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NODC Standard Product: Worldwide ocean water color / water transparency data (NCEI Accession 8900210)

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: October 04, 2025 | Last Modified: 2002-11-19T00:00:00.000+00:00

Data consists of worldwide ocean water color/transparency derived from NODC's ocean station data file from April 1901 to December 1985. The NODC Environmental Information Bulletin 87-1 (EIB 87-1, March 1987) contains a complete explanation of the data and their format.

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8900210 CHLOROPHYLL A DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER FLUORESCENCE LIGHT TRANSMISSION PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON PARTICULATE ORGANIC NITROGEN (PON) Secchi depth suspended solids WATER COLOR WATER TRANSPARENCY Secchi disk transmissometer visual observation optical visual observation US National Oceanographic Data Center US National Oceanographic Data Center World-Wide Distribution oceanography DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > CHLOROPHYLL EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > NITROGEN EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > ORGANIC CARBON EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > ORGANIC MATTER EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > SUSPENDED SOLIDS EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > FLUORESCENCE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > OCEAN COLOR EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > SECCHI DEPTH SECCHI DISKS > SECCHI DISKS TRANSMISSOMETERS VISUAL OBSERVATIONS > VISUAL OBSERVATIONS GEOGRAPHIC REGION > GLOBAL OCEAN

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describedByType	application/octet-steam
identifier	gov.noaa.nodc:8900210
issued	2002-11-19T00:00:00.000+00:00
landingPage	https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
language	[]
rights	otherRestrictions
spatial	0.0,0.0,-180.0,81.3
temporal	1901-04-04T00:00:00+00:00/1985-12-31T00:00:00+00:00

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