http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
World Ocean Circulation Experiment global data resource
National Oceanographic Data Center (U.S.)
Provides access to the final version of the data set collected during the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (1990-1997). The WOCE data set is the most comprehensive data set ever collected from the global ocean.
Disc 1: Current meter moorings -- Driftings -- Air-sea fluxes -- Hydrography -- Profiling floats -- Sea surface salinity -- Shipboard ADCP -- Surface meteorology -- Upper ocean thermal -- Disc 2: Bathymetry -- Satellite sea level -- Satellite sea surface temperature -- Satellite surface winds -- Sea level - delayed mode -- Seal level - fast return -- eWOCE.
Also contains inventories, WOCE bibliography, data information unit, search tool, and global data history.
Mode of access: internet from the NODC web site. Address as of 9/11/07: http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/wocev̲3/; current access via PURL.
World Ocean Circulation Experiment global data resource 3.0