Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) data from the World Ocean Database 2005 (WOD05) collection in netcdf format

World Ocean Database 2005 (WOD05) is a scientifically quality-controlled database of selected historical in situ surface and subsurface oceanographic measurements produced by the Ocean Climate Laboratory (OCL) at the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. WOD05 updates and expands on the earlier version, World Ocean Database 2001 (WOD01), by including new variables and datasets. WOD05 was created to provide the full set of data and quality control procedures used to calculate climatologies of temperature, salinity, oxygen, phosphate, silicate, and nitrate to produce World Ocean Atlas 2005 (WOA05). This dataset includes the data collected by XBT probes, the original data have been translated to yearly netcdf files.

2005年世界海洋数据库（World Ocean Database 2005，WOD05）是一套经过科学质量控制的数据库，收录经遴选的历史原位表层及次表层海洋观测资料，由美国马里兰州银泉市国家海洋数据中心（National Oceanographic Data Center，NODC）下属的海洋气候实验室（Ocean Climate Laboratory，OCL）构建。WOD05对前期版本——2001年世界海洋数据库（World Ocean Database 2001，WOD01）进行了更新与扩充，新增了多项变量与数据集。WOD05的构建初衷是提供完整的数据集与质量管控流程，用于计算温度、盐度、溶解氧、磷酸盐、硅酸盐及硝酸盐的气候态数据，以生成2005年世界海洋图集（World Ocean Atlas 2005，WOA05）。本数据集包含抛弃式温深探仪（Expendable Bathythermograph，XBT）采集的数据，原始数据已被转换为按年度划分的netCDF格式文件。