Abstract

The World Ocean Database (WOD) is the most comprehensive global ocean profile-plankton database available internationally without restriction. All data are in one well-documented format and are available both on DVDs for a minimal charge and on-line without charge. The latest DVD version of the WOD is the World Ocean Database 2009 (WOD09). All data in the WOD are associated with as much metadata as possible, and every ocean data value has a quality control flag associated with it. The WOD is a product of the U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center and its co-located World Data Center for Oceanography. However, the WOD exists because of the international oceanographic data exchange that has occurred under the auspices of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and the International Council of Science (ICSU) World Data Center (WDC) system. World Data Centers are part of the ICSU World Data System.

Highlights

  • The World Ocean Database (WOD) is the largest collection of ocean profile and plankton data available internationally without restriction and with all data made available in a common format

  • The WOD is a product of the U.S National Oceanographic Data Center and its co-located World Data Center for Oceanography

  • The WOD exists because of the international oceanographic data exchange that has occurred under the auspices of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and the International Council of Science (ICSU) World Data Center (WDC) system

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INTRODUCTION

The World Ocean Database (WOD) is the largest collection of ocean profile and plankton data available internationally without restriction and with all data made available in a common format. Regardless of one’s views about the origins of observed changes of the Earth’s climate system (anthropogenic, internal, or natural), the scientific community needs the best scientific databases possible to perform scientific research on this topic; e) Substantial resources have been, and continue to be, allocated for national and international ocean and climate programs such as Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere (TOGA), World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE), Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics (GLOBEC), Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS), Climate and Global Change, Climate Variability and Prediction (CLIVAR), and for the establishment of a Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) Planners of such programs should have access to all historical oceanographic data in order to optimize measurement strategies for these programs. These climatologies are used in a variety of ways including initialization of ocean models and ocean data assimilation studies among others; h) The data in WOD have been incorporated into other atlases including the International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere-Data-Set (Woodruff et al, 2011)

WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THE WOD
NATIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO WOD09
WOD UPDATING SCHEDULE
DATA AVAILABILITY AND ACCESS
WOD DATA DOWNLOADED
FUTURE WORK
10 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
11 REFERENCES
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