World Ocean Database 2009

Todd O'Brien1, Abby Benson2

1 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, ; 2 U.S. Geological Survey, 

Corresponding author(s): Todd O'Brien (Todd.OBrien@noaa.gov), Abby Benson (albenson@usgs.gov)

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Resource Citation

Baranova, O.K, T.D. O'Brien, T.P. Boyer and I.V. Smolyar (2009). Plankton data. Chapter 16 in Boyer, T. P., J. I. Antonov , O. K. Baranova, H. E. Garcia, D. R. Johnson, R. A. Locarnini, A. V. Mishonov, T. D. O'Brien, D. Seidov, I. V. Smolyar, M. M. Zweng, 2009. World Ocean Database 2009. S. Levitus, Ed., NOAA Atlas NESDIS 66, U.S. Gov. Printing Office, Wash., D.C., 216 pp., DVDs

Abstract

World Ocean Database 2009 (WOD09) is a collection of scientifically quality-controlled ocean profile and plankton data that includes measurements of temperature, salinity, oxygen, phosphate, nitrate, silicate, chlorophyll, alkalinity, pH, pCO2, TCO2, Tritium, delta-13Carbon, delta-14Carbon, delta-18Oxygen, Freons, Helium, delta-3Helium, Neon, and plankton. A discussion of data sources is provided. Data are both historical and modern with the most recent data from 2008.World Ocean Database 2009 is an update of World Ocean Database 2005. It expands on the older version by including new variables, data types, and additional historical, as well as modern, observations. It contains all data from earliest observation through our collection as of Dec. 31, 2009. The 2009 database, updated from the 2005 edition, is significantly larger providing approximately 9.1 million temperature profiles and 3.5 million salinity reports. The 2009 database also captures 29 categories of scientific information from the oceans, including oxygen levels and chemical tracers, plus information on gases and isotopes that can be used to trace the movement of ocean currents. An online version of the World Ocean Database is updated quarterly. This subset of the World Ocean Database contains the biological observations only.

Keywords: Occurrence

General description

Additional information: marine, harvested by OBIS

Data published through GBIF: https://www1.usgs.gov/obis-usa/ipt/resource?r=wod_2009

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive World Ocean Database 2009
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://www1.usgs.gov/obis-usa/ipt/archive.do?r=wod_2009
Publication date of data: 2020-11-17
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2020-11-13
Hierarchy level: Dataset