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NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC)

World Ocean Atlas/Database

• Search & Retrieval System (WOD01)
• Files sorted by time or area (WOD01)
• Analyzed fields (WOA01)
• Searchable images (WOA01F)

Argo Daily Data

The Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Program

World Ocean Database 2001 Atlas Series Volume 3: Temporal Distribution of Conductivity/ Salinity-Temperature-Depth (Pressure) Casts (2 MB PDF)

World Ocean Database 2001 Atlas Series Volume 4: Temporal Distribution of Temperature, Salinity and Oxygen Profiles (23 MB PDF)

NOAA "Live Access Server"

• Live Access to the National Virtual Ocean Data System (NVODS) HINT: Type the word "salinity" into the "SEARCH" window
• Environmental Systems Science Center (ESSC) HINT: Click on the "+" signs in the lefthand menu to find salinity data sets

NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory: Realtime PIRATA (Pilot Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic) Salinity Data (Data are received daily via satellite from ATLAS buoys)

U.S. Geological Survey: South Florida Information Access (SOFIA) (SOFIA provides information in support for the South Florida ecosystem restoration effort)

University of Miami / Royal Caribbean Explorer of the Seas (All data collected aboard the Explorer of the Seas are freely available to any registered user for scientific research)

NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center: Ocean Climate Laboratory

• 36-year time series (1963 - 1998) of Zooplankton, Temperature, and Salinity in the White Sea (In this study, the influence of long-term salinity-and-temperature variations on the plankton community is examined) Salinity and temperature graphs over time (e.g., climatology, years with positive salinity or temperature anomalies, etc.)
• Biologicial Atlas of the Arctic Seas 2000: Plankton of the Barents and Kara Seas Physical and biological data from the Barents and Kara Seas during 158 scientific cruises for the period 1913-1999) Salinity and temperature maps (surface and 100 meters depth)
• Hydrochemcial Atlas of the Sea of Okhotsk (Data maps from the Sea of Okhotsk during the 1990 - 1997 period for the months of June - August) Salinity, temperature, and various chemistry maps (surface and four depths)
• Observation network of the Barents Sea (The time and space distribution of 74,256 ocean stations (temperature, salinity, and oxygen) occupied in the Barents Sea during 1898) Monthly averaged salinity and temperature maps (surface and four depths)

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory "Live Access to Our Ocean"

• U.S. West Coast Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) and Surface salinity, temperature, currents and height maps (nowcasts, 1-day forecasts, and archives)
• Central California Coast Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) and Surface salinity, temperature, currents, height, winds, plankton, and various chemsitry maps
• Monterey Bay Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS): Surface salinity, temperature, winds, currents and height maps (various depths)