.. _woa23_t_s:

WOA23 Temperature and Salinity Climatology
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Description
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The World Ocean Atlas 2023 (WOA23) was released on February 14, 2024 and
includes temperature, salinity, oxygen (and parameters Apparent Oxygen
Utilization and percent oxygen saturation) and inorganic nutrients
(phosphate, silicate, and nitrate). WOA23 includes approximately 1.8
million new oceanographic casts added to the WOD since WOA18’s release,
as well as renewed and updated quality controls.

Source
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`NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) website`_

Release Policy
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These data are openly available to the public. Please acknowledge the
use of these data with the text given in the acknowledgment attribute.

References
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- `Locarnini et al. (2024)`_
- `Reagan et al. (2024)`_

`bibtex file`_

MPAS-Analysis Tasks
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- :ref:`task_climatologyMapWoa`

.. _`NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) website`: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/world-ocean-atlas
.. _`Locarnini et al. (2024)`: https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/60599
.. _`Reagan et al. (2024)`: https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/60600
.. _`bibtex file`: https://web.lcrc.anl.gov/public/e3sm/diagnostics/observations/Ocean/WOA23/obs.bib