NODC Standard Product: Worldwide ocean water color / water transparency data (NCEI Accession 8900210)
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NCEI Dataset Landing Page
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| @type | dcat:Dataset |
|---|---|
| accessLevel | non-public |
| contactPoint |
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"@type": "vcard:Contact",
"hasEmail": "mailto:ncei.info@noaa.gov"
}
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| describedByType | application/octet-steam |
| description | 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. |
| distribution |
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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",
"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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| landingPage | https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact |
| language |
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| license | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| modified | 2026-02-24T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| publisher |
{
"name": "NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information",
"@type": "org:Organization"
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| rights | otherRestrictions |
| spatial | -108.83,-78.55,-105.88,81.23 |
| 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) |