World Ocean Atlas 2005 (WOA05) Data for Ocean Data View

 The objectively analyzed global ocean historical hydrographic data
 from the U.S. NODC World Ocean Atlas 2005 are provided in ODV
 collection format, ready to be used with the Ocean Data View analysis
 and visualization software.

 WOA05 data are available at 1°x1° resolution. The collections
 contain data for the following set of variables:

 Temperature [°C]
 Salinity [psu]
 Oxygen [ml/l]
 Oxygen Saturation [%]
 AOU [ml/l]
 Phosphate [~$m~#mol/l]
 Nitrate [~$m~#mol/l]
 Silicate [~$m~#mol/l]

 For each of these variables, except for Oxygen Saturation and AOU,
 the following data are provided in the 1°x1° ODV collections (data
 types are indicated by prefix to variable labels):

 prefix
 ________________________________________________
 (none): all-data objectively analyzed mean
     ma: seasonal or monthly difference fields
     dd: number of observations
     sd: standard deviation of data
     se: standard error of the mean of data
     mn: unanalyzed mean of data
     oa: interpolation error fields

 For Oxygen Saturation and AOU only the objectively analyzed mean
 fields are provided.
 
 Data are provided at the following standard depths (in m): 0, 10, 20,
 30, 50, 75, 100, 125, 150, 200, 250, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800,
 900, 1000, 1100, 1200, 1300, 1400, 1500, 1750, 2000, 2500, 3000,
 3500, 4000, 4500, 5000, 5500.
 
 Note that the files are large (up to 70/190 MB zipped/unzipped).

 For more information on WOA05 see:
 http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/WOA05/pr_woa05.html
 
 ODV data collection produced from WOA05 files by
 R. Schlitzer, Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven

 The Ocean Data View software is available from:
 http://odv.awi.de