Product III: Temperature and Salinity Monthly Fields

In the Arctic Region, the monthly fields were created by fitting the Winter and Summer PHC 2.1 fields to a cycloid-sinusoid function. Outside of the Arctic Region, the monthly fields mimic those found in NODC's WOA. Refer to the PHC 2.1 Overview and also the PHC 2.0 paper for more information about how we created the monthly fields.

     0    400    
    10    500   
    20    600    
    30    700    
    50    800    
    75    900    
   100   1000    
   125   1100    
   150   1200    
   200   1300
   250   1400
   300   1500

Specifics

• Our data fields are global, and are stored in 1X1 degree bins, exactly analogous to the WOA (i.e. Levitus) data structure (described in detail on the data download page).
  
• All of our temperature fields are in situ.
  
• Temperature is in units of Celsius, while salinity is parts per 1000

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