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    • COPEPOD: The Coastal & Oceanic Plankton Ecology, Production, & Observation Database

    Metadata Updated: May 24, 2025

    The Coastal & Oceanic Plankton Ecology, Production, & Observation Database (COPEPOD) provides NMFS scientists with quality-controlled, globally distributed plankton biomass, abundance, and composition data, along with other co-sampled physical, chemical, and biological oceanographic variables. COPEPOD provides in situ data along with spatial and temporal data products (i.e., high-resolution gridded mean fields and time series analyses), fulfilling the data needs of plankton scientists at a broad range of aggregations and resolutions (from individual species observations for taxonomists to global carbon fields for modelers).

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    License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Date May 15, 2025
    Metadata Created Date October 19, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date May 24, 2025
    Reference Date(s) 2014 (publication)
    Frequency Of Update monthly

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NMFS OST

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Date May 15, 2025
    Metadata Created Date October 19, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date May 24, 2025
    Reference Date(s) 2014 (publication)
    Responsible Party (Point of Contact, Custodian)
    Contact Email
    Guid gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:25610
    Access Constraints Cite As: NMFS Office of Science and Technology, [Date of Access]: COPEPOD: The Coastal & Oceanic Plankton Ecology, Production, & Observation Database [Data Date Range], https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/25610., Access Constraints: Data is publicly available, online., Use Constraints: Data users should cite COPEPOD and/or the individual data sets. Guidance is given at each download menu.
    Bbox East Long 180
    Bbox North Lat 90
    Bbox South Lat -78.5
    Bbox West Long -180
    Coupled Resource
    Frequency Of Update monthly
    Harvest Object Id 409bce4a-cf16-460e-9590-f123cb5f3c8e
    Harvest Source Id f9290d59-efab-4b58-a20f-a0e82126966c
    Harvest Source Title NMFS OST
    Licence NOAA provides no warranty, nor accepts any liability occurring from any incomplete, incorrect, or misleading data, or from any incorrect, incomplete, or misleading use of the data. It is the responsibility of the user to determine whether or not the data is suitable for the intended purpose.
    Lineage The data in COPEPOD come from a wide variety of historical and ongoing plankton cruises and projects. Each data sub-piece within COPEPOD contains a brief summary of that data piece's source and history.
    Metadata Language eng
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-180.0, -78.5], [180.0, -78.5], [180.0, 90.0], [-180.0, 90.0], [-180.0, -78.5]]]}
    Progress underDevelopment
    Spatial Data Service Type
    Spatial Reference System
    Spatial Harvester True
    Temporal Extent Begin 1913

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