NCEI Standard Product: World Ocean Database (WOD)

Description

The World Ocean Database (WOD) is the world's largest publicly available uniform format quality controlled ocean profile dataset. Ocean profile data are sets of measurements of an ocean variable vs. depth at a single geographic location within a short (minutes to hours) temporal period in some portion of the water column from the surface to the bottom. To be considered a profile for the WOD, there must be more than a single depth/variable pair. Multiple profiles at the same location from the same set of instruments is an oceanographic cast. Ocean variables in the WOD include temperature, salinity, oxygen, nutrients, tracers, and biological variables such as plankton and chlorophyll. Quality control procedures are documented and performed on each cast and the results are included as flags on each measurement. The WOD contains the data on the originally measured depth levels (observed) and also interpolated to standard depth levels to present a more uniform set of iso-surfaces for oceanographic and climate work. The source of the WOD is more than 20,000 separate archived datasets contributed by institutions, project, government agencies, and individual investigators from the United States and around the world. Each dataset is available in its original form in the National Centers for Environmental Information data archives. All datasets are converted to the same standard format, checked for duplication within the WOD, and assigned quality flags based on objective tests. Additional subjective flags are set upon calculation of ocean climatological mean fields which make up the World Ocean Atlas (WOA) series. The WOD consists of periodic major releases and quarterly updates to those releases. Each major release is associated with a concurrent release of a WOA release, and contains final quality control flags used in the WOA, which includes manual as well as automated steps. Each quarterly update release includes additional historical and recent data and preliminary quality control. The latest major release was WOD 2018 (WOD18), which includes nearly 16 million oceanographic casts, from the second voyage of Captain Cook (1772) to the modern Argo floats (end of 2017). The WOD presents data in netCDF ragged array format following the Climate and Forecast (CF) conventions for ease of use mindful of space limitations.

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0 Navigate directly to the URL for data access and direct download. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/oceans/ncei/wod/
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0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/NCEI-WOD
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0 Report documenting the Scientific Data Stewardship Maturity of this dataset. https://doi.org/10.25923/901y-ja87
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0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2023. GCMD Keywords, Version 17. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
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21 Institution web page http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/index.html
0 Institution web page https://www.legos.omp.eu/
21 Institution web page http://www.biol.sci.kobe-u.ac.jp/bio/home.html
0 Institution web page http://www.sea.edu
0 Institution web page http://www.marsci.uga.edu
0 Institution web page https://www.locean-ipsl.upmc.fr/
0 Institution web page http://www.ifremer.fr/crema
27 Institution web page http://www.kbayrr.org
0 Institution web page https://www.usm.edu/marine
0 Institution web page http://www.egs.uct.ac.za/
0 Institution web page http://www.ceoe.udel.edu/schools-departments/school-of-marine-science-and-policy
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0 These data are available through the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). FTP is no longer supported by most internet browsers. You may copy and paste the FTP link to the data into an FTP client (e.g., FileZilla or WinSCP). ftp://ftp-oceans.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data.nodc/ncei/wod/
21 Search for data by user-specified criteria and optionally download data. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/world-ocean-database-select/dbsearch.html
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0 Institution web page https://www.sams.ac.uk/
0 Institution web page http://www.iphc.int/
0 Institution web page http://www.keysmarinelab.org/
21 These data are available through a variety of services via a THREDDS (Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services) Data Server (TDS). Depending on the dataset, the TDS can provide WMS, WCS, DAP, HTTP, and other data access and metadata services as well. For more information on the TDS, see http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/thredds/current/tds/. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/thredds-ocean/catalog/ncei/wod/catalog.html
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55 Institution web page http://www.shoa.cl
0 Institution web page https://www.argentina.gob.ar/inidep
21 Institution web page http://www.ntu.edu/english/main.html
27 Institution web page http://www.mbari.org
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