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WORLD OCEAN ATLAS 2013 version 2


World Ocean Atlas 2013 version 2 (WOA13 V2) is a set of objectively analyzed (1° grid) climatological fields of in situ temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, Apparent Oxygen Utilization (AOU), percent oxygen saturation, phosphate, silicate, and nitrate at standard depth levels for annual, seasonal, and monthly compositing periods for the World Ocean. It also includes associated statistical fields of observed oceanographic profile data interpolated to standard depth levels on 5°, 1°, and 0.25° grids. More info (215 KB).

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  • WOA13 V2 changes (0.1 MB) - differences to calculations version 2 from original WOA13
  • WOA13 V2 data - access to statistical and objectively analyzed fields
  • WOAselect - user specified query accessing V2 (ArcGIS, ASCII formats)