Levitus, S., 1982: Climatological Atlas of the World Ocean, NOAA Professional Paper 13, 173 pp.

Abstract: This atlas contains maps of objectively analyzed fields of temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, and percent oxygen-saturation at standard oceanographic observation levels on a one-degree latitude-longitude grid for the world ocean. Maps of derived quantities such as geopotential thickness, Brunt-Väisälä frequency, and mixed-layer depths are also presented. The sources of data used in preparation of the atlas were the Station Data, Mechanical Bathythermograph, and Expendable Bathythermograph files of the National Oceanographic Data Center, Washington, D.C. Meridional cross-sections of the zonal averages of the objectively analyzed data are presented both in the form of figures and tables. Statistics on the number of observations, mean, and root-mean-square deviation of temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, percent oxygen-saturation, potential density, and specific volume on a five-degree grid are presented in the microfiche section of this atlas. Some discussion of the major oceanographic features observed in the various fields is given.