World Ocean Database

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Description

The World Ocean Database (WOD) is a National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) product and an IODE (International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange) project. WOD is world’s largest collection of uniformly formatted, quality controlled, publicly available ocean profile data. It is a powerful tool for oceanographic, climatic, and environmental research, and the end result of more than 20 years of coordinated efforts to incorporate data from institutions, agencies, individual researchers, and data recovery initiatives into a single database. WOD data spans from Captain Cook’s 1772 voyage to the contemporary Argo period, making it a valuable resource for long term and historical ocean climate analysis. Original versions of the 20,000+ datasets in the WOD are available through the NCEI archives.

Details

Type
Infrastructures
Belem statement areas
Climate Variability
Ocean Resources
Ocean Technology
Acronym
WOD
Time frame
1994 - Ongoing

Contacts

Affiliation
National Centers for Environmental Information, National Oceanc and Atmospheric Administration