New World Atlas

[Sean Vaidhyanathan]

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Welcome! Meet our NCS World Atlas. This online tool developed by Nature4Climate with support from The Nature Conservancy demonstrates opportunities for countries around the world to view how natural climate solutions (NCS) alongside emission reduction strategies, can help them reduce their net greenhouse gas emissions. NCS are effectively a subset of nature-based solutions geared toward climate change mitigation.

eWAVE 3.0 comprises an additional variety of English, i.e. Croker Island English, and thus counts 77 Englishes spoken around the world. It is the largest available database of English varieties up to date.

eWAVE 3.0 includes new bibliographic references and examples. Some values for the various morphosyntactic features have been updated based on a survey among the 84 eWAVE contributors, directed by Bernd Kortmann and Katharina Ehret. Most notably, there have been substantial changes in the feature ratings of Kenyan English.

The new version of eWAVE also contains Glottocodes for 65 of the 77 varieties based on the classification of Glottolog 4.2.1. These codes serve as unique and persistent identifiers and may facilitate computational matching and retrieval of specific varieties, also across different databases. However, in some cases, in particular for dialects of English, an exact one-to-one match between eWAVE varieties and the Glottolog classification was not possible.

eWAVE was designed and compiled at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) and the English Department of the University of Freiburg, Germany, primarily between 2008 and 2011, when it was first released. Release 2.0 (November 2013) was substantially updated and extended. eWAVE is an interactive database on morphosyntactic variation in spontaneous spoken English mapping 235 features from a dozen domains of grammar in now 51 varieties of English (traditional dialects, high-contact mother-tongue Englishes, and indigenized second-language Englishes) and 26 English-based Pidgins and Creoles in eight Anglophone world regions (Africa, Asia, Australia, British Isles, Caribbean, North America, Pacific, and the South Atlantic; see here for a list). It was compiled from descriptive materials, naturalistic corpus data, and native speaker knowledge by a team of 84 contributors, all leading experts in their fields, directed by Bernd Kortmann and Kerstin Lunkenheimer. eWAVE is unique not only in its coverage and user-friendliness, but also in being an open access resource. As such it has the potential for serving both as a teaching tool in academic teaching around the world and as an indispensable research tool for specialists in many different fields of linguistics, including creolistics, dialectology, dialect syntax, language change, language typology, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, and the study of World Englishes and learner Englishes.

In January 2013 De Gruyter Mouton published in print the Mouton World Atlas of Variation of English, which offers perspectivizing accounts of the data sets in eWAVE as well as large-scale comparisons and synopses across the individual variety types and Anglophone world regions. Read more here .

The information required to answer questions of this kind can be found in the central parts of eWAVE: the varieties index, the features index, and the individual variety and feature profiles. These combine searchable catalogues of varieties and of morphosyntactic features with interactive maps, and allow you to explore in detail the distribution of features within and across varieties of English and English-based Pidgins and Creoles worldwide. Ultimately, the information provided in eWAVE can also be used for the investigation of more general questions, such as the following: Which features generally are characteristic of a particular variety type (e.g. L2 varieties)? In which domain of grammar is there most/least heterogeneity/homogeneity among varieties of English worldwide? Are English-based pidgins and creoles as a group significantly different from other varieties in terms of morphosyntax?

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The World Ocean Atlas 2023 Dissolved Oxygen, Apparent Oxygen Utilization, and Dissolved Oxygen Saturation version 1.0 (released Feb. 2024) has been updated to version 1.1 as of May 30, 2024. A small change to the profiling float O2 data adjustment was made to allow for internal consistency with other independent types of O2 observations.

The World Ocean Atlas (WOA) is a collection of objectively analyzed, quality controlled temperature, salinity, oxygen, phosphate, silicate, and nitrate means based on profile data from the World Ocean Database (WOD). It can be used to create boundary and/or initial conditions for a variety of ocean models, verify numerical simulations of the ocean, and corroborate satellite data.

A new version of the WOA is released in conjunction with each major update to the WOD, the largest collection of publically available, uniformly formatted, quality controlled subsurface ocean profile data in the world.

A "normal" is defined by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) as the 30-year average of data for a particular variable, calculated for a uniform time period. Normals provide long-term means for initializing models, environmental studies, checking in situ observations, etc.

Normals establish a baseline that can help researchers determine whether or not current observations are within the statistical norm in the context of the most recent 30-year climatological background.

analysis.for

FORTRAN program to print out a 10x10 degree latitude-longitude area from a user requested file

analysis.c

C program to print out a 10x10 degree latitude-longitude area from a user requested file

analysis.exe

DOS executable version of the "analysis.for" program

analysis_64.exe

64 bit executable version of the "analysis.for" program

anlyxyz.for

FORTRAN program which writes the entire 360x180 degree latitude-longitude grid into a comma-separated-value output file

anlyxyz_64.exe

64 bit executable version of the "anlyxyz.for" program

WOA 2018WOA18 was released September 30, 2018. It includes approximately 3 million new oceanographic casts added to the WOD, as well as renewed and updated quality control. The WOA18 temperature and salinity fields were released preliminarily to crowd source quality assurance from the WOA user community, which has successfully identified suspect features in previous releases.

WOA 2013World Ocean Atlas 2013 version 2 (WOA13 V2) contains objectively analyzed 1 climatological fields of in situ temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, Apparent Oxygen Utilization (AOU), percent oxygen saturation, phosphate, silicate, and nitrate at standard depth levels for annual, seasonal, and monthly compositing periods for the World Ocean. It also includes associated statistical fields of observed oceanographic profile data interpolated to standard depth levels on 5, 1, and 0.25 grids.

WOA 2009World Ocean Atlas 2009 (WOA09) is a set of objectively analyzed (1 grid) climatological fields of in situ temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, Apparent Oxygen Utilization (AOU), percent oxygen saturation, phosphate, silicate, and nitrate at standard depth levels for annual, seasonal, and monthly compositing periods for the World Ocean. It also includes associated statistical fields of observed oceanographic profile data interpolated to standard depth levels on both 1 and 5 grids.

Cite as: Levitus, Sydney; US DOC/NOAA/NESDIS > National Oceanographic Data Center (2013). NODC Standard Product: World Ocean Atlas 2009 (NCEI Accession 0094866). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. -page/bin/iso?id=gov.noaa.nodc:0094866. Accessed [date].

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