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WOD Updates
World Ocean Database Updates
(All casts with major updates since the release of WOD23)
- Lists of removed unique casts - contains monthly listings of removed unique casts
- Lists of changes by WMOs/years - contains listing of WMO square files and Year files for which there have been updates or new data added
- Comments about data updates - contains complete listing of comments about data updates
New Data (new files are data added since the release of WOD23)
Note: new data added after the release of the WOD23 have not gone through the full set of quality control procedures and should be considered preliminary.
| OSD |
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MBT |
XBT |
MRB |
PFL |
UOR |
DRB |
APB |
GLD |
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| Nov 2024 |
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| Aug 2024 |
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| May 2024 |
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| Jan 2024 |
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- Files of the form update.O.DATASET.gz or update.S.DATASET.gz, contain all major updates for the named dataset since the release of WOD23. Refer to WOD23 documentation for additional details. Refer to instructions on downloading and reading WOD/WOA data.
- A major update is a change to position (latitude/longitude), date (year, month, day, (not GMT time), or depth/measured variable. Major updates are made in the course of continuing quality control of the data and communication with the submittor of the data.
- User can get all updates for specific dataset (i.e., update.O.OSD) or updates for a particular month (i.e., update.O.OSDJan2023) under each date stamped link.
- A time stamp has been added to any cast which is part of an updated file. The time stamp is found under second header #99, and is of the form [4digit year][julian year day] (ex. 202301 means the cast was last updated January, 2023).
Updated Data (updated files are data changed or replaced since the release of WOD23)
| Dataset | .O. files - observed measurement | .S. files - data interpolated to standard levels |
|---|---|---|
| OSD | update.O.OSD.gz | update.S.OSD.gz |
| CTD | update.O.CTD.gz | update.S.CTD.gz |
| MBT | update.O.MBT.gz | update.S.MBT.gz |
| XBT | update.O.XBT.gz | update.S.XBT.gz |
| MRB | update.O.MRB.gz | update.S.MRB.gz |
| PFL | update.O.PFL.gz | update.S.PFL.gz |
| UOR | update.O.UOR.gz | update.S.UOR.gz |
| DRB | update.O.DRB.gz | update.S.DRB.gz |
| APB | update.O.APB.gz | update.S.APB.gz |
| GLD | update.O.GLD.gz | update.S.GLD.gz |
Quarterly updates since the release of WOD23
January 2025
| Dataset | .O. files - observed measurement (Composite file sorted by dataset) |
.S. files - data interpolated to standard levels (Composite file sorted by dataset) |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 2025 quarterly updates data temporarily unavailable | ||
November 2024
| Dataset | .O. files - observed measurement (Composite file sorted by dataset) |
.S. files - data interpolated to standard levels (Composite file sorted by dataset) |
|---|---|---|
| XBT | update.O.XBTNov2024.gz | update.S.XBTNov2024.gz |
| MRB | update.O.MRBNov2024.gz | update.S.MRBNov2024.gz |
| APB | update.O.APBNov2024.gz | update.S.APBNov2024.gz |
August 2024
| Dataset | .O. files - observed measurement (Composite file sorted by dataset) |
.S. files - data interpolated to standard levels (Composite file sorted by dataset) |
|---|---|---|
| OSD | update.O.OSDAug2024.gz | update.S.OSDAug2024.gz |
| CTD | update.O.CTDAug2024.gz | update.S.CTDAug2024.gz |
| XBT | update.O.XBTAug2024.gz | update.S.XBTAug2024.gz |
| MRB | update.O.MRBAug2024.gz | update.S.MRBAug2024.gz |
| PFL | update.O.PFLAug2024.gz | update.S.PFLAug2024.gz |
| APB | update.O.APBAug2024.gz | update.S.APBAug2024.gz |
May 2024
| Dataset | .O. files - observed measurement (Composite file sorted by dataset) |
.S. files - data interpolated to standard levels (Composite file sorted by dataset) |
|---|---|---|
| OSD | update.O.OSDMay2024.gz | update.S.OSDMay2024.gz |
| XBT | update.O.XBTMay2024.gz | update.S.XBTMay2024.gz |
| MRB | update.O.MRBMay2024.gz | update.S.MRBMay2024.gz |
| PFL | update.O.PFLMay2024.gz | update.S.PFLMay2024.gz |
| APB | update.O.APBMay2024.gz | update.S.APBMay2024.gz |
January 2024
| Dataset | .O. files - observed measurement (Composite file sorted by dataset) |
.S. files - data interpolated to standard levels (Composite file sorted by dataset) |
|---|---|---|
| MRB | update.O.MRBJan2024.gz | update.S.MRBJan2024.gz |
| PFL | update.O.PFLJan2024.gz | update.S.PFLJan2024.gz |
