Acknowledgments

NOAA-NCEI-WOD, ARGO program, and TAO project are greatly acknowledged for taking measurements, collecting and qualifying the in-situ datasets of ocean temperature and salinity profiles. Those data are the essential and basic materials from which we could compute ocean variables and construct climatologies and other elaborated products made available on this web site.

We are thankfull to Ifremer, and to the LOPS laboratory (Ifremer, Univ. of Brest-UBO, Cnrs, Ird), for mainly funding this work.

Thank you to D. Morize (aka Duto Fujamee), who developped the design of the website (best for Mozilla Firefox) during his computer science Master internship. Thanks also to S. Brachet for her many advices and readings which contributed to improve those pages. Great thanks to all the colleagues who helped a lot in the generation, improvment, valorisation of those data through technical exchanges, discussions and publications. Their name can be found in the authors lists of the references section.