Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) data from the World Ocean Database 2005 (WOD05) collection in netcdf format

Brief description

World Ocean Database 2005 (WOD05) is a scientifically quality-controlled database of selected historical in situ surface and subsurface oceanographic measurements produced by the Ocean Climate Laboratory (OCL) at the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. WOD05 updates and expands on the earlier version, World Ocean Database 2001 (WOD01), by including new variables and datasets. WOD05 was created to provide the full set of data and quality control procedures used to calculate climatologies of temperature, salinity, oxygen, phosphate, silicate, and nitrate to produce World Ocean Atlas 2005 (WOA05). This dataset includes the data collected by XBT probes, the original data have been translated to yearly netcdf files.