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The WOA05 publications should be cited as follows:
Citation for WOA05 Temperature
Locarnini, R. A., A. V. Mishonov, J. I. Antonov, T. P. Boyer, and H. E. Garcia, 2006. World Ocean Atlas 2005, Volume 1:
Temperature. S. Levitus, Ed. NOAA Atlas NESDIS 61, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 182 pp.
Citation for WOA05 Salinity
Antonov, J. I., R. A. Locarnini, T. P. Boyer, A. V. Mishonov, and H. E. Garcia, 2006. World Ocean Atlas 2005, Volume 2:
Salinity. S. Levitus, Ed. NOAA Atlas NESDIS 62, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 182 pp.
Citation for WOA05 Oxygen
Garcia, H. E., R. A. Locarnini, T. P. Boyer, and J. I. Antonov, 2006. World Ocean Atlas 2005, Volume 3:
Dissolved Oxygen, Apparent Oxygen Utilization, and Oxygen Saturation. S. Levitus, Ed. NOAA Atlas NESDIS 63, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 342 pp.
Citation for WOA05 Nutrients
Garcia, H. E., R. A. Locarnini, T. P. Boyer, and J. I. Antonov, 2006. World Ocean Atlas 2005, Volume 4:
Nutrients (phosphate, nitrate, silicate). S. Levitus, Ed. NOAA Atlas NESDIS 64, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 396 pp.
Note: This information can be found at WOA05 Publication page.
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There are a number of ways you can get this information. You can get the information from climatological temperature fields or from the original data.
To access the climatological fields:
mean temperature at 33 standard depths for each 1-deg latitude X 1-deg longitude square for the world ocean, perform the following steps:
Select temperature as your variable;
spatial resolution (i.e., One Degree);
select objectively analyzed mean;
select annual, seasonal, or monthly fields.
And finally, download the resulting data field.
Note: The data are in compressed format and therefore you will need to uncompress the data.
See Instructions on downloading and reading the WOA05 data and
WOA05 documentation (pdf, 0.16 MB) for the data format description.
A quick way to convert the format to a lat,lon,value comma-delimited format is to use program anlyxyz
which can be found at WOA05 Programs page.
If you want the original data from which the climatologies were calculated, use the WODselect tool.
Select geographic area and data set.
Select all types of data and the geographic area which encompasses the Costa Rica-New York shipping lanes.
Download the data.
The different options for reading the data can be found under Instructions.
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