World Ocean Circulation Experiment global data resource 3.0
By: WOCE International Project Office
Edition: Version 3.0.
Series: WOCE report -- no. 180/02
Publisher: WOCE Data Products Committee, WOCE International Project Office
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Southampton, U.K
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Subjects: Databases; Ocean circulation; Oceanography; Ocean; Remote sensing; Hydrography; Ocean-atmosphere interaction; Marine meteorology; Ocean temperature; Observations; Salinity; Sea level; Ocean currents; Winds; Speed; World Ocean Circulation Experiment
Other titles: WOCE Global Data; WOCE Global Data version 3.0 DVDs; EWOCE electronic atlas of WOCE data.
Description: Presents more than 90% of all data collected by the WOCE program with a search tool that facilitates location of all files for a given area, time period or other parameter. Also presents an electronic atlas of WOCE data for interactive analysis.
Notes: Title from index file.

"[A]cknowledges the support of the U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) in funding the reproduction of the WOCE global data version 3.0 DVDs"--User's manual, p. 2.

"August 2002"--Disc label.

Numeric data presented in network Common Data Form (netCDF); complete database file of WOCE data available in Microsoft Access format; documentation presented in ASCII, HTML and Adobe Acrobat PDF formats; eWOCE map data presented for use with Ocean Data View software.

Electronic text, numeric and representational data.

Also available via Internet from the NODC web site. Address as of 9/11/07: http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/woce_v3/; current access via PURL.

System requirements: DVD reader; Internet browser.
Table of contents: title: Disc 1: Data information unit; title: Air-sea fluxes; title: Current meter moorings; title: Driftings (Surface velocity prog.); title: Hydrography; title: Profiling floats; title: Sea surface salinity; title: Shipboard ADCP; title: Subsurface floats; title: Surface meteorology; title: Upper ocean thermal; title: Disc 2: Data information unit; title: Bathymetry; title: In situ sea level (fast delivery); title: In situ sea level (delayed mode); title: Satellite sea surface temperature; title: Satellite sea surface height; title: Satellite surface winds; title: eWOCE: electronic atlas of WOCE data.