World Ocean Circulation Experiment

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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.  The WOCE was the largest internationally coordinated oceanographic program ever conducted.  WOCE's field phase ran between 1990 and 1998, and was followed by an analysis and modelling phase that ran until 2002.

The WOCE data set is the most comprehensive data set ever collected from the global ocean. The National Oceanographic Data Center provides access to the final version of the data set collected during the World Ocean Circulation Experiment.  http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/WOCE/

An electronic atlas of the WOCE Data is available from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany. http://www.ewoce.org/

 

 

 

 

 

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