The data are from the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE). Within the framework of this project, more than 30 nations carried out expeditions from 1990 to 1990, providing a coordinated survey of the entire ocean. The observations from research vessels and satellites have thus provided a unique data set as a basis for atlases. Up to now these have been published for the Southern Ocean and the Pacific. The hydrographic data for the Atlantic were processed by Gouretski, qualitatively adapted and compared with historical data. The entire data basis, the WOCE Climatology of the World Oceans, is also available online.
to the Atlantic Atlas
to the WOCE Climatology of the World Oceans
to the WOCE Project