.. _woa:

World Ocean Atlas v2
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Description
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The World Ocean Atlas (WOA) is a data product of the Ocean Climate
Laboratory of the National Oceanographic Data Center. It consists of
objectively analyzed climatological mean fields at 1 degree spatial
resolution. The climatology is based on all data that are available from
the early 1900s to present.

Source
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- `World Ocean Atlas v2 Website`_

Release Policy
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Cite the World Ocean Atlas 2013 for the data sets used (see references).
The World Ocean Atlas 2013 (and all previous versions) are available free
of charge.

References
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- `Oxygen: Garcia et al. 2014a`_
- `Nutrients: Garcia et al. 2014b`_

`bibtex file`_

MPAS-Analysis Tasks
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- :ref:`task_climatologyMapBGC`

.. _`World Ocean Atlas v2 Website`: https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/woa13/
.. _`Oxygen: Garcia et al. 2014a`: https://data.nodc.noaa.gov/woa/WOA13/DOC/woa13_vol3.pdf
.. _`Nutrients: Garcia et al. 2014b`: https://data.nodc.noaa.gov/woa/WOA13/DOC/woa13_vol4.pdf
.. _`bibtex file`: https://web.lcrc.anl.gov/public/e3sm/diagnostics/observations/Ocean/BGC/obs.bib