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NOAA World Ocean Database (WOD)

The World Ocean Database (WOD) is the largest uniformly formatted, quality-controlled, publicly available historical subsurface ocean profile database. From Captain Cook's second voyage in 1772 to today's automated Argo floats, global aggregation of ocean variable information including temperature, salinity, oxygen, nutrients, and others vs. depth allow for study and understanding of the changing physical, chemical, and to some extent biological state of the World's Oceans. Browse the bucket via

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Licence: NOAA data disseminated through NODD are open to the public and can be used as desired. <br/> <br/> NOAA makes data openly available to ensure maximum use of our data, and to spur and encourage explora

Evidence quality: 17

Listed in aws-odr public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).

Metadata checked: 2026-10-14T13:20:00.000Z

Evidence

• arn:aws:s3:::noaa-wod-pds
• https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-wod/

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