World War II (1939-1945) Oceanographic Observations

S Levitus; S Matishov; I Smolyar; O K Baranova; M M Zweng; T Tielking; N Mikhailov; S Kizu; F Nast; G Reed; R Keeley; L Rickards; A Korablev

doi:10.2481/dsj.13-030

Data Science Journal (Sep 2013)

World War II (1939-1945) Oceanographic Observations

S Levitus,
S Matishov,
I Smolyar,
O K Baranova,
M M Zweng,
T Tielking,
N Mikhailov,
S Kizu,
F Nast,
G Reed,
R Keeley,
L Rickards,
A Korablev

Affiliations

S Levitus: National Oceanographic Data Center, 1315 East West Highway, Silver Spring, MD, 20910, USA ICSU World Data Center for Oceanography, Silver Spring, MD, USA
S Matishov: Southern Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
I Smolyar: National Oceanographic Data Center, 1315 East West Highway, Silver Spring, MD, 20910, USA
O K Baranova: National Oceanographic Data Center, 1315 East West Highway, Silver Spring, MD, 20910, USA
M M Zweng: National Oceanographic Data Center, 1315 East West Highway, Silver Spring, MD, 20910, USA
T Tielking: National Oceanographic Data Center, 1315 East West Highway, Silver Spring, MD, 20910, USA
N Mikhailov: Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology & Environmental Monitoring, All-Russia Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information - World Data Center, 6, Korolev St., Obninsk, Kaluga Region, Russian Federation, 249035
S Kizu: Physical Oceanography Laboratory, Department of Geophysics, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
F Nast: Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie, Deutsches Ozeanographisches Datenzentrum, Bernhard-Nocht Str. 78, 20359 Hamburg, Germany
G Reed: Australian Ocean Data Centre Joint Facility, Fleet Headquarters, Wylde Street Building 89, Garden Island Potts Point NSW 2011, Australia
R Keeley: 2243 Rembrandt Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
L Rickards: British Oceanographic Data Centre, Joseph Proudman Building, 6 Brownlow Street, Liverpool L3 5DA, UK
A Korablev: Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, Allégaten 70, 5020 Bergen, Norway

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2481/dsj.13-030
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12
pp. 102 – 157

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We document the geographical and temporal distributions of oceanographic vertical profile observations made during World War II (1939-1945) that are included in the " World Ocean Database " (WOD). The WOD is a product of the NOAA/National Oceanographic Data Center, USA and its co-located ICSU World Data Center for Oceanography. The WOD is the largest collection of ocean profile data available internationally without restriction. All data shown in this paper are available online without restriction and at no cost. The WOD is built upon the international exchange of oceanographic data with contributions of data received from many countries. Most of the data shown in this paper and the data within the WOD in which these data reside in a uniform format were gathered under the auspices of the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) committee of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO and the ICSU (International Council of Science) World Data Center system, which is now part of the ICSU World Data System. The WOD contains 112,714 ocean station data casts and 45,003 mechanical bathythermograph profiles for 1939-1945

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ISSN: 1683-1470 (Online)
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science: Science (General)
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