Alternate title

World Ocean Database 2013 - Biology

Date

Identifier

Phytoplankton generic abundance in water bodies | Abundance of phytoplankton per unit volume of the water body by optical microscopy | NOAA | World Ocean Database 2013 - Biology

Other citation details

WOD13

Purpose

Plankton samples in the World Ocean Database

Status

onGoing On going

Maintenance and update frequency

Unknown

Used by challenges

• Atlantic - CH04 - Climate

Environmental matrix

• Biota - Biology

Production mode

• Delayed

Visibility

• Search via reference catalogue (e.g. MyOcean, GEOSS Geoportal…)

Policy visibility

• There is detailed information provided to understand data policy

Readyness

• Format not proprietary and content clearly specified (e.g. autodescriptive like ODV, NetCDF CF) or at least with appropriate document describing the content

Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (P02)

• Phytoplankton generic abundance in water bodies

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Species distribution

Processing level of characteristics

• High level analyzed

Data delivery mechanisms

• Online discovery + downloading + viewing services (Advanced services)

Parameter Usage Vocabulary (P01)

• Abundance of phytoplankton per unit volume of the water body by optical microscopy

Parameter Usage Vocabulary (other)

• CH4_011

Agreed Parameter Groups (P03)

• Phytoplankton

Service extent

• The datasets are referenced in a public national catalogue, in an international catalogue service

Validation

• Draft

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

Unrestricted

Use limitation

Open and Free. No charge

Spatial representation type

vector Vector

Metadata language

Français

Character set

utf8 UTF8

Topic category

• Oceans

Environment description

Phytoplankton outputs for Climate challenge

Begin date

1900

End date

2007 Before

Number of dimensions

5-100

Dimension name

Time

Resolution

stations  

Transformation parameter availability

Yes

Checkpoint Availability

Yes

Distribution format

• Ascii ()

• NetCDF ()

OnLine resource

World Ocean Database 2013 - Biology ( WWW:LINK )

OnLine resource

WOD13 ( WWW:LINK )

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/woa/WOD/DOC/wod_intro.pdf (Chapter 16)

Attribute description

observation

Content type

Physical measurement

Description

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File identifier

7cc374dc-2e76-45c0-974f-8af6eb8d6d1a XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Hierarchy level name

Atlantic - CH04 - Climate

Date stamp

2017-05-05T08:14:18Z

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115-3 - Emodnet Checkpoint - Upstream Data

Metadata standard version

1.0