World Ocean Atlas 2001: On-line Objective Analyses and Statistics

World Ocean Atlas 2001 contains data for various statistics and objectively analyzed fields for one-degree squares and five-degree squares at standard depth levels for most ocean variables, or in the 0 - 200 meter layer for the integrated plankton biomass values.

Data are compressed and stored in ASCII format. Utilities to decompress the data are provided under UTILS directory. A description of the data format can be found in the data set documentation. For any questions about this product, please e-mail OCLhelp desk.

If you have problems downloading the data, you may try to ftp the data using the following address: ftp://ftp.nodc.noaa.gov/pub/WOA01