Oceanographic data

This file contains physical-chemical oceanographic data at various depth levels by using muliti-bottle Nansen casts ,CTD,BT or other types of instruments.
It has been able to download data in ODV spreadsheet and NetCDF, besides JODC standard format (FETI format), since September 2003.

Data Source
: Domestic Marine Agencies, Universities and NODC
Geographic Area : Worldwide oceans
Time Period : 1772 - 2009
Data Volume : 17,197,058 stations
Retrieval Key : Country Code, Institution Code, Observed Date, Ship Code, Observed Area(Lat., Lon.), Project Code, Observation Item

Data Type

ID Data Type Period Volume
01 Temperature 1772-2009 9,902,582
02 Salinity 1874-2009 4,853,817
10 pH 1904-2007 164,736
11 DO 1893-2008 722,884
12 P 1900-2008 404,755
13 Total-P 1940-2003 4,179
14 Si 1900-2008 288,838
15 NO3-N 1900-2008 237,605
16 NO2-N 1900-2008 26,833
17 NH4-N 1957-2003 3,715
18 NO3-N + NO2-N 1999-2003 271
32 pCO2 1984-2003 2,946
41 Chlorophyl-a 1900-2008 167,142
42 Alkalinity 1921-2004 29,990
43 Phaeophytin 1968-2008 18,963
44 Total-N 1975-2003 170
45 TOC 1957-2003 1,152
46 Saturated HydroCarbon (HC) 1957-2003 2,196
83 Pressure 1911-2008 350,250
90 COD 1957-2003 2,178
91 BOD 1976-1984 14
92 Hg 1964-2002 1,768
93 Lead (Pb) 1957-2003 1,262
94 Total-Hg 1957-2003 2,208
95 Cadmium :Cd 1957-2003 3,783
96 Arsenic:As 1957-1992 1,130
97 PCB 1957-2003 1,646
98 Suspended Solid(SS) 1972-1984 19
IQ Ca 1993-1994 13
IR Mg 1993-1994 13

Instruments

ID Instruments Period Volume
SD Nansen casts 1772-2008 1,827,364
SS STD 1954-2006 23,801
SC CTD 1964-2009 736,536
SX XCTD 1981-2009 3,735
BT MBT 1941-2002 2,377,534
BD DBT 1977-2006 53,156
BX XBT 1966-2009 1,901,209
IT intake 2001-2008 2,882,954
BA AXBT 1972-2003 25,011
SB bucket 2001-2002 46
99 unknown 1951-2001 374,129

Time series of Data Count(data Type)
Time series of Data Count(Instruments Type)
Time series of Data Count(Country)

Staion Map

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Last update: November 27, 2009