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Temperature 3-month period, pentadal, and yearly anomaly fields (ASCII files)
Yearly, pentadal, and 3-month anomalies are mean differences for the given time period from monthly mean
climatologies. To download the temperature anomaly files, you may download an individual file or a tar file of all
years for a particular type of a parameter (i.e., all years of the temperature analyzed anomalies in one tar file).

Information how to download and read the data is available from Instructions.
3-Month temperature anomalies from 1955-present
Depth range from surface to 700 m (1955-2004)
Depth range from surface to 2000 m (2004-present) 
    File naming conventions:

    [p][ft]_[by][ey][bm]-[em].dat
     |  |    |   |   |    |
     |  |    |   |   |    two digits of ending month
     |  |    |   |   two digits of beginning month
     |  |    |   last two digits of ending year
     |  |    last two digits of beginning year
     |  file type (an,dd,sd,gp) 
     parameter (t - temperature)

Note: year 2000 is presented as A0, 2001 is A1, etc.
      year 2010 is presented as B0

Pentadal temperature anomalies from 1955-59 to 2008-12
Depth range from surface to 2000 m

Yearly temperature anomalies from 1955 to present
Depth range from surface to 700 m (1955-2004)
Depth range from surface to 2000 m (2004-present) 
    File naming conventions:

    [p][ft]_[by][ey].dat
     |  |    |   |
     |  |    |   last two digits of ending year
     |  |    last two digits of beginning year
     |  file type (an,dd,sd,gp)(see WOA09 documentation)
     parameter (t=temperature)

Note: year 2000 is presented as A0, 2001 is A1, etc.
      year 2010 is presented as B0
Links to the data files will show up below
 
                                            

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