CSIRO Atlas of Regional Seas (CARS) - 2006 translated to CF1.4 standard

The CSIRO Atlas of Regional Seas (CARS) is a digital climatology, or atlas of seasonal ocean water properties. CARS2006 spans the southern 2/3 of the world's oceans, from 70S to 26N, except in the Atlantic where is reaches only to 10N. The six water properties mapped in are temperature, salinity, oxygen, nitrate, silicate, phosphate. It comprises historic mean fields and average seasonal cycles, derived from all available historical subsurface ocean property measurements (primarily research vessel instrument casts and autonomous profiling buoys). Translated to conform to the CF1.4 convention.

区域海洋CSIRO图集（CSIRO Atlas of Regional Seas, 简称CARS）是一套数字气候学数据集，亦可称为季节性海洋水属性图集。CARS2006覆盖了全球海洋的南部三分之二区域，纬度范围为南纬70°至北纬26°，仅大西洋海域例外，其覆盖范围仅延伸至北纬10°。该图集共映射六种海洋水属性，分别为温度、盐度、溶解氧、硝酸盐、硅酸盐与磷酸盐。其数据包含历史平均场与平均季节循环序列，源自所有可获取的历史次表层海洋属性测量资料，主要包括研究船仪器观测剖面与自主剖面浮标数据。该数据集已按照CF1.4公约（CF1.4 convention）完成格式标准化处理。