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CURRENT - DIRECTION and Other Data from UNKNOWN From World-Wide Distribution from 1939-04-16 to 1984-01-11 (NCEI Accession 8700122)

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: January 11, 2026 | Last Modified: 2002-11-19T00:00:00.000+00:00
This dataset contains an "Atlas of Selected "Modern" Good Quality Deep Data for the World Oceans (excluding the Arctic)". This atlas was compiled by Scripps and contains a world-wide distribution of station data from various sources. These station data parameters include: latitude, longitude, date, ship, data originator, depth, cast, % salinity, % oxygen, % inorganic PO4, % total phosphorus, % silicates, % nitrites, % nitrates, pH, wave height and period, sea state, dry and wet temperature and pressure, and cloud type and amount. Format is similar to old NODC SD2 format.

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