Description:
This set is a collection of ca. 2200 vertical sections assembled from the original NODC
data files contributing to SIO Professor Joseph Reid's World Ocean data
collection. From the many thousands of cruises in NODC Archives, and some
newer cruises originally from colleagues, over more than two decades Joe
sifted for the best available data from each region of the World Ocean
(except for the Arctic). His intended purpose was to make maps of water
properties, and so he cut off stations from a cruise where a better (better
for his purposes) cruise overlapped it. He made corrections to many of the
data for known offsets (mostly standard seawater batch offsets). Here we
went into the NODC files and retrieved the entire cruise data set for each
cruise Joe used, assembled the stations into sensible vertical sections,
applied the same corrections Joe used, and then we culled many bad data
values. The resulting 2200 sections represent the basic data knowledge of
the deep ocean basins prior to the 1990s. The data sets all include
temperature and salinity, nearly all have dissolved oxygen data, and most
have nutrient (NO3, PO4, and/or SiO3) data.
