The World Ocean Atlas 2018: Improvements and Uses of Climatological Mean Fields


Ricardo A Locarnini1, Olga Baranova2, Tim Boyer3, Hernan Eduardo Garcia4, Alexey V Mishonov5, Christopher Paver6, James R Reagan7, Dan Seidov8, Igor Smolyar2, Katharine Weathers9 and Melissa Zweng7, (1)National Oceanographic Data Center, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (2)National Centers for Environmental Information (formerly NODC), NESDIS/NOAA, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (3)NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI-MD, Silver Spring, United States, (4)NOAA/NODC, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (5)Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, United States, (6)National Centers for Environmental Information (formerly NODC), NESDIS/NOAA, Silver Spring, United States, (7)NOAA, Silver Spring, United States, (8)NOAA/NODC, Silver Spring, United States, (9)General Dynamics Information Technology Mississippi, Bay St. Louis, MS, United States