The World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) Global Hydrographic Climatology

The WOCE Global Hydrographic Climatology has been derived using World Ocean Data 1998 (WOD98), described in dataset ds285.0, and profiles from the WOCE Hydrographic Programme, with the exception of a few cruises, collected between 1990 and 1998. Several other small data collections from Germany, Russia, and France were also included. Data quality checks, cruise bias corrections, averaging on isopycnal surfaces, and finally optimal interpolation on 45 standard levels was used to determine the climatologies and error estimates of salinity, temperature, oxygen, and a suite of nutrients. Many more details and figures are available in

Gouretski et al. 2004, WOCE Global Hydrographic Climatology.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1874-10-11
    End:  1993-06-03

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Temporal Range Begin 1874-10-11
Temporal Range End 1993-06-03
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Asset Size 1004.592 MB
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Author Deutsches Ozeanographisches Datenzentrum, Bundesamt Fur Seeschifffahrt Und Hydrographie, Germany
Publisher NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Publication Date 2006-01-23
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/GS51-V170
Alternate Identifier d285004
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Topic Category oceans
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-09T01:22:48Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.gdex::d285004
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Deutsches Ozeanographisches Datenzentrum, Bundesamt Fur Seeschifffahrt Und Hydrographie, Germany. (2006). The World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) Global Hydrographic Climatology. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. https://doi.org/10.5065/GS51-V170. Accessed 09 October 2025.

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