Global Ocean Temperature and Salinity Profiles from WOCE Floats, 1994-2002

From 1994-11-07 to 2002-01-19, temperature, salinity, and pressure data were collected globally using profiling floats. The data were submitted by the Marine Environmental Data Service (MEDS) as part of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) project. It is hosted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Use Cases

• Modeling global ocean circulation patterns based on temperature and salinity profiles.
• Analyzing water mass distribution and variability based on the global float data.
• Calibrating and validating satellite-derived sea surface salinity measurements based on in-situ profile data.
• Studying long-term changes in ocean heat content based on the multi-year time series.

Strengths

• Global spatial coverage from profiling floats.
• Multi-year temporal coverage from 1994 to 2002.
• Data collected as part of the authoritative World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) project.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data format is listed as HTML, which may require extraction to a structured format for analysis.

Provenance

Source

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce

Collection Method

Collected by profiling floats and submitted by the Marine Environmental Data Service (MEDS).

Time Range

1994-11-07 to 2002-01-19

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-05 23:16:38.219977; freshness should be verified.

Geography

World-wide distribution