World Ocean Circulation Experiment
Encyclopedia
The World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) was a component of the international World Climate Research Program, and aimed to establish the role of the World Ocean
in the Earth
's climate system
. WOCE's field phase ran between 1990 and 1998, and was followed by an analysis and modelling phase that ran until 2002.
World Ocean
The World Ocean, world ocean, or global ocean, is the interconnected system of the Earth's oceanic waters, and comprises the bulk of the hydrosphere, covering almost 71% of the Earth's surface, with a total volume of 1.332 billion cubic kilometres.The unity and continuity of the World Ocean, with...
in the Earth
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets...
's climate system
Climate
Climate encompasses the statistics of temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, rainfall, atmospheric particle count and other meteorological elemental measurements in a given region over long periods...
. WOCE's field phase ran between 1990 and 1998, and was followed by an analysis and modelling phase that ran until 2002.
External links
- Access page to the WOCE data legacy at the National Oceanographic Data CenterNational Oceanographic Data CenterThe National Oceanographic Data Center is one of the national environmental data centers operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The main NODC facility is located in Silver Spring, Maryland and is made up of five divisions...
(US) - Electronic Atlas of WOCE Data at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine ResearchAlfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine ResearchThe Alfred Wegener Institute of Polar and Marine Research is a scientific organization located in Bremerhaven, Germany. The institute was founded in 1980 and is named after revolutionary meteorologist climatologist, and geologist Alfred Wegener...
, Bremerhaven - WOCE page at the National Oceanography Centre, SouthamptonNational Oceanography Centre, SouthamptonThe National Oceanography Centre, Southampton describes the integrated collaboration between the Southampton-based part of the Natural Environment Research Council’s National Oceanography Centre, and University of Southampton Ocean and Earth Science...
(UK) - Searchable set of WOCE data, archived in the information system PANGAEA
- WOCE observations 1990-1998; a summary of the WOCE global data resource, WOCE International Project Office, WOCE Report No. 179/02., Southampton, UK. (pdf 18.9 MB)