NODC Standard Product: World ocean database 2005 (NODC Accession 0099241)

The World Ocean Database 2005 (WOD05) DVD contains data, documentation, programs, and utilities for the latest release of this product. Data include 7.9 million temperature profiles, and 2.7 million salinity profiles, plus data for 27 other in situ measurements, including oxygen, nutrients and chemical tracers, chlorophyll, carbon variables, and plankton.

Data on the DVD are organized by instrument type. Within each instrument directory, the data are stored by year. Data are stored in ASCII format, and gzip compressed. Utilities are provided under the directory UTILS for both UNIX and DOS operating systems.

This DVD contains six directories named:

CODES (contains codes associated with the secondary header, biological header, and taxa data)

DATA (contains yearly sorted data, dating from 1773 though 2005)

DOC (contains the documentation)

ODV (contains the Ocean Data View software for viewing the WOD05 data, developed by Dr. Reiner Schiltzer, AWI. This software will decompress selected files and offers users several options for viewing the WOD05 data. ODV works on PCs only).

PROGRAMS (contains source code and executables for programs which are examples of how to read the data and can be used to reformat the data into comma-delimited or space-delimited forms).

UTILS (contains the gzip utility for uncompressing WOD05 data files.)

The World Ocean Database DVDs are currently available via the NODC Online Store at http://ols.nndc.noaa.gov/plolstore/plsql/olstore.prodspecific?prodnum=5586.

世界海洋数据库2005版（World Ocean Database 2005，WOD05）光盘包含该产品最新正式版本的相关数据、文档、程序及工具集。本次收录的数据包含790万条温度剖面、270万条盐度剖面，此外另有27项原位测量数据，涵盖溶解氧、营养盐与化学示踪剂、叶绿素、碳变量及浮游生物相关内容。

光盘内的数据按仪器类型进行分类组织。每个仪器目录下，数据再按年份存储。所有数据均以ASCII格式存储并经gzip压缩。UTILS目录下提供了适用于UNIX及DOS操作系统的配套工具。

本光盘共包含六个目录，具体如下：
CODES：包含与次级头文件、生物头文件及分类群数据相关的代码文件
DATA：包含按年份排序的数据集，时间跨度为1773年至2005年
DOC：包含该数据集的官方文档资料
ODV：包含用于查看WOD05数据的海洋数据查看软件（Ocean Data View，ODV），该软件由AWI的莱纳·席尔策（Reiner Schiltzer）博士开发。此软件支持解压选定文件，并为用户提供多种WOD05数据可视化查看选项，且仅可在个人计算机上运行。
PROGRAMS：包含示例程序的源代码与可执行文件，用于演示数据读取方法，同时可将数据重新格式化为逗号分隔或空格分隔的形式。
UTILS：包含用于解压WOD05数据文件的gzip工具。

目前，世界海洋数据库光盘可通过国家海洋数据中心（National Oceanographic Data Center，NODC）在线商店获取，访问地址为http://ols.nndc.noaa.gov/plolstore/plsql/olstore.prodspecific?prodnum=5586。