Abstract
Abstract. The World Ocean Database (WOD) contains over 1.3 million oceanographic casts (where cast refers to an oceanographic profile or set of profiles collected concurrently at more than one depth between the ocean surface and ocean bottom) collected in the Arctic Ocean basin and its surrounding marginal seas. The data, collected from 1849 to the present, come from many submitters and countries, and were collected using a variety of instruments and platforms. These data, along with the derived products World Ocean Atlas (WOA) and the Arctic Regional Climatologies, are exceptionally useful – the data are presented in a standardized, easy to use format and include metadata and quality control information. Collecting data in the Arctic Ocean is challenging, and coverage in space and time ranges from excellent to nearly non-existent. WOD continues to compile a comprehensive collection of Arctic Ocean profile data, ideal for oceanographic, environmental and climatic analyses (https://doi.org/10.7289/V54Q7S16).
Highlights
The Arctic Ocean has a great influence on the earth’s climate (Aagaard and Carmack, 1994) and supports vast and diverse ecosystems
The World Ocean Database (WOD) is the largest publicly available, quality-controlled global ocean profile database, made up of data archived at the US National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), at the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
The online database is updated every three months, and every four years full quality control is performed on the data and the full WOD product is released
Summary
The Arctic Ocean has a great influence on the earth’s climate (Aagaard and Carmack, 1994) and supports vast and diverse ecosystems. The World Ocean Database (WOD) is the largest publicly available, quality-controlled global ocean profile database, made up of data archived at the US National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), at the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). As of this writing, WOD contains over 15.6 million casts sampled all over the world ocean. The online database is updated every three months, and every four years full quality control is performed on the data and the full WOD product is released This analysis will use the latest version of WOD, released in September 2013 (WOD13; Boyer et al, 2016).
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