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AN: SF21A-0004    [Abstracts]
TI: World Ocean Database online: Access and use of quality controlled oceanographic profile data for oceanographic and climate change studies
AU: * Boyer, T
EM: boyer@nodc.noaa.gov
AF: National Oceanographic Data Center/Ocean Climate Laboratory, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910 United States
AU: Levitus, S
EM: slevitus@nodc.noaa.gov
AF: National Oceanographic Data Center/Ocean Climate Laboratory, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910 United States
AU: Baranova, O
EM: olga.baranova@noaa.gov
AF: National Oceanographic Data Center/Ocean Climate Laboratory, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910 United States
AU: Locarnini, R
EM: ricardo.locarnini@noaa.gov
AF: National Oceanographic Data Center/Ocean Climate Laboratory, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910 United States
AU: Garcia, H
EM: hernan.garcia@noaa.gov
AF: National Oceanographic Data Center/Ocean Climate Laboratory, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910 United States
AU: Johnson, D
EM: johnson@nodc.noaa.gov
AF: National Oceanographic Data Center/Ocean Climate Laboratory, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910 United States
AU: Antonov, J
EM: antonov@nodc.noaa.gov
AF: National Oceanographic Data Center/Ocean Climate Laboratory, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910 United States
AU: Gelfeld, B
EM: gelfeld@nodc.noaa.gov
AF: National Oceanographic Data Center/Ocean Climate Laboratory, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910 United States
AU: Tatusko, R
EM: rtatusko@nodc.noaa.gov
AF: National Oceanographic Data Center/Ocean Climate Laboratory, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910 United States
AB: The World Ocean Database 2001 (WOD01) was released in 2001 on CD and online as part of the IOC "Global Ocean Data Archeology and Rescue" (GODAR) and "World Ocean Database projects". The goal of these projects is to make available the largest possible database of quality controlled historical and modern oceanographic profile data to be used in scientific studies. The database contains nearly 7 million temperature profiles, more than 2 million salinity profiles, as well as observations of oxygen content, nutrient levels, and plankton counts. To help users of the data who want to work with only a subset of the data, the online WODselect system was developed to select, view, and download user specified subsets of the WOD01. All data undergo rigorous quality control procedures. The results of the quality control do not result in elimination of data from the database. Rather, flags are attached to each measurement leaving the decision to the user on whether to follow the underlying quality control decisions. The most important quality control is the use of the data in-house for scientific research. This research reveals quality control problems which have eluded all previous steps in the quality control procedure. The online version of the WOD01 is updated monthly based on ongoing quality control through scientific research.
UR: http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/SELECT/dbsearch/dbsearch.html
DE: 4200 OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL
DE: 4215 Climate and interannual variability (3309)
DE: 4532 General circulation
DE: 1620 Climate dynamics (3309)
DE: 1635 Oceans (4203)
SC: Special Focus: Advances in Data Acquisition, Management, Analysis and Display [SF]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting