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Roach and Bindoff Global Temperature, Salinity and Oxygen Atlas (Shipboard Data 1955-2018) V1.0

This atlas uses all of the available full water column profiles of oxygen, salinity and temperature available as part of the World Ocean Atlas released in 2018. Instead of optimal interpolation we use the Data Interpolating Variational Analysis (DIVA) approach to map the available profiles onto 108 depth levels between the surface and 6800 m, covering more than 99% of ocean volume. This 1/2° x 1/2° degree atlas covers the period 1955 to 2018 in 1 year intervals. The DIVA method has significant benefits over traditional optimal interpolation. It allows the explicit inclusion of advection and boundary constraints thus offering improvements in the representations of oxygen, salinity and temperature in regions of strong flow and near coastal boundaries. We demonstrate these benefits of this mapping approach with some examples from this atlas. We can explore the regional and temporal variations of oxygen in the global oceans. Preliminary analyses confirm earlier analyses that the oxygen minimum zone in the eastern Pacific Ocean has expanded and intensified. Oxygen inventory changes between 1970 and 2010 are assessed and compared against prior studies. We find that the full ocean oxygen inventory decreased by 0.84% ± 0.42%. For this period temperature driven solubility changes explain about 21% of the oxygen decline over the full water column, in the upper 100 m solubility changes can explain all of the oxygen decrease, for the 100-600 m depth range it can explain only 29%, 19% between 600 m and 1000 m, and just 11% in the deep ocean.

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Identification info

Date (Publication)
2023-06-28T00:00:00
Citation identifier
doi:10.25959/HK4Q-B239

Title
Information and documentation - Digital object identifier system
Date (Publication)
2023-06-28
Citation identifier
ISO 26324:2012

Citation identifier
https://doi.org/10.25959/HK4Q-B239

Resource provider

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS)
Private Bag 129
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia

Author

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS) - Roach, Christopher
Private Bag 129
Hobart
TAS
7001
Australia
ORCID ID >

Collaborator

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS) - Bindoff, Nathaniel
Private Bag 129
Hobart
TAS
7001
Australia
ORCID ID >

Status
On going

Author

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS) - Roach, Christopher
Hobart
TAS
7001
Australia
ORCID ID >

Collaborator

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS) - Bindoff, Nathaniel
Hobart
TAS
7001
Australia
ORCID ID >

Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
  • Oceans

Extent

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Temporal extent

Time period
1950-01-01

Vertical element

Minimum value
0
Maximum value
6100
Identifier
EPSG::5715
Name
MSL depth
Maintenance and update frequency
Annually
Keywords (Theme)
  • climatology
  • atlas
Global Change Master Directory Earth Science Keywords, Version 8.5
  • EARTH SCIENCE | OCEANS | OCEAN CHEMISTRY | OXYGEN
  • EARTH SCIENCE | OCEANS | OCEAN TEMPERATURE
  • EARTH SCIENCE | OCEANS | SALINITY/DENSITY
AODN Platform Vocabulary
  • ship
AODN Discovery Parameter Vocabulary
  • Concentration of oxygen {O2} per unit volume of the water body
  • Practical salinity of the water body
  • Temperature anomaly of the water body
AODN Geographic Extents Vocabulary
  • Global / Oceans | Global / Oceans | World

Resource constraints

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Data, products and services from IMAS are provided "as is" without any warranty as to fitness for a particular purpose.

Resource constraints

Other constraints
This dataset is the intellectual property of the University of Tasmania (UTAS) through the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS).

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Linkage
https://licensebuttons.net/l/by/4.0/88x31.png

License Graphic

Title
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Alternate title
CC-BY
Edition
4.0


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Website
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

License Text

Other constraints
Cite data as: Roach, C., & Bindoff, N. (2023). Roach and Bindoff Global Temperature, Salinity and Oxygen Atlas (Shipboard Data 1955-2018) V1.0 [Data set]. Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS). https://doi.org/10.25959/HK4Q-B239
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Supplemental Information
Roach, C. J., and N. L. Bindoff, 2023: Developing a New Oxygen Atlas of the World’s Oceans Using Data Interpolating Variational Analysis. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 40, 1475–1491, https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-23-0007.1.

Content Information

Content type
Physical measurement

Identifier

Code
Concentration of oxygen {O2} per unit volume of the water body
Identifier
http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/KGUM
Name
Micromoles per kilogram

Identifier

Code
Practical salinity of the water body
Identifier
http://vocab.aodn.org.au/def/unitsofmeasure/entity/481
Name
Practical Salinity Unit

Identifier

Code
Temperature anomaly of the water body
Identifier
http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UPAA
Name
Degrees Celsius

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • NetCDF

OnLine resource
DATA ACCESS - Browse and download data via IMAS THREDDS server

OnLine resource
DATA ACCESS - direct download all Oxygen Atlas data [.zip 14.5 GB]

Resource lineage

Statement
We combine shipboard temperature, salinity and oxygen profiles sourced from the World Ocean Database 2018 with 40 year mean velocities from the CMCC Historical Ocean Reanalysis using Data Interpolating Variational Analysis. This methodology produces gridded tracer fields subject to: length scales of 500 km zonally and 250 km meridionally and a timescale of 2.5 years; boundary constraints (coastlines, bathymetery on a depth level) and advection constraints (the velocity fields, resulting in enhanced spread of correlation along flow paths and suppressed spread of correlation across dynamical barriers). This analysis was conducted on independently on 108 vertical layers. On each layer the analysis was conducted as a series of overlapping 11-year windows (due to compute constraints) with the center 5 years of each window retained and the 3 years at each end discarded due to boundary effects. See: Roach, C. J., and N. L. Bindoff, 2023: Developing a New Oxygen Atlas of the World’s Oceans Using Data Interpolating Variational Analysis. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 40, 1475–1491, https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-23-0007.1.
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Dataset
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/aef9f21a-c60f-46c0-84a0-76fe541180fa

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distributor

IMAS Data Manager - Data Officer
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies
Private Bag 129
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) website >

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Name
IMAS Dataset level record
Metadata linkage
https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/aef9f21a-c60f-46c0-84a0-76fe541180fa

Point of truth URL of this metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2023-06-28T00:00:00
Date info (Revision)
2023-12-07T16:58:37

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3:2018
 
 

Overviews

Spatial extent

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Keywords

atlas climatology
AODN Discovery Parameter Vocabulary
Concentration of oxygen {O2} per unit volume of the water body Practical salinity of the water body Temperature anomaly of the water body
AODN Platform Vocabulary
ship
Global Change Master Directory Earth Science Keywords, Version 8.5
EARTH SCIENCE | OCEANS | OCEAN CHEMISTRY | OXYGEN EARTH SCIENCE | OCEANS | OCEAN TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE | OCEANS | SALINITY/DENSITY

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