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Temperature yearly and pentadal anomaly fields (ASCII files)

Yearly and pentadal anomalies are mean differences for the given time period from WOD04 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.

Yearly temperature anomalies from 1955 to 2003
Depth range from surface to 700 m (16 levels)

 
Pentadal temperature anomalies from 1955-59 to 1994-98
Depth range from surface to 3000 m (28 levels)

 
    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 WOA01 documentation)
     parameter (t=temperature)

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

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