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Add new dataset WOA09

New Dataset WOA09

This is a proposal for adding the following new dataset to git.geomar.de/data:

Data Set Details

Please, fill in the details for the proposed data set:

Short Name

      WOA09

Short Description

      World Ocean Atlas 2009 Data in NetCDF format

Provider URL/ Data Set Homepage

      https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/WOA09/pr_woa09.html, https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/WOA09/netcdf_data.html

Download URL(s)

      https://data.nodc.noaa.gov/thredds/catalog/woa09/catalog.html

Reference Documentation


      see https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/WOA09/pubwoa09.html


      Temperature: Locarnini, R. A., A. V. Mishonov, J. I. Antonov, T. P. Boyer, H. E. Garcia, O. K. Baranova, M. M. Zweng, and D. R. Johnson, 2010. World Ocean Atlas 2009, Volume 1: Temperature. S. Levitus, Ed. NOAA Atlas NESDIS 68, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 184 pp.

      Salinity: Antonov, J. I., D. Seidov, T. P. Boyer, R. A. Locarnini, A. V. Mishonov, H. E. Garcia, O. K. Baranova, M. M. Zweng, and D. R. Johnson, 2010. World Ocean Atlas 2009, Volume 2: Salinity. S. Levitus, Ed. NOAA Atlas NESDIS 69, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 184 pp.

      Oxygen: Garcia, H. E., R. A. Locarnini, T. P. Boyer, J. I. Antonov, O. K. Baranova, M. M. Zweng, and D. R. Johnson, 2010. World Ocean Atlas 2009, Volume 3: Dissolved Oxygen, Apparent Oxygen Utilization, and Oxygen Saturation. S. Levitus, Ed. NOAA Atlas NESDIS 70, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 344 pp.

      Nutrients: Garcia, H. E., R. A. Locarnini, T. P. Boyer, J. I. Antonov, M. M. Zweng, O. K. Baranova, and D. R. Johnson, 2010. World Ocean Atlas 2009, Volume 4: Nutrients (phosphate, nitrate, silicate). S. Levitus, Ed. NOAA Atlas NESDIS 71, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 398 pp.

Person in Charge

      mscheinert@geomar.de, just so, because I'm the one who asks to add this data set

Comments or Recommendations

      I know, there are newer data sets for the WOA, like WOA13 and the preliminary WOA18! 
But WOA09 uses some certain grid that is used for Model-Intercomparison-Project-output, 
like the CMIP6-OMIP (especially the grid from the ANNUAL MEAN files). 
And the URL for the data sets are not persistent since NOAA changes them from time to time. 
So, it might be a good idea to have a local backup of this data.

 

Rendering Checklist

Whoever will be assigned to this issue, they can use the following checklist to go through the process of rendering the data-set step by step.

DSET="Void-data"                           # replace 'Void-data' with short name given above
  • Data Set Details are complete

  • GIT-Project is created under https://git.geomar.de/data/$DSET (create new data/ project)

  • data_repo_renderer is installed (web, git+ssh)

  • control folder created, e.g.

    ```shell
    mkdir -p ~/data_repo/$DSET
    ```
  • meta.yaml edited appropriately (e.g. copy template from snippet $66 (download)

    ```shell
    vi ~/data_repo/$DSET/meta.yaml
    ```
  • data_repo_renderer ran successfully

    ```shell
    ZSTORE=path_with_enough_space
    data_repo_renderer --prefix $ZSTORE/$DSET ~/data_repo/$DSET/meta.yaml
    ```
  • ./init.sh ran successfully

    ```shell
    cd $ZSTORE/$DSET
    ./init.sh
    ```
  • ./update.sh ran successfully

    ```shell
    ./update.sh
    ```
  • The master branch is replaced with v1.x.x

  • The latest v?.x.x is set to default branch

  • The data repository is added to data/tools/inventory