ESSIC/CISESS scientist Alexey Mishonov is one of the authors of the newly released World Ocean Atlas 2023. The World Ocean Atlas 2023 (WOA23) is a set of temperature, salinity, oxygen, phosphate, silicate, and nitrate means based on profile data from the World Ocean Database (WOD), which includes approximately 1.8 million new oceanographic casts added since previous release as well as employs a renewed and updated quality controls. Within the WOA23, the temperature and salinity field are compiled on 1 and 1/4-degree horizontal latitude-longitude grids for seven individual decadal climatologies (1955–1964 through 2015–2022), three climate normals (1971–2000, 1981–2010, and 1991–2020), and a 1955–2022 decadal average. Dissolved oxygen and Nutrients climatologies compiled on 1-degree latitude-longitude grid. The World Ocean Atlas can be used to set the boundaries and/or initial conditions for a variety of ocean models, verify numerical simulations of the ocean, and corroborate satellite data.
Mishonov is a researcher with extensive experience in various fields of oceanography, including ocean color, water transmissivity and particulate organic carbon study, oceanographic data management, analysis, and climate research.
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