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The World Ocean Database represents the world’s largest collection of ocean profile-plankton data available internationally without restriction. Data comes from the: (a) 65 National Oceanographic Data Centers and nine Designated National Agencies (DNAs) (in Croatia, Finland, Georgia, Malaysia, Romania, Senegal, Sweden, Tanzania, and Ukraine), (b) International Ocean Observing Projects such as historical [[WOCE|World Ocean Circulation Experiment]] (WOCE) and Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS), as well as currently active programs such as [[CLIVAR]] and Argo, (c) International Ocean Data Management Projects such as the IOC/IODE Global Oceanographic Data Archaeology and Rescue Project (GODAR), and (d) Real-time Ocean Observing Systems such as the IOC/IODE [[Global_Temperature-Salinity_Profile_Program|Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Project]] (GTSPP). All ocean data acquired by WDC Silver Spring – USA are considered as part of the WDC archive and freely available as public ___domain data.

==Comparison of World Ocean Databases==

The World Ocean Database was first released in 1994<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/indpub.html#World%20Ocean%20Atlas%201994 |title=World Ocean Atlas 1994 series |accessdate=2008-10-22 |publisher=[[National Oceanographic Data Center]] |date=2008-08-29 }}</ref> and updates have been released approximately every four years, 1998<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/indpub.html#World%20Ocean%20Atlas%201998 |title=World Ocean Atlas 1998 series |accessdate=2008-10-22 |publisher=[[National Oceanographic Data Center]] |date=2008-08-29 }}</ref>, 2001<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/WOA01/pr_woa01.html |title=World Ocean Atlas 2001 |accessdate=2008-10-22 |publisher=[[National Oceanographic Data Center]] |date=2007-10-04 }}</ref>, and 2005<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/WOA05/pr_woa05.html |title=World Ocean Atlas 2005 |accessdate=2008-10-22 |publisher=[[National Oceanographic Data Center]] |date=2007-09-12 }}</ref>. The most recent World Ocean Database series, WOD09 was released in September 2009<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/WOA09/pr_woa09.html |title=World Ocean Atlas 2009 |accessdate=2010-05-19 |publisher=[[National Oceanographic Data Center]] |date=2010-03-30 }}</ref>. The WOD09 has more than 9 million temperature profiles and 3.6 million salinity profiles. TableThe 1.0table isshows a comparison of the number of stations by instrument type in WOD09 with previous NODC/WDC global ocean databases.

==Table 1.0 Comparison of the amount of data in WOD09 with previous ocean databases==

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