The time series of yearly, pentadal, and 3-month vertical mean salinity are presented for the 0-100, 0-700, and 0-2000 meters layers.
There are one file of yearly and pentadal vertical mean salinity and four files of 3-month vertical mean salinity per each depth layer for each of four major oceanic basins: the World Ocean, the Pacific Ocean,
the Atlantic Ocean (which includes the entire Arctic Ocean), and the Indian Ocean. Each file contains the integral for the entire basin (OB),
the northern hemisphere part of the basin (NHPB), and the southern hemisphere part of the basin (SHPB).
Information how to download and read the data is available from Instructions.
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| 3-Month vertical mean salinity (2005 to present) |
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| - Atlantic: |
0 - 100,
0 - 700,
0 - 2000 meters (Jan-Mar)
0 - 100,
0 - 700,
0 - 2000 meters (Apr-Jul)
0 - 100,
0 - 700,
0 - 2000 meters (Aug-Sep)
0 - 100,
0 - 700,
0 - 2000 meters (Oct-Dec)
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| - Indian: |
0 - 100,
0 - 700,
0 - 2000 meters (Jan-Mar)
0 - 100,
0 - 700,
0 - 2000 meters (Apr-Jul)
0 - 100,
0 - 700,
0 - 2000 meters (Aug-Sep)
0 - 100,
0 - 700,
0 - 2000 meters (Oct-Dec)
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| - Pacific: |
0 - 100,
0 - 700,
0 - 2000 meters (Jan-Mar)
0 - 100,
0 - 700,
0 - 2000 meters (Apr-Jul)
0 - 100,
0 - 700,
0 - 2000 meters (Aug-Sep)
0 - 100,
0 - 700,
0 - 2000 meters (Oct-Dec)
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| - World: |
0 - 100,
0 - 700,
0 - 2000 meters (Jan-Mar)
0 - 100,
0 - 700,
0 - 2000 meters (Apr-Jul)
0 - 100,
0 - 700,
0 - 2000 meters (Aug-Sep)
0 - 100,
0 - 700,
0 - 2000 meters (Oct-Dec)
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FILE NAMING CONVENTIONS:
S-pss-[Y]0-[Z]m[X1-X2].dat
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| | | | | | the filename extension
| | | | | the 3-month period, where: '1-3' for Jan-Mar, '4-6' for Apr-Jul,
| | | | | '7-9' for Aug-Sep, '10-12' for Oct-Dec
| | | | the label refering to depth in meters
| | | the lower depth of integration ('700')
| | the upper depth of integration ('0' stands for the sea surface)
| ocean basins: w - World, p - Pacific, a - Atlantic, i - Indian
the label for vertical mean salinity
For example, file 'S-pss-w0-700m1-3.dat' contains the time series of ocean 3-month (Jan-Mar)
vertical mean salinity of the 0-700 m layer for the World Ocean
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DATA FORMAT:
Data in each file is organized in column form:
each column corresponds to the time series for ocean basins as outlined below.
1st column - year+0.5 (for the yearly vertical mean salinity) or mid-point
of five-year compositing period (for the pentadal vertical mean salinity);
2nd column - time series of vertical mean salinity of OB;
3rd column - time series of the standard error of vertical mean salinity of OB;
4th column - time series of vertical mean salinity of NHPB;
5th column - time series of the standard error of vertical mean salinity of NHPB;
6th column - time series of vertical mean salinity of SHPB;
7th column - time series of the standard error of vertical mean salinity of SHPB.
The first line of file contains the labels for each of 7 columns.
Read the second line through the last line using an equivalent of the FORTRAN FORMAT
(F8.1, 6F8.3) statement.
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