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The World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) was a component of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) and remains the most ambitious oceanographic experiment undertaken to-date.The aims of the program were to establish the role of the oceans in the earth's climate and to obtain a baseline dataset against which future change could be assessed. Information on the WOCE dataset can be found here.

The following table below links to the corresponding Potential Temperature and Salinity cross sections for Global RTOFS and WOCE. Red WOCE links indicate that the WOCE graphics for that section include Temperature/Salinity/Depth profiles as well.

Schlitzer, R., Electronic Atlas of WOCE Hydrographic and Tracer Data Now Available, Eos Trans. AGU, 81(5), 45, 2000.