Research Catalog

Title

World ocean atlas 2001. Volume 5, Plankton / Todd D. O'Brien [and others] ; editor, Sydney Levitus ; National Oceanographic Data Center, Ocean Climate Laboratory.

Author

National Oceanographic Data Center (U.S.). Ocean Climate Laboratory.

Publication

Silver Spring, Md. : U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, 2002.

Supplementary Content

Data available online

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• O'Brien, Todd D.
• Levitus, Sydney.
• United States. National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service.

Description

1 atlas (viii, 89 pages) : maps; 28 cm.

Summary

This atlas contains maps of the distribution of "World Ocean Database 2001" plankton taxonomic groups and biomasses on a one-degree grid. Maps for all-data annual and seasonal compositing periods are presented for bacterioplankton, phytoplankton, protist plankton, zooplankton, and plankton biomass. All-data annual maps are also presented for selected taxonomic sub-groups within these major categories. Unanalyzed mean fields of annual zooplankton biomass and annual and seasonal calculated zooplankton carbon mass are provided.

Series Statement

NOAA atlas NESDIS ; 53

Uniform Title

NOAA atlas NESDIS ; 53.

Alternative Title

• Plankton
• WOA01

Subjects

• Marine phytoplankton > Geographical distribution > Atlases
• Marine biology > Atlases
• Oceanography > Atlases
• Marine plankton > Geographical distribution > Atlases
• Marine zooplankton > Geographical distribution > Atlases

Note

• "May 2002."
• "The oceanographic analyses described by this atlas series expand on earlier works, e.g. the World Ocean Atlas 1998 (WOA98), World Ocean Atlas 1994 (WOA94) and Climatological Atlas of the World Ocean"--Pref.
• Included data also available online from Ocean Climate Laboratory Web site via National Oceanographic Data Center home page called: World ocean atlas 2001: on-line objective analyses and statistics, at: http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/WOA01/woa01dat.html, or via ftp directory at: ftp://ftp.nodc.noaa.gov/pub/WOA01/plankton.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 6).

Issued By (note)

• Issued by: National Oceanographic Data Center, Ocean Climate Laboratory.

OCLC

• ocm50551364
• SCSB-5186224

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries