National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationNODC, National Oceanographic Data CenterDepartment of Commerce
NOAA Satellite and Information Service
You are here: NODC Home > Ocean Climate Laboratory > OCL Products > Heat Content: Climatological temperature fields

Climatological temperature fields (ASCII files)
These climatologies were calculated using all temperature data from the World Ocean Database 2001 (WOD01) and additional temperature data taken on or before November 15, 2003. These climatologies were prepared in order to make the new estimates of heat content for the World Ocean.

To download the temperature climatological files, you may download an individual file or a tar file of all climatological fields (analyzed and unanalyzed mean, number of observations, standard deviations, and grid points) and related statistics.
Information how to download and read the data is available from Instructions.
Climatological temperature file types

  
    File naming conventions:

    [p][tp][ft][g].gz
      |   |    |   |
      |   |    |   grid size (1 = one-degree square file)
      |   |    file type (an,mn,dd,sd,gp)
      |   time period (00=annual; 01-12=months, starting with 01=January; 
      |                 13-16=seasons, starting with 13=Winter (Jan-Mar))
      parameter (t=temperature)

an - analyzed temperature
monthly:1-24 standard depth levels (analyzed)
seasonal:1-24 standard depth levels (average of appropriate analyzed monthly fields),
 25-33 standard depth levels (analyzed)
annual:1-24 standard depth levels (average of 12 analyzed monthly fields),
 25-33 standard depth levels (average of 4 analyzed seasonal fields)
mn - mean (unanalyzed) temperature for 1-degree grids with data
dd - number of temperature measurements per 1-degree grid
sd - standard deviation of temperature measurements per 1-degree grid
gp - number of 1-degree grids with data within radius of influence at each grid
Links to the data files will show up below
 
                                            

  Last modified:    Tue, 11-Sep-2007 19:34 UTC NODC.Webmaster@noaa.gov
 
Like us on FacebookRSS feed
Dept. of Commerce - NOAA - NESDIS - NODC
* External link: You will be leaving the Federal
   Government by following an external link.
Like us on Facebook
Privacy Policy - Disclaimer - Information Quality
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
USA.gov - The U.S. Government's Web Portal