Polar Science Center Hydrographic Climatology (PHC) https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/106.237 Summary The climatology provides temperature and salinity data at 1X1 degree intervals for all the earth's oceans, down to a depth of 5500m, at incremental depths identical to those provided in the National Oceanographic Data Center's (NODC) World Ocean Atlas (WOA). This global climatology is the combination of NODC's 1998 world climatology (WOA), the Environmental Working Group (EWG) Arctic Ocean Atlas (AOA), and select Canadian data provided by the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (BIO). While the NODC data includes the Arctic ocean, the AOA data provides a better description of this region. Neither of these data fields provides a good representation of the Canadian Archipelago region and nearby bays in the winter months. The data from the Bedford Institute of Oceanography allowed us to bridge this data hole. These three data sets were merged using an optimal interpolation routine such that our PHC retains the high quality world description provided by the WOA while improving the Arctic with the AOA fields and Canadian data. In summary, Polar Science Center Hydrographic Climatology (PHC) = WOA (Levitus) '98 everywhere except in our arctic domain, where we have blended in the AOA field (from EWG), and the BIO data to produce a more realistic arctic region. Identifiers * Local archive identifier: 106.237 Citation Steele, M., et al. 2009. Polar Science Center Hydrographic Climatology. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/106.237 Accessed 19 Apr 2024. If you plan to cite this dataset in a publication, please email us at: datahelp@eol.ucar.edu We may be able to provide an updated citation that includes a DOI. Acknowledgement In addition to the citation reference and any other acknowledgements, please acknowledge NCAR/EOL in your publications with text such as: Data provided by NCAR/EOL under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation. https://data.eol.ucar.edu/ Related projects * ARCSS: NSF Arctic System Science https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/ARCSS Additional information * Spatial Type: grid * Frequency: criteria * Language: English ISO Topic Categories * oceans Categories * Ancillary Info * Arctic * Oceanography Platforms * Models/Analyses Instruments * Computer GCMD Science Keywords * EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE * EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY Documentation * Summary2005.pdf [110 KiB] https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/41A75746620/Summary2005.pdf Related links * homepage: Univ Wash Polar Science Hydrographic Climatology http://psc.apl.washington.edu/Climatology.html * download: Polar Hydrographic Climatology data access http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds285.2/ * info: ARCSS Data Policy https://data.eol.ucar.edu/arctic_projects/arcss/Data_Policy.html * homepage: ARCSS EOL Webpage https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/arcss Temporal coverage * Begin datetime: 1997-01-01 01:01:00 * End datetime: 1998-12-31 23:59:59 Spatial coverage * Maximum (North) Latitude: 89.50 * Minimum (South) Latitude: -89.50 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -179.50 * Maximum (East) Longitude: 179.50 Primary contact information * pointOfContact: Michael Steele https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/224 Additional contact information * author: Michael Steele https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/224 * author: Rebecca Morley https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1217 * author: Wendy Ermold https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1040 * originator: Michael Steele https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/224 Alternate metadata formats * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/106.237?format=datacite * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/106.237?format=isotc211