Version 5.0g
The
World-wide Ocean Optics Database (WOOD)
Since its inception over 10 years ago, the WOOD has grown to be the most comprehensive publicly-available oceanographic
bio-optical database in the world. It includes nearly 250 major data sources (including NASA’s public portions of SeaBASS
and NODC’s World Ocean Dataset optics and chlorophyll profiles) and provides over 40 derived and measured physical
properties, including Inherent and Apparent Optical Properties (IOPs and AOPs), pigments and nutrients, Secchi depths,
and temperature and salinity. The data have been converted to a common data format, loaded into a relational database,
and made available at http://wood.jhuapl.edu. Users can search by parameter name, location, date, wavelength, and water
depth. A Java-based GUI allows users to make color-coded profile plots, depth “slices,” and corresponding color-coded
maps of data locations. The user also can perform on-the-fly wavelength conversions from measured wavelengths to a
user-selected output wavelength.
The WOOD presently contains hundreds of thousands of bio-optical oceanographic data. It is funded by Dr. Steve Ackleson
(ONR Code 322 OP). Contributions have been received from hundreds of scientists, universities, and research agencies.
For example, Oscar Schofield at Rutgers University, Heidi Sosik at Woods Hole Institute of Oceanography, and Greg
Mitchell at Scripps Institute of Oceanography are a few of the many scientists who have provided substantial datasets to
the WOOD.
Since its inception over 10 years ago, the WOOD has grown to be the most comprehensive publicly-available oceanographic
bio-optical database in the world. It includes nearly 250 major data sources (including NASA’s public portions of SeaBASS
and NODC’s World Ocean Dataset optics and chlorophyll profiles) and provides over 40 derived and measured physical
properties, including Inherent and Apparent Optical Properties (IOPs and AOPs), pigments and nutrients, Secchi depths,
and temperature and salinity. The data have been converted to a common data format, loaded into a relational database,
and made available at http://wood.jhuapl.edu. Users can search by parameter name, location, date, wavelength, and water
depth. A Java-based GUI allows users to make color-coded profile plots, depth “slices,” and corresponding color-coded
maps of data locations. The user also can perform on-the-fly wavelength conversions from measured wavelengths to a
user-selected output wavelength.
The WOOD presently contains hundreds of thousands of bio-optical oceanographic data. It is funded by Dr. Steve Ackleson
(ONR Code 322 OP). Contributions have been received from hundreds of scientists, universities, and research agencies.
For example, Oscar Schofield at Rutgers University, Heidi Sosik at Woods Hole Institute of Oceanography, and Greg
Mitchell at Scripps Institute of Oceanography are a few of the many scientists who have provided substantial datasets to
the WOOD.
- User's Guide for WOODv4.5
- Dowload theUser's Guide: <WORD> <PDF>
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