Datasets / OW Levitus Climatology


OW Levitus Climatology

Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce

Issued over 9 years ago

US
beta

Summary

Type of release
ongoing release of a series of related datasets

Data Licence
Not Applicable

Content Licence
Creative Commons CCZero

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

The dataset consists of global monthly temperature and salinity climatologies with a spatial resolution of 1x1 degree, and consists of 19 levels (surface - 5000m). It was created by Sydney Levitus (1982) and includes a synthesis of all temperature, salinity and oxygen data available from the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC).