WORLD OCEAN ATLAS 2018 Volume 6: Conductivity

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dc.contributor.authorReagan, J.R.
dc.contributor.authorZweng, M.M.
dc.contributor.authorSeidov, D.
dc.contributor.authorBoyer, T.P.
dc.contributor.authorLocarnini, R.A.
dc.contributor.authorMishonov, A.V.
dc.contributor.authorBaranova, O.K.
dc.contributor.authorGarcia, H.E.
dc.contributor.authorWeathers, K.W.
dc.contributor.authorPaver, C.R.
dc.contributor.authorSmolyar, I.V.
dc.contributor.authorTyler, R.H.
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-25T16:28:50Z
dc.date.available2022-05-25T16:28:50Z
dc.date.issued2019-10
dc.description.abstractThis atlas consists of a description of data analysis procedures and horizontal maps of climatological distribution fields of electrical conductivity at selected standard-depth levels of the World Ocean on one-degree and quarter-degree latitude-longitude grids. The aim of the maps is to illustrate large-scale characteristics of the distribution of ocean conductivity. The fields used to generate these climatological maps were computed by objective analysis of historical conductivity data that were derived from scientifically quality-controlled temperature and salinity data in the World Ocean Database 2018. Maps are presented for climatological composite periods (annual, seasonal, monthly, seasonal and monthly difference fields from the annual mean field, and the number of observations) at 102 standard depths.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was made possible by a grant from the NOAA Climate and Global Change Program, which enabled the establishment of a research group at the National Oceanographic Data Center (now the National Centers for Environmental Information – NCEI). The purpose of this group is to prepare research quality oceanographic databases, as well as to compute objective analyses of, and diagnostic studies based on, these databases. Support is now from base funds and from the NOAA Climate Program Office. The data on which this atlas is based are in World Ocean Database 2018 and are distributed online by NCEI. Many data were acquired as a result of the IOC/IODE Global Oceanographic Data Archaeology and Rescue (GODAR) project, and the IOC/IODE World Ocean Database project (WOD). At NCEI and the World Data System for Oceanography, data archaeology and rescue projects were supported with funding from the NOAA Environmental Science Data and Information Management (ESDIM) Program and the NOAA Climate and Global Change Program which has included support from NASA and DOE. Support for some of the regional IOC/GODAR meetings was provided by the Marine Science and Technology (MAST) program of the European Union. The European Community has also provided support for the Mediterranean Data Archeology and Rescue (MEDAR/MEDATLAS) Project, which has resulted in the inclusion of substantial amounts of ocean profile data from the Mediterranean Sea. Additional Black Sea data have been acquired as a result of a NATO sponsored project. We acknowledge the scientists, technicians, and programmers who have collected and processed data, those individuals who have submitted data to national and regional data centers as well as the managers and staff at the various data centers. We are working on a more substantive and formalized way to acknowledge all those who have collected and contributed to oceanographic measurements, which were used to calculate the fields in the WOA. Until we have such a system in place, we direct the reader’s attention to lists of primary investigators, institutions, and projects, which contributed data (codes can be used to locate data in the World Ocean Database). We also thank our colleagues at the NCEI. Their efforts have made this and similar works possible.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://www.ncei.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/2021-03/WOA18_Vol6_Conductivity%20%281%29.pdfen_US
dc.format.extent39 pagesen_US
dc.genretechnical reportsen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2ucvi-evd4
dc.identifier.citationReagan, J.R., M.M. Zweng, D. Seidov, T.P. Boyer, R.A. Locarnini, A.V. Mishonov, O.K. Baranova, H.E. Garcia, K.W. Weathers, C.R. Paver, I.V. Smolyar, and R.H. Tyler (2019). World Ocean Atlas 2018, Volume 6: Conductivity. A. Mishonov Technical Editor, NOAA Atlas NESDIS 86, 38 pp.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/24723
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherNOAA NESDISen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology
dc.rightsThis is a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. Law.en_US
dc.rightsPublic Domain Mark 1.0*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/*
dc.titleWORLD OCEAN ATLAS 2018 Volume 6: Conductivityen_US
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