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Global Climatology and Atlantic Ocean Atlas

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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The WOCE Global Hydrographic Climatology WGHC (published as BSH Report 35, 2004) provides a consistent and coherent hydrographic gridded full depth data set on 45 depth levels with a 0.5° spatial resolution. High quality hydrographic observations from the WOCE one time and repeat hydrographic cruises with ca. 9000 stations for the period 1990 - 1998 are the modern basis. The reference observed data set, comprising WOCE and high quality cruises occupied after 1970 (a total of 19867 profiles distributed over 384 cruises) is used to quality control a historical data set of older cruises occupied mostly before 1970 and profiles not included in the high quality subset (a total of 1 039 668 profiles distributed over ca. 42 000 cruises). For the WGHC climatology the original profile data have been isopycnically averaged using optimal interpolation. Seven parameters subjected to a strict quality control are given: temperature, potential temperature, salinity, oxygen, silicate, nitrate, phosphate.

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Title Global Climatology and Atlantic Ocean Atlas
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/ae9151c2-e225-4db1-9f14-1a118be96ddb
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
peter.loewe@bsh.de
Reference Period 02/01/1970 - 01/01/1999
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Global Climatology and Atlantic Ocean Atlas". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/global-climatology-and-atlantic-ocean-atlas1