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NODC Standard Product: Worldwide ocean water color / water transparency data (NCEI Accession 8900210)

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: February 28, 2026 | Last Modified: 2026-02-24T00:00:00.000+00:00
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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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 Adriatic Sea Aegean Sea Alboran Sea Andaman Sea or Burma Sea Arabian Sea Arafura Sea Arctic Ocean Baffin Bay Balearic (Iberian) Sea Bali Sea Baltic Sea Banda Sea Barents Sea Bay of Bengal Bay of Biscay (Golfe de Gascogne) Beaufort Sea Bering Sea Bismarck Sea Black Sea Caribbean Sea Celebes Sea (Sulawesi Sea and Mindanao Sea) Ceram Sea or Seram Sea Chukchi Sea Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia Coral Sea Davis Strait East China Sea (Tung Hai) East Siberian Sea English Channel (La Manche) Flores Sea Great Australian Bight Greenland Sea (including Iceland Sea and North Greenland Sea) Gulf of Aden Gulf of Alaska Gulf of America Gulf of Bothnia (Bay of Bothnia and Bothnian Sea) Gulf of Finland Gulf of Guinea Gulf of Oman Gulf of Riga, Sound Sea Gulf of St. Lawrence Gulf of Thailand Halmahera Sea Hudson Bay Hudson Strait Indian Ocean Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland Ionian Sea Japan Sea Jawa (Java) Sea Kara Sea Kattegat, The Sound, Storebælt, Lillebælt Labrador Sea Laccadive Sea Malacca Straits Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin Molucca Sea Mozambique Channel New York Bight North Atlantic Ocean North Pacific Ocean North Sea Northwestern Passages Norwegian Sea Persian Gulf (Gulf of Iran), Strait of Hormuz Philippine Sea Red Sea Ross Sea Sawu Sea Sea of Azov Sea of Okhotsk Selat Makasar (Makasar Strait) Seto Naikai (Inland Sea) Skagerrak Solomon Sea South Atlantic Ocean South China Sea (Nan Hai) South Pacific Ocean Southern Ocean Strait of Gibraltar Tasman Sea Timor Sea Tyrrhenian Sea White Sea Yellow Sea (Hwang Hai) 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 CONTINENT > ASIA > WESTERN ASIA > BLACK SEA CONTINENT > EUROPE > EASTERN EUROPE > BLACK SEA OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN > BARENTS SEA OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN > BEAUFORT SEA OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN > CHUKCHI SEA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > BALTIC SEA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > CARIBBEAN SEA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > DAVIS STRAIT OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF AMERICA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MEXICO OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF ST LAWRENCE OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > MEDITERRANEAN SEA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > MEDITERRANEAN SEA > ADRIATIC SEA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH SEA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORWEGIAN SEA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > ARABIAN SEA OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > ARABIAN SEA > PERSIAN GULF OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > BAY OF BENGAL OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > RED SEA OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > BERING SEA OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > GULF OF ALASKA OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > SEA OF JAPAN OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > SEA OF OKHOTSK OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN > EAST CHINA SEA OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH CHINA AND EASTERN ARCHIPELAGIC SEAS OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH CHINA SEA OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN > YELLOW SEA OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > ROSS SEA

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