NODC Standard Product: Worldwide ocean water color / water transparency data (NCEI Accession 8900210)
Data consists of worldwide ocean water color/transparency derived from NODC's ocean station data file from April 1901 to December 1985. The NODC Environmental Information Bulletin 87-1 (EIB 87-1, March 1987) contains a complete explanation of the data and their format.
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| identifier | gov.noaa.nodc:8900210 |
| issued | 1989-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| keyword |
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"8900210",
"CHLOROPHYLL A",
"DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER",
"FLUORESCENCE",
"LIGHT TRANSMISSION",
"PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON",
"PARTICULATE ORGANIC NITROGEN (PON)",
"Secchi depth",
"suspended solids",
"WATER COLOR",
"WATER TRANSPARENCY",
"Secchi disk",
"transmissometer",
"visual observation",
"optical",
"visual observation",
"US National Oceanographic Data Center",
"US National Oceanographic Data Center",
"World-Wide Distribution",
"oceanography",
"DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce",
"EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > CHLOROPHYLL",
"EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > NITROGEN",
"EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > ORGANIC CARBON",
"EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > ORGANIC MATTER",
"EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > SUSPENDED SOLIDS",
"EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS",
"EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > FLUORESCENCE",
"EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > OCEAN COLOR",
"EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > SECCHI DEPTH",
"SECCHI DISKS > SECCHI DISKS",
"TRANSMISSOMETERS",
"VISUAL OBSERVATIONS > VISUAL OBSERVATIONS",
"GEOGRAPHIC REGION > GLOBAL OCEAN"
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| license | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| modified | 2002-11-19T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
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| spatial | 0.0,0.0,-180.0,81.3 |
| temporal | 1901-04-04T00:00:00+00:00/1985-12-31T00:00:00+00:00 |
| title | NODC Standard Product: Worldwide ocean water color / water transparency data (NCEI Accession 8900210) |