page_title: World Ocean Atlas
section_title: Gallery
hierarchical_section_title: World Ocean Atlas / Gallery
caption_attribution_description: English: Annual mean sea surface salinity from the World Ocean Atlas 2009. Salinity here is in practical salinity units (PSU). It is plotted here using a Mollweide projection (using MATLAB and the M_Map package).
context_page_description: The World Ocean Atlas is a data product of the Ocean Climate Laboratory of the National Oceanographic Data Center. The WOA consists of a climatology of fields of in situ ocean properties for the World Ocean. It was first produced in 1994, with later editions at roughly four year intervals in 1998, 2001, 2005, 2009, and 2013.
caption: Annual mean sea surface salinity (WOA 2009)
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