.. _dataset_dwl:


Datasets available to download
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To prepare surface and boundary conditions from 
climatological datasets you can use datasets from CROCO website:
https://www.croco-ocean.org/download/


These datasets contain the following products :

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**CARS2009**            | CSIRO Atlas of Regional Seas database. Annual, seasonal and monthly climatology 
                        | for temperature, salinity, nitrate, phosphate and oxygen
**COADS05**             Directory of the surface fluxes global monthly climatology at resolution (Da Silva et al., 1994)
**GSHHS**               | A Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Geography Database 
                        | :cite:p:`wessel_gshhs_1996`. Original data can be found at https://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/gshhg/
**GOT99.2**             | Atlas of the loading tide for M2 S2 N2 K2 K1 O1 P1 Q1
**QuikSCAT_clim**       QuickSCAT monthly climatology of wind stress
**RUNOFF_DAI**          | River discharge monthly climatology in :math:`m.s^{-3}` for the 925 largest rivers
                        | reaching the ocean (from Dai en Trenberth, 2000)
**SST_pathfinder**      | SST global monthly climatology at a finer resolution (9.28 km) than COADS05, computed
                        | from AVHRR-Pathfinder observations from 1985 to 1997 :cite:p:`casey_comparison_1999`
**SeaWifs**             Surface chlorophyll-a climatology based on SeaWifs observations
**TPX07**               Directory of the global model of ocean tides TPXO7 :cite:p:`egbert_efficient_2002`
**Topo**                | Location of the global topography dataset at 2° resolution :cite:p:`smith_global_1997`. 
                        | Original data can be found at: http://topex.ucsd.edu/cgi-bin/get_data.cgi
**WOA2009**             | World Ocean Atlas 2009 global datase
                        | References list: http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/WOA09/pubwoa09.html
**WOAPISCES**           | A global dataset for biogeochemical PISCES data (annual and seasonal climatology). 
                        | References are :
                        | Fe and DOC : :cite:t:`aumont_globalizing_2006`
                        | Si, O2, NO3, PO4 from WOA2005,
                        | DIC and Alkalinity come from Goyet et al.
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