WOCE- Bathymetric Data Version
3.0: April 2002
This was a product of the US National Geophysical Data Center and the WOCE Data Information Unit with assistance from the British Oceanographic Data Centre
Version 3.0: April 2002
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WOCE- Bathymetric Data Version
3.0: April 2002 This was a product of the US National Geophysical Data Center and the WOCE Data Information Unit with assistance from the British Oceanographic Data Centre |
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Version 3.0: April 2002 |
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Corrected depths and positions are available for 56 One-Time Hydrographic Cruises and 29 Repeat Cruises. Archived copies are in the NGDC Marine Trackline Database (GEODAS) and locatable by the NGDC identifier, by a search on "WOCE" or by Expocode and Line number.
The Marine Geology and Geophysics Division of the National Geophysical Data Center and the WOCE DIU have collaborated in assembling and quality controlling the available bathymetry data sets from WOCE cruises. These data were in a variety formats and in many cases a judgment needed to be made as to whether sound velocity corrections have been applied. Observation times were not always available.
We invite you to The header and data files are in the internationally used MGD77 ASCII format. Within the 120 byte data format only the data set identifier, position, and corrected depth fields are certain to contain significant data. They are also available as NetCDF files.
Please contact the US National Geophysical Data Center with queries about the datasets quoting the NGDC Reference Number given tin the table.
This disk should be referenced as "WOCE Data Products Committee. 2002. WOCE Global Data, Version 3.0, WOCE International Project Office, WOCE Report No. 180/02, Southampton, UK.