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Title: NODC Standard Product: World Ocean Database 1998 version 2 (5 disc set) (NODC Accession 0098461)
Abstract: Since the first release of WOD98, the staff of the Ocean Climate Laboratory have performed additional quality control on the database. Version 2.0 also includes Ocean Data View (ODV) software developed by R. Schlitzer. (ODV software will uncompress selected data files and offers users several options for viewing the WOD98 data.)

The Ocean Climate Laboratory (OCL) of NOAA's National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) has completed the first major phase of a project to update previous releases of global oceanographic 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 v.2 is an International Year of the Ocean product. The World Ocean Database 1998 Version 2(WOD98 v.2) is comprised of five CD-ROMs containing profile and plankton/biomass data in compressed format.

WOD98-01 v.2 through WOD98-04 v.2 contain observed level data; WOD98-05 v.2 contains all the standard level data.

WOD98-01 v.2 Observed Level Data; North Atlantic 30° N-90° N;
WOD98-02 v.2 Observed Level Data; North Atlantic 0°-30° N, South Atlantic;
WOD98-03 v2. Observed Level Data; North Pacific 20° N-90° N;
WOD98-01 v.2 Observed Level Data; North Pacific 0°-20° N; South Pacific, Indian;
WOD98-01 v.2 Standard Level Data for all Ocean Basins.

Copies of the World Ocean Atlas 1998 (WOA98) version 2 CD-ROMs are no longer available from the NODC online store, but each disc may be downloaded from this NODC accession.

Software that was developed or provided with this NODC Standard Product may be included in the disc_image/ directory as part of the disc image, but software that was developed or provided with this NODC Standard Product have been excluded from the disc_contents/ directory.
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: bathythermograph - AXBT, bathythermograph - BT, bathythermograph - EBT, bathythermograph - MBT, bathythermograph - uBT, bathythermograph - XBT, bottle, bucket, buoy, buoy - moored buoy, CTD, CTD - moored CTD, C-T recorder, fluorometer, laboratory analysis, meteorological sensor, mooring, net, net - plankton net, oxygen sensor, pH sensor, salinometer, Secchi disk, temperature probe, thermograph, thermometer, thermosalinograph, visual analysis, visual observation
Datatypes: ABSOLUTE HUMIDITY, AIR TEMPERATURE, AIR TEMPERATURE - DRY BULB, AIR TEMPERATURE - WET BULB, BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, BIOMASS - PLANKTON, CHLOROPHYLL, cloud amount/frequency, cloud height, cloud type, CONDUCTIVITY, DEPTH - BOTTOM, DEPTH - OBSERVATION, HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE, NITRATE, NITRITE, OPTICAL, OPTICAL PROPERTIES, OXYGEN, pH, phosphate, SALINITY, SEA STATE, SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE, SIGMA-T, SIGMA-THETA, silicate, TAXONOMIC CODE, total alkalinity, WATER COLOR, WATER DENSITY, water depth, 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
Platforms:
Number of observations:
Supplementary information: The contents of these discs are available as 1) a compressed .tar file via the download data button (download size limit may prevent obtaining all data in one transaction); 2) a complete ISO 9660 disc image, from which an identical replica of the original disc may be burned on new CD/DVD media, by navigating to the .iso file in the data/0-data/disc_image/ subdirectory; 3) individual files, by navigating to specific file(s) in the data/0-data/disc_contents/ 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: 7
Keydate: 2012-10-09 12:44:24+00
Editdate: 2013-10-16 17:05:19+00