MARINE OBSERVATION SOURCE · S013
World Ocean Database (WOD)
Discover marine observations available through World Ocean Database (WOD), including parameters, platforms, spatial and temporal coverage, metadata, and access methods.
- Operator
- NOAA NCEI / IODE
- Role
- Global profile archive / aggregator
- Platforms
- CTD; bottles/OSD; XBT/MBT; profiling floats; drifters; moored buoys; gliders; animal tags; surface-only and more
- Observed variables
- Temperature; salinity; oxygen; nutrients; chlorophyll; tracers; plankton and many other profile variables
- Spatial coverage
- Global
- Period
- 1773-present
- Depth coverage
- Surface to full ocean depth; searchable by deepest measurement
- QC and data mode
- Uniform WOD QC; IQuOD flags/uncertainty options
- Access method
- Use WODselect to build query, choose format/depth-level/QC, submit email, then download generated files
- Indexed download targets
- 13
Canonical parameters
- Beam attenuation / transmissivity
beam_attenuation - Chlorophyll-a concentration
chlorophyll_a - Dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC)
dissolved_inorganic_carbon - Dissolved oxygen concentration
dissolved_oxygen - Nitrate + nitrite
nitrate_plus_nitrite - CO2 partial pressure (pCO2)
pco2 - pH
ph - Phosphate
phosphate - Practical salinity
practical_salinity - Sea-water pressure
sea_water_pressure - Sea-water temperature
sea_water_temperature - Silicate
silicate - Total alkalinity
total_alkalinity
Discovery and access
This is the closest thing to a universal historical in-situ profile existence service.