CSIRO Atlas of Regional Seas (CARS) - 2009

The CSIRO Atlas of Regional Seas (CARS) is a digital climatology, or atlas of seasonal ocean water properties. It comprises gridded fields of mean ocean properties over the period of modern ocean measurement, and average seasonal cycles for that period. It is derived from a quality-controlled archive of all available historical subsurface ocean property measurements - primarily research vessel instrument casts and autonomous profiling buoys. As data availability has enormously increased in recent years, the CARS mean values are inevitably biased towards the recent ocean state. CARS2009 covers the full global oceans, and includes temperature, salinity, oxygen, nitrate, silicate and phosphate fields. Full documentation and sample images available on the CARS webpage澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究组织（CSIRO）区域海洋图集（CARS）是一套数字气候数据集，即季节性海水属性图集。该数据集包含现代海洋观测时段内的平均海洋属性网格化场，以及该时段内的平均季节循环特征。其数据源为经过质量管控的全部可用历史次表层海洋属性测量档案，主要包括研究船仪器观测剖面与自主剖面浮标数据。由于近年来可用数据量大幅增长，CARS的平均值不可避免地偏向于近期的海洋状态。CARS2009覆盖全球所有海域，包含温度、盐度、溶解氧、硝酸盐、硅酸盐与磷酸盐要素的网格化场。完整文档与示例图像可在CARS官方网页获取。