WOD2005 data updates

WORLD OCEAN DATABASE 2005 DATA UPDATES

All casts with major updates since the release of WOD05

Comments about data updates	- contains complete listing of comments about data updates
Comments by category updates	- contains comments sorted by category updates

new files are data added since the release of WOD05; update files are data changed or replaced since the release of WOD05; wmochanges and yearchanges are WMO square files and Year files for which there have been updates or new data added.
Note: new and update data have not passed the full sets of quality control as data included in WOD05 and should be considered preliminary data.

new.O.OSDJan2008.gz
new.S.OSDJan2008.gz new.O.CTDJan2008.gz
new.S.CTDJan2008.gz new.O.MBTJan2008.gz
new.S.MBTJan2008.gz new.O.XBTJan2008.gz
new.S.XBTJan2008.gz new.O.MRBJan2008.gz
new.S.MRBJan2008.gz new.O.PFLJan2008.gz
new.S.PFLJan2008.gz new.O.UORJan2008.gz
new.S.UORJan2008.gz new.O.DRBJan2008.gz
new.S.DRBJan2008.gz

Dataset	Updates	New Data	WMO listing	Year listing
OSD	update.O.OSD.gz update.S.OSD.gz	wmochanges.OSD	yearchanges.OSD
CTD	update.O.CTD.gz update.S.CTD.gz	wmochanges.CTD	yearchanges.CTD
MBT	update.O.MBT.gz update.S.MBT.gz	wmochanges.MBT	yearchanges.MBT
XBT	update.O.XBT.gz update.S.XBT.gz	wmochanges.XBT	yearchanges.XBT
MRB	update.O.MRB.gz update.S.MRB.gz	wmochanges.MRB	yearchanges.MRB
PFL	update.O.PFL.gz update.S.PFL.gz	wmochanges.PFL	yearchanges.PFL
UOR	update.O.UOR.gz update.S.UOR.gz	wmochanges.UOR	yearchanges.UOR
DRB	update.O.DRB.gz update.S.DRB.gz	wmochanges.DRB	yearchanges.DRB

Files of the form update(new).O.DATASET.gz or update(new).S.DATASET.gz, contain all major updates for the named dataset since the release of WOD05. Refer to WOD05 documentation for additional details. Refer to instructions on downloading and reading WOD05 data The .O. denotes observed measurements, .S. denotes measurements interpolated to standard levels. A major update is a change to position (latitude/longitude), date (year, month, day, (not GMT time), or depth/measured variable. Major updates are made in the course of continuing quality control of the data and communication with the submittor of the data.

User can get all updates for specific dataset (i.e., update.O.OSD) or updates for a particular month (i.e., update.O.OSDJan2008) under each date stamped link.

Each geographically sorted or time sorted file affected by a major change has been updated as well. Lists of all files updated with major changes are under wmochanges.DATASET (geographic) and yearchanges.DATASET (time), along with the month/year of the last major update to this file. Links are provided to these files.

It should be noted that all geographically and time sorted files are also updated with any minor changes which have been made. Minor changes are all changes not covered in the definition of major changes, and include cruise number, country of origin, ship name, time.

A time stamp has been added to any cast which is part of an updated file. The time stamp is found under second header #99, and is of the form [4digit year][julian year day] (ex. 2008001 means the cast was last updated January, 2008).

Monthly updates since the release of WOD05
(Updates before January 2008)

January 2008

Dataset	Composite file sorted by dataset
Dataset	.O. files - observed measurement	.S. files - data interpolated to standard levels
OSD	update.O.OSDJan2008.gz	update.S.OSDJan2008.gz
CTD	update.O.CTDJan2008.gz	update.S.CTDJan2008.gz
MBT	update.O.MBTJan2008.gz	update.S.MBTJan2008.gz
XBT	update.O.XBTJan2008.gz	update.S.XBTJan2008.gz
PFL	update.O.PFLJan2008.gz	update.S.PFLJan2008.gz

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