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QuOTA Data

Thermal data from the QuOTA project are available in 5m bins in netcdf format, 2m bins by WMO squares and in a gridded format (described here). To access the datasets, fill in the form below and click submit.

Below are summary plots of the data types, locations and years of coverage.

 

 

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: a time-variable bias in the depth recorded by XBT's has been identified. We have not corrected the raw data in the QuOTA dataset. See Wijffels et al, J.Climate, 2007 for details on the bias.

 

                                                                                                                                             

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Color coded: BO; MBT/BT; CTD/CTDU ; XBT/XCTD/DT/DB; BA/TE/UN; ST/PF; MR/UO

 

 

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