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Dataset record

Type

Dataset

title in English

NODC World Ocean Database 2001: Plankton Data

Description in English

The World Ocean Database 2001 (WOD01) is an eight CD-ROM product containing over seven million oceanographic stations. Only one disk (WOD01 disk #1) contains plankton tows, which are co-located with two million other Ocean Station Data (OSD) profiles. These two million profiles are then divided into 648 separate "WMO" files, each one representing a single 10x10-degree latitude-longitude WMO grid box of the world. While this layout was necessary and efficient for the 6.9 million non-plankton records, it makes extracting and accessing the plankton data very difficult. Additionally, the World Ocean Atlas 2001 - Volume 5: Plankton contains maps of the distribution of World Ocean Database 2001 plankton taxonomic groups and one-degree latitude-longitude fields of mean zooplankton biomass. Maps for all-data annual and seasonal compositing periods are presented for bacterioplankton, phytoplankton, protist plankton, zooplankton, and plankton biomass. All-data annual maps are also presented for select taxonomic sub-groups within these major categories (e.g., diatoms, copepods, chaetognaths). One-degree latitude-longitude mean fields of annual zooplankton biomass and annual and seasonal zooplankton carbon mass are also provided. OBIS serves 1,281,125 of these plankton records.

Abstract in English

This dataset contains plankton data of the World Ocean Database 2001 (WOD01).

License

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bibliographicCitation

M.E.Conkright, J.I. Antonov, O. Baranova, T.P. Boyer, H.E. Garcia, R. Gelfeld, D. Johnson, R.A. Locarnini, P.P., T.D. O'Brien, I. Smolyar, C. Stephens, 2002: World Pcean Database 2001, Voulme 1: Introduction. Ed: Sydney Levitus, NOAA Atlas NESDIS 42, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washinton, D.C., 167 pp.

Version

1

Release date

May 29 2009 12:00AM