate: 2012-10-01 13:14:08+00