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World Ocean Atlas and Figures 2001

Citation

(2001). World Ocean 2001 atlas. World Ocean 2001 figures: objective analyses and statistics [CD-ROM]. NOAA: Silver Spring. 6 cd-roms pp. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/743

Availability: Unrestricted
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Description

World Ocean Atlas 2001 (WOA01) is an update of World Ocean Atlas 1998. WOA01 expands on WOA98 with the addition of the monthly nutrients fields and the introduction of annual and seasonal zooplankton biomass fields.

Scope

Keywords:

Marine/Coastal, World Ocean

Geographical coverage

World Ocean

Parameters

% Oxygen (O)
Chlorophyll
Nutrients
Salinity
Temperature in water
Zooplankton biomass

Contributors

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS), more, data creator

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), more, data creator

Related datasets

Previous version:

World Ocean Atlas and Figures 1998, more

Dataset status: Completed

Data type: Data

Data origin: Monitoring: field survey

Metadatarecord created: 2006-01-23

Information last updated: 2013-10-29

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