{"url":"/dataset/xbt-snapshot","name":"XBT Snapshot","full_name":"XBT Snapshot from World Ocean Database","description_markdown":"The World Ocean Database (WOD) is world's largest collection of uniformly formatted, quality controlled, publicly available ocean profile data. This dataset is a snapshot of the XBT observations which have been preprocessed for use in a machine learning pipeline.\r\n\r\nThe data is organised by year in CSV files, covering 1966-2015. This dataset does not include the actual temperature and depth profiles, as this dataset was focused on a project to improve the metadata.\r\n\r\nLinks\r\n[World Ocean Database](https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/world-ocean-database )","description_withheld":null,"homepage":"https://zenodo.org/record/7390654#.Y4oQlOzP23I","introduced_date":null,"introduced_date_note":null,"introduced_by":null,"license":null,"modalities":[],"tasks":[],"languages":[],"variants":["XBT Snapshot"],"data_loaders":[],"num_papers_in_archive":1,"source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28"},"benchmarks":[],"papers_with_a_benchmark_row":[],"syntology_totals":{"read_at":"2026-09-24T18:15:14+00:00","papers_with_samples":0,"samples_harvested":0,"samples_ran":0,"samples_unverified":0,"pointer_only_for_licence":0,"papers_with_no_sample_that_ran":0,"note":"the per-paper counts above, summed; not a rate"},"papers_note":"The archive never published its papers-using-dataset list; these are papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks."}